| 老歌新唱(巴哈/拉素士/舒茲/麥克米蘭) 烏鴉合唱團 佛里歐薩克斯風四重奏 克勞利 指揮 Following its previous album Evoke, with the pianist Timothy End, the Ferio Saxophone Quartet returns with this exciting and innovative programme of works for saxophone quartet and voices. Founded and directed by Freddie Crowley, the Corvus Consort is a vocal ensemble based in the UK, which draws its members from a pool of young singers in the early stages of their professional careers. The project was inspired by the Quartet's 2018 recording, Revive, an album of baroque transcriptions. Freddie Crowley writes: 'Heinrich Schutz in the preface to his Geistliche Chor-Music, of 1648 (from which four of the items on this album are drawn) wrote: “You can perform some of these pieces [...] with an organ or instruments on the choral parts along with a full choir.” The instruments he had in mind were not saxophones, of course, which would not be invented for another 200 years, but I suspect that he might have found them an excellent choice! Schutz intended his collection to be a demonstration of good composition without basso continuo, focussing on counterpoint as the foundation of compositional technique. It is these contrapuntal properties that make his and other baroque and Renaissance music so infinitely adaptable into new forms – transitioning effortlessly onto the saxophone, for example – and the same properties that underpin the four contemporary works on our album, all inspired in their own different ways by music of the Renaissance. ![]() |
| HEINRICH SCHUTZ
1. Ich weiB, daB mein Erloser lebt, SWV 393 2:36 ANDREA GABRIELI 2. O salutaris hostia 2:53 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 3. Zion hort die Wachter singen 4:11 OWAIN PARK 4. Miserere after Allegri 7:59 GIOVANNI GABRIELI 5. O magnum mysterium, C 3 3:25 JOHANN MICHAEL BACH 6. Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil 4:35 7. Ich weiB, daB mein Erloser lebt 2:06 JAMES MACMILLAN 8. Christus vincit 6:08 HEINRICH SCHUTZ 9. Das Wort ward Fleisch und wohnet unter uns, SWV 385 3:26 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 10. Weil du mein Gott und Vater bist 1:49 Chorale for SATB, four-part choir, two oboes d''amore, two violins, viola, and basso continuo from Warum betrubst du dich, mein Herz?, BWV 138 (1723) Arranged 2021 by Freddie Crowley for SATB and saxophone quartet HEINRICH SCHUTZ 11. Selig sind die Toten, SWV 391 4:04 RODERICK WILLIAMS 12. Ave verum corpus re-imagined 5:09 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 13. Nun ich weiB, du wirst mir stillen 1:31 HEINRICH SCHUTZ 14. Was mein Gott will, das g''scheh'' allzeit, SWV 392 3:51 Motet for AT, four instruments, and basso continuo from Musicalia ad chorum sacrum, das ist: Geistliche Chor-Music... erster Theil, Op.11 (Dresden, 1648) Trasncribed 2021 by Freddie Crowley for AT and saxophone quartet ORLANDE DE LASSUS 15. Aurora lucis rutilat 4:11 SARAH RIMKUS 16. Mater Dei 5:51 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 17. Jesus bleibet meine Freude 2:37 Total time: 66:22 |