Rorate coeli - Ensemble La Rubina

Music from Johann Hermann Schein, Heinrich Schütz Johann Rosenmüller, Alessandro Grandi, Dario Castello u. a.

La Rubina
Nora Hansen (Dulzian, Blocklöte)
Claudia Mende (Violine, Viola)
Zita Mikijanska (Cembalo, Orgel)
Friederike Otto (Zink, Hackbrett, Orgel)
Christoph Sommer (Laute)

The Leipzig ensemble La Rubina unites passion and expertise for the music of the early 17th century. In a small chamber group, the different timbres of cornet, baroque violin, dulcian, theorbo as well as harpsichord and organ are combined in a very exquisite way. The works recorded here from Venice and Leipzig – two of the most influential centres of music after 1600 – have in common the “narrative” element arising from the monodic principle of vocal music, which had a decisive influence on the expression of instrumen- tal music. Conversely, virtuosity in early Baroque chamber music had an effect on vocal music; the most important genre of church music of that time, the sacred concerto, came into being. In this respect, some instrumentally performed sacred pieces here fit in orga- nically.