Altera Luce by Currentes

Various composers

Currentes

Altera Luce

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Lawo Classics
UPC: 7090020181547
Catnr: LWC 1132
Release date: 08 December 2017
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Label
Lawo Classics

UPC
7090020181547

Catalogue number
LWC 1132

Release date
08 December 2017

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About the album

TIMELESS LOVE
If the world is brimming over with anything, then it is love songs lasting three to five minutes. Nevertheless, Currentes is adding a new collection to this evergrowing number. Why? Well, we believe we can offer something new. Virtually all of these beautiful songs, written when the rhyme moon/June was first conceived, are essentially unknown to today’s listeners.

Those who may already know some of the songs will nonetheless enjoy these creative new Currentes arrangements and instrumentations. And for those who thought that the piano was an eighteenth-century invention, we offer a curiosity: there was a late medieval clavichord with metal tangents, and the ensemble’s keyboardist, David Catalunya, has had such a piano reinvented, based on drawings and descriptions from the 1400s. This is the first album to use such an instrument.

In addition to the lovely songs from the past, we are especially proud of the totally new songs that Eivind Buene has written for Currentes. His imaginative miniatures for medieval ensemble are recorded here for the first time.

Currentes was founded by its artistic director, Jostein Gundersen, in 2006. Currentes defines its artistic goals as within the field of historically informed performance, while specialising in polyphonic music from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Eivind Buene (b. 1974) is a graduate of the prestigious Norwegian Artistic Research Programme. He has received commissions from foremost ensembles in Norway and abroad. He is an instrumentalist, singer, arranger and composer of different styles, as well as novelist and essayist.

Wenn die Welt von etwas nur so überflutet wird, dann sind das Liebeslieder von drei bis fünf Minuten. Dennoch fügt Currentes dieser ständig wachsenden Zahl eine neue Kollektion hinzu. Warum? Wir glauben, dass wir etwas Neues anbieten können. Praktisch all diese wunderschönen Lieder, die geschrieben wurden, als der Reim Mond/Juni zum ersten Mal erfunden wurde, sind den heutigen Zuhörern weitgehend unbekannt.
Wer einige der Songs bereits kennt, wird trotzdem die kreativen neuen Currentes Arrangements und Instrumentierungen genießen. Und für diejenigen, die dachten, das Klavier sei eine Erfindung des 18. Jahrhunderts, bieten wir eine Kuriosität: es gab ein spätmittelalterliches Clavichord mit Metalltangenten und der Keyboarder des Ensembles, David Catalunya, hat ein solches Klavier neu erfunden, basierend auf Zeichnungen und Beschreibungen aus dem 14. Jahrhundert. Dies ist das erste Album mit der Verwendung eines solchen Instruments.
Neben den schönen Liedern aus der Vergangenheit sind wir besonders stolz auf die neuen Songs, die Eivind Buene für Currentes geschrieben hat. Seine phantasievollen Miniaturen für das mittelalterliche Ensemble werden hier zum ersten Mal aufgenommen.
Currentes wurde 2006 von seinem künstlerischen Leiter Jostein Gundersen gegründet. Currentes definiert seine künstlerischen Ziele im Bereich der historischen Aufführungspraxis, spezialisiert auf polyphone Musik des Spätmittelalters und der Renaissance.
Eivind Buene (*1974) ist Absolvent des renommierten norwegischen künstlerischen Forschungsprogramms. Er erhielt Aufträge von führenden Ensembles in Norwegen und im Ausland. Er ist Instrumentalist, Sänger, Arrangeur und Komponist verschiedener Stilrichtungen sowie Romanautor und Essayist.

Artist(s)

Currentes

CURRENTES was founded by its artistic director, Jostein Gundersen, in 2006 and has since then performed in a number of European countries. Currentes defines its artistic goals as within the field of historically informed performance, while specializing in polyphonic music from the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The ensemble´s interest in new forms of expression has led to collaboration with several composers in Norway. From 2015 to 2018, the ensemble is participating in the artistic research project Wheels within wheels. New approaches to interactions between performers and composers at the University of Bergen, the Grieg Academy – Institute of Music. Currentes is supported by Arts Council Norway and the City of Bergen, and is co-founder and partner of Bergen...

CURRENTES was founded by its artistic director, Jostein Gundersen, in 2006 and has since then performed in a number of European countries. Currentes defines its artistic goals as within the field of historically informed performance, while specializing in polyphonic music from the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The ensemble´s interest in new forms of expression has led to collaboration with several composers in Norway. From 2015 to 2018, the ensemble is participating in the artistic research project Wheels within wheels. New approaches to interactions between performers and composers at the University of Bergen, the Grieg Academy – Institute of Music. Currentes is supported by Arts Council Norway and the City of Bergen, and is co-founder and partner of Bergen Medieval Music Days.

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Ingvill M. Holter (soprano)

Kristin Mulder (mezzo soprano)

Anna Danilevskaia (violin)

Hans Lub (violin)

David Catalunya (harpsichord)

Jostein Gundersen (recorder)

JOSTEIN GUNDERSEN is a graduate of the Norwegian Programme for Artistic Research. He is associate professor at the Grieg Academy and also teaches historical improvisation at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, Germany.

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Guillaume Dufay

Ever since his death, Dufay has been considered as one of the greatest composers of the 15th century. In his life as a composer and singer Dufay, like many others, traveled throughout Europe, yet he stayed most of his years in Cambrai, France. At an early age, Dufay already showed remarkable talent and on his fourteenth he received the necessary support, and expensive presents, from the local cathedral. He would never pursue an academic education, but he knew how to obtain good positions within the Church. Dufay composed in all the important genres of his age, from grandiose motets and intimate chansons to sacred, liturgical music. Dufay's style is surprisingly consistent and there is little development within his body of works....

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Guillaume de Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut is one of the first composers who was well aware of his influence on the history of music: at the end of his life he collected his complete body of work in a large book. This neatly arranged, well preserved manuscript contains not only all of his compositions, but also 15 epic poems and over 250 lyric poems. Machaut was an all-round musician, and he was unique in the fact that he wrote commentaries for his own work. His best known work is probably his Messe de Nostre Dame, the first mass which wa composed as a whole. Besides this, Machaut primarily wrote secular music, in all common genres of his time, such as the chanson and the...

Guillaume de Machaut is one of the first composers who was well aware of his influence on the history of music: at the end of his life he collected his complete body of work in a large book. This neatly arranged, well preserved manuscript contains not only all of his compositions, but also 15 epic poems and over 250 lyric poems. Machaut was an all-round musician, and he was unique in the fact that he wrote commentaries for his own work. His best known work is probably his Messe de Nostre Dame, the first mass which wa composed as a whole. Besides this, Machaut primarily wrote secular music, in all common genres of his time, such as the chanson and the virelai. His versatility brought him great fame, which still lasts in our day and age.

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