Stadtpfeiffer: Music of Renaissance Germany

Stadtpfeiffer: Music of Renaissance Germany

Stadtpfeiffer: Music of Renaissance Germany
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Composer: Paul Hofhaimer
Composer: Heinrich Isaac
Composer: Heinrich Finck
Composer: Ludwig Senfl
Composer: Caspar Othmayr
Composer: Adam Gilbert
Composer: Johann Jakob Walther
Composer: Michael Praetorius
Performer: Anonymous
Performer: Gregorian Chant
Orchestra: Adam von Fulda
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-02-27
Music Label: Dorian Recordings
Soundtracks:
  1. Greyner, Zanner - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  2. Greiner, Zancker, Schnopfitzer - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  3. Greiner, Zanner - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  4. Ach Elshein, Liebes Elselein Mein - Piffaro
  5. Im Maien - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  6. Was Wird Es Doch Des Wunders Noch - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  7. Was Wird Es Doch Des Wunders Noch - Piffaro
  8. Was Wird Es Doch Des Wunders Noch - Piffaro
  9. Ein Maidlein Zue Dem Brunnen Gierg - Piffaro
  10. Quisquis Requiem Quaeris - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  11. Non Argus Largus - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  12. Non Somnos Requiem - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  13. Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott - Piffaro
  14. Der Grabentanz - Piffaro
  15. Will Neimand Singen - Piffaro/Christa Patton
  16. Philou & Ho, Herders - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  17. Der Pfauen Schwantz - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  18. Bonum Vinum Cum Sapore - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  19. In Feuers Hitz/Mole Gravati Criminum - Piffaro
  20. Pange Lingua Gloriosi - Piffaro
  21. T' andernaken A 4 - Piffaro
  22. German Tunes Of The Early 16th Century - Piffaro
  23. Den Besten Vogel - Piffaro/Benjamin Harms
  24. Presulem Sanctissimum - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  25. Patientiam Sanctissimum - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  26. Patientiam Mueb Ich Han (A 4) - Piffaro
  27. Patientiam Mueb Ich Han - Piffaro
  28. Patientiam Mueb Ich Han (A 5) - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  29. O Du Armer Judas - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey
  30. Veni Sancte Spiritus - Piffaro/Mack Ramsey

Music reviews of Stadtpfeiffer: Music of Renaissance Germany

Music Review: "Kind of Blue," 16th-Century Style
Rating: 5 Stars

Most devotees of the great Miles Davis album Kind of Blue know its story from the liner notes by Bill Evans: Miles comes to the studio with a pocketful of modal scales and changes, shows them to the illustrious group - Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb - and everyone simply blows, unrehearsed. The result is the consensus "most influential" or "most beautiful" or simply "the greatest" (and certainly best-selling) jazz album of the '50s and perhaps the entire post-World War II period (and some say "ever"). It popularized "modal jazz," essentially a modal "cantus firmus" ("fixed song") around which players shaped their improvisations.

Lovers of early music - and admirers of "the Renaissance Band" Piffaro - will know exactly where I'm going here. The precision with which early music ensembles like Piffaro perform their repertoire leads most listeners to conclude that every single note is scored as it is played. Nothing could be further from the truth. Generally, such pieces are also built around a modal cantus firmus and consist of ensemble members finding polyphonic, often contrapuntal, lines that harmonize or embellish the main melody.

Thanks to Guenther Schuller and other jazz historians, we associate "early jazz" with pioneering, pre-swing era, early 20th century Buddy Bolden/King Oliver/Louis Armstrong/Jelly Roll Morton "spontaneous composition" jazz music. That said, most music lovers know the familiar great players (and often composers) of earlier centuries - Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, etc. - were all prodigiously talented spontaneous improvisers. Few of their improvisations have been written down (except as cadenzas to their scored compositions), and we don't connect classical improvisation to jazz music. Nor do we generally connect it to "early music" - that is, music that precedes the Baroque - nor does it seem we should, really: jazz is jazz, and in a distinct way, uniquely American, and Renaissance improvisation is vastly less "free."

And now (I know: "at last!") the point: Piffaro's "Stadtpfeiffer: Music of Renaissance Germany" is a glorious tutorial is the Renaissance style of cantus-firmus-plus-improvisation musical composition and performance, as beautiful and surprising in its way as Miles' classic is in its. Each member of this Philadelphia-based ancient-instruments wind ensemble is a technically flawless, multi-instrument musician. And each of the thirty tracks on this generous CD builds from simplicity through several incremental layerings to a thrilling, gyring, soaring, perfectly harmonious multi-voiced conclusion. The scholarship of the group - on display in the attractive, informative notes - is impeccable and results in satisfying arrangements that run through the full diversity of early wind-instrument settings (with occasional percussion, lute, and harp accompaniments).

Moreover, as other reviewers have noted, those who think early music wind instrumentation consists solely of the familiar recorders, shawms, crumhorns, serpents, and the like will be stunned by the presence of bagpipes in Piffaro's kitbag. Bagpipes traversed Europe from the Middle East and wound up in the British Isles (and known to most solely via sonic clichés like "Amazing Grace" and "Danny Boy"). Here they're a force of nature, blowing out from a primordial past, pitched higher than Scottish pipes, in swirls of glorious polyphony. If you enjoy Celtic music, or bluegrass, or the Baroque, or the Hot Fives and Sevens, or the Chieftains, or the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, find a copy of this CD and let the ingenuity of Renaissance masters such as Ludwig Senfl and Caspar Othmayr wash over you via the vituoso improvisational playing of Piffaro. "Early jazz" indeed.

Stadtpfeiffer (literally, "city piper" or "city musician") is, by the way, still available; you can at least order it from the Piffaro website. I stumbled across mine while Christmas shopping; the attractive cover art caught my eye, I like early music, had some Michael Praetorius but little else from Germany, and so selfishly gave myself a gift, sound unheard. What a find, like pulling down a random book at the library that, once read, has changed your life. I haven't stopped playing it. Neither will you.
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