Old Venetian Masters and Their German Contemporaries
A. Willaert, G. Zarlino, A. Gabrieli, H. L. Haßler, H. Schütz

SINGER PUR (Germany)
Claudia Reinhard – soprano
Rüdiger Ballhorn, Markus Zapp, Manuel Warwitz – tenor 
Reiner Schneider-Waterberg – baritone
Marcus Schmidl – bass

 

Human voices interlacing in mutual harmony – we would hardly find a more beautiful image of an ideal arrangement of our world. Of all those who have tried, it was the Venetian maestri di cappella – choirmasters Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore, and Gioseffo Zarlino – who have come perhaps the closest to achieving this ideal. Their art, in turn, inspired musicians from beyond the Alps, such as Hans Leo Hassler, Thomas Stoltzer, or Heinrich Schütz. Members of the prominent German ensemble Singer Pur will give voice to those lasting musical longings, assisted in their endeavor by St Agnes of Bohemia (in whose cloister the concert takes place), but also by St Mark whose influence is so closely connected with the glory of the Serene Republic of Venice, called “La Serenissima” for short.