Terpsichore Dances / Motets
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Composer: Michael PraetoriusConductor: David Munrow
Performer: Early Music Consort of London
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-07-16
Music Label: Virgin Veritas
Soundtracks:
- Dances From Terpsichore: Passameze
- Dances From Terpsichore: Spagnoletta
- Dances From Terpsichore: La Bourree
- Dances From Terpsichore: Pavane de Spaigne
- Dances From Terpsichore: Courante M.M. Wustrow
- Dances From Terpsichore: Suite de ballets
- Dances From Terpsichore: [Galliard]- Reprinse secundam inferiorum
- Dances From Terpsichore: La Sarabande
- Dances From Terpsichore: Suite de voltes
- Motets: Resonet in laudibus
- Motets: Erhalt uns Herr bei deinem Wort
- Motets: Got der Vater wohn uns bei
- Motets: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir
- Motets: Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr
- Motets: Christus der uns selig macht
Music reviews of Terpsichore Dances / Motets
Music Review: Embarrassing Error
Rating: 4 Stars
Before commenting on the music on this disc, I should probably point out an embarrassing error of translation in the accompanying notes that causes booklet author Jerome Roche completely to misunderstand and misinterpret one of Praetorius's spiritual motets. The German text of the first verse of Track 11 is, "Erhalt uns Herr bei deinem Wort /und steur des Babsts und Türken Mord,/die Jesum Christum, deinen Sohn,/stürzen wollen von seinem Thron." Whoever translated this into English made a complete hash of it with following rendering: "Uphold us Lord in Your Word, and let the Pope and Turks be murdered for casting down Jesus Christ, Your Son, from His throne." But anyone familiar with both seventeenth-century German and Lutheran Church history will see that the correct translation should be, "Uphold us Lord in Your Word, and thwart the murderous plans [or, Stop the murderous attacks] of the Pope and the Turks who are attempting to cast down Jesus Christ, Your Son, from His throne." The German verb "steuern" used to mean to thwart or to hinder; and the noun Mord is still today not used with a genitive of the person to be murdered but of the person committing the murder.
All that need only worry the expert, but such are the prospective buyers of this disc, which was recorded in December 1973 and certainly does not reflect the way most people in today's early music scene would play Praetorius. But David Munrow was a pioneer, and this disc is a wonderful document of his enterprising spirit and musicality. He is here accompanied by a large team including such well-respected names as James Bowman, Charles Brett, David James, Martyn Hill, Michael Laird, Iaan Wilson, Alan Lumsden, Andrew van der Beek, Simon Standage, Trevor Jones, Christopher Hogwood and Peter Hurford, the instrumentalists among them playing all kinds of historical instruments of the kind that have only become known through the efforts of Munrow, Philip Pickett and others of the early music ilk. Munrow plays the excerpts from Terpsichore Musarum (1612) just a little too slowly for my way of thinking, because this is French-style dance music which should really set one's foot tapping. Philip Pickett's classic Decca version is certainly more in line with this, as also is the excellent version by the Ricercar Consort and La Fenice on the Belgian specialist label Ricercar.
Where Munrow comes into his own is with his selection of Praetorius's motets. Using multiple choirs, including boy trebles, Munrow illustrates quite fortuitously how German Lutheran church music, despite its virulent Protestantism, was dependent on the example of Giovanni Gabrieli and the music of St. Mark's, Venice. Listen to these tracks in front of your loudspeakers, not via headphones, and you will hear how transparently and spaciously they have been recorded (at London's Abbey Road studios, always a recommendation). The digital remastering has been done excellently, and I could not detect any but the faintest background noise; the instruments stand out clearly, and the voices are captured with wonderful warmth and depth.
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