Dionysos Now!
The Adriaen Willaert Series: Notes
- Type Book - print
- Label Evil Penguin
- UPC 0608917722925
- Catalog number EPRC 0042
- Release date 05 November 2021
About the album
The Adrianotes supplement the albums of Adriano 1 and Adriano 2, which feature Dionysos Now! and Tore Tom Denys in works by Adriaen Willaert. This booklet pays homage to the great 16th-century composer with song texts, literature, poetry, philosophy, and 12 works of art.
Tore Tom Denys (founder Dionysos Now!):
"It’s a great pleasure and honour for me to invite you into a journey in the live and work of Adriaen Willaert (1490–1562), the great master of Flemish polyphony from Rumbeke near Roeselare.
Willaert was maestro di cappella of the San Marco Basilica in Venice for 35 years until his death and was known as the best composer and pedagogue of his time. His music quickly spread beyond Italy — thanks in part to advances in printing technology — and was performed at many of Europe’s grandest courts and cathedrals, even at the Vatican. At the same time, numerous composers were coming in the opposite direction from places like Flanders, France, and Germany into Italy to study with ‘Maestro Adriano’ in ‘La Serenissima’ or to become acquainted with his new compositional techniques.
It has been more than 500 years since Willaert’s music could be heard every day somewhere in Europe in a church or chapel. For centuries, it has been (too) silent around the beautifully decorated choirbooks where his masses and motets occupy an eminent place and the printed partbooks that bear witness to the most beautiful madrigals and chansons of that time.
With my new ensemble Dionysos Now!, I want to literally take Adriaen Willaert’s music out of Europe’s libraries and let it sound again.
With Dionysos Now!, I wish to show that Renais- sance vocal polyphony is wonderfully captivating music that deserves to be heard by a wider audience. We want to build cathedrals out of sounds, letting you experience the music as though you were flying far above those cathedrals with a drone. The individual bricks are all there, but they seem to merge together with the whole, into the gestalt: the radiant music generates much more effervescent energy than the sum of its tones, and the music's contagious flow is sought and captured, like a surfer who seems to have found the perfect wave and seizes his chance to ride it before it again ebbs away...
It is my uttermost pleasure to combine music from the renaissance with contemporary art as in the work of Honoré d’O for the first album and by the famous Belgian painter Leon Spilliaert for the second album.
Ancient music but contemporary performances.
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11Missa 'Mittit ad Virginem' Kyrie Eleison
03:41 -
12Missa 'Mittit ad Virginem' Gloria
04:44 -
13Missa 'Mittit ad Virginem' Credo
08:04 -
14Missa 'Mittit ad Virginem' Sanctus - Benedictus
05:35 -
15Missa 'Mittit ad Virginem' Agnus Dei
05:54 -
16Mittit ad Virginem Choral Hymnus
03:37 -
17Mittit ad Virginem Motet
09:52 -
18O Gloriosa Domina Motet
04:46 -
19Ave Maria Motet
04:08 -
110Beata Viscera Motet
03:50 -
21Missa Benedicta es Kyrie Eleison
03:45 -
22Missa Benedicta es Gloria
05:22 -
23Missa Benedicta es Credo
07:24 -
24Missa Benedicta es Sanctus
05:37 -
25Missa Benedicta es Agnus Dei
03:35 -
26Regina Caeli
01:10 -
27Kyrie Cunctipotens Genitor Deus
05:58 -
28Maria Mater Domini Motet
06:35 -
29O dolce vita mia Villanesche
05:09 -
210A quand'a quand'haveva Villanesche
02:31 -
211Passa la nave Madrigal
04:38 -
212In diebus illis
05:04 -
213Venator lepores
05:20 -
214A la fontaine du prez Chanson
02:23