The spider in the web - Musicke & Mirth - Julian Podger

schola cantorum basiliensis edition

The spider in the web
Music from Nuremberg Prints of the 16th century
Musique des imprimés de Nuremberg du XVIe siècle
(Alexander Agricola, Ludwig Senfl, Heinrich Isaac, Johannes Ghiselin, Jacobus Barbireau)


Julian Podger - Tenor / tenor

Musicke & Mirth
Irene Klein - Diskant-, Alt-Viola da gamba / treble viol, alto viol
Silvia Tecardi - Diskant-, Alt-, Tenor-Viola da gamba / treble viol, alto viol, tenor viol
Jane Achtman - Tenor-, Bass-Viola da gamba/ tenor viol, bass viol
Wim Maeseele - Laute / lute


International repertoire from Nuremberg Prints of the 16th century, such as old masterworks by Alexander Agricola, arrangements of German folk songs (by Ludwig Senfl, Heinrich Isaac) as well as French compositions »Die Spinne im Netz« is Raumklang´s second CD of the schola cantorum basiliensis edition. This series presents promising young artists and ensembles who have studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. At the same time it is promoting interesting projects outside the mainstream early music. At the beginning of the sixteenth century Nuremberg («The spider in the web») was a northern European centre in which many threads of international music life came together. Early on Nuremberg had established itself as a centre of book printing.
The first printing- offices that occupied themselves seriously with the printing of music, however, were those of Hieronymus Formschneider and Johannes Petreius. Most of the pieces on this recording are taken from these collections of three-part music. They contain international repertoire, including old masterworks such as Caecox and Tandernaken by Alexander Agricola, but also arrangements of German folk songs and ballades such as Elslein, liebstes Elselein mein and Es wonet lieb bey liebe, as well as French compositions and more recent Italian forms.
Musicke & Mirth has chosen the outstanding tenor Julian Podger for this project.