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Earth Music - Tales of Silver, Gold and Subterranean Secrets

9/11/2020, 20 Tracks, 1:09:21

Featuring

  • Margaret Hunter
  • Katharina Bäuml
  • Matthias Lutze
  • RIAS Kammerchor
  • Capella de la Torre
  • Giovanni Gabrieli
  • Estêvão de Brito
  • Luca Marenzio
  • Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi
  • Jacobus Gallus
  • Guillaume Costeley
  • Heinrich Schütz
  • Tielman Susato
  • Melchior Franck
  • Michael Praetorius
  • Sethus Calvisius
  • Francesco Cavalli
  • Anthony Holborne
  • Stefano Landi
  • William Byrd
  • Josquin des Prez
  • Anonymous
  • Isaac Posch

Did you know?

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Historical Context

The philosopher Boethius systematized the idea of three kinds of music: musica mundana (harmony of spheres), musica humana (human coexistence), and musica instrumentalis (what we call music today).

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

The ancient doctrine of the four elements, which includes earth, was associated with medicine for centuries through the pathology of humours, linking bodily fluids to elements.

Source: Booklet

Album & Artwork

This album, 'EARTH Music', is the final recording in Capella de la Torre's series of 'Four Elements', inspired by the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Athanasius Kircher, a Baroque polymath, believed music reflected the universe's proportions, using the metaphor of a 'cosmic organ' where earth played a fundamental role as the 'lowest bass string'.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

The recordings for this album were completed in a large lineup of 8 singers and 18 musicians, just one week before the Corona lockdown in February 2020.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

In Renaissance and Baroque music, the earth is reflected in various ways, from praising the Creator in sacred works to being hymned as a place of life, love, and work in secular pieces.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

The album serves as an appeal for humans to handle the elements more carefully, reflecting concerns about the threat to nature in our time.

Source: Booklet

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