Messa di Requiem

Historia di Jephte : Oratorio

Messa di Gloria : in Fa maggiore

Makh tsu di Eygelekh. Jiddische Lieder

Fröhlich will ich singen. Sacred and secular songs

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the death of Johannes Eccard [1553-1611] Carus is releasing a second CD of his works. It contains secular and sacred vocal works. The Staats- und Domchor Berlin and the Lautten Compagney Berlin, under the direction of Kai-Uwe-Jirka, present those works of Eccard that are stylistically comparable to works of Orlando di Lasso in arrangements which are sometimes surprising and always colorful. Many of the lieder on this CD are from the collection Newe deutzsche Lieder mit Vieren und Fünff Stimmen of 1578 and are recorded here for the first time.

Sacco: Missa 1607

Only one collection of sacred music from 1607 by the Italian composer Salvatore Sacco, presumably a student by Palestrina, has been handed down to us. The recording presents the majority of these works within a framework of a reconstruction of a liturgy for a Marian feast. The reconstruction is based on a thorough study of liturgical and musical practice of the period which has made it possible to place the surviving works of Sacco into their historical context during the time when the polyphonic style of the Roman school had attained its zenith. A rewarding encounter with this unjustly forgotten master of vocal polyphony from Roman school in a warm, elegant,sonorous interpretation by the Italian ensemble Templum Musicae under the direction of Vincenzo Di Donato.