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Mogens Pedersøn

Program: #23-42   Air Date: Oct 16, 2023

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Another of the great pupils of Gabrieli (and indeed may have spent time with Heinrich Schutz when they were in Venice), Pederson gets a new airing of his rarely-recorded sacred works by the ensemble Weser-Renaissance.

NOTE: All of the music on this program comes from the Ensemble Weser-Renaissance directed my Manfred Cordes. It is on CPO label and is CD 555 216-2.

For more information on the ensemble:

weser-renaissance-bremen.de

Mogens Pedersøn was a pupil of Melchior Borchgrevinck, later royal kapellmeister, and in 1619 he became royal vice kapellmeister. His major work, Pratum spirituale, was published in Copenhagen in 1620, containing 21 five-part hymns and a mass, three motets, and a number of responsories. The works directly reflect the church-musical requirements of the time, which made available in print some kind of offerings for ultimately all situations of Lutheran culture. In addition to the hymns that were part of the core liturgical program for the three feasts (Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost), there are Danish hymns, ten psalm hymns, and nine "free" hymns, partly from the distinctly Danish hymn tradition, partly from Luther's closest repertoire. The stylistic world that Pedersøn reveals in Pratum spirituale is unquestionably only a very narrow segment of what this internationally experienced musician mastered: schooled between organ playing, Italian madrigal, Venetian double choir and English "consort music”.

From Gramophone: The Latin Mass is finely wrought and the other Latin pieces show impressive character and range... Weser-Renaissance Bremen have always excelled in this type of repertoire and do so again here.

Pratum spiritual (moskins and hymns)

  1. Nu bede vi the Helligaand (Now we ask the Holy Spirit)
  2. Kyrie — Gloria
  3. Jesus Christ before Frelsermand (Jesus Christ, our Saviour)
  4. Victimae pashali laudes
  5. Ieg raaber til dig o Lord Christian (I cry to you, Lord Jesus Christ)
  6. Laudate Dominum
  7. Allen til dig Lord Jesus Christ (All to you, Lord of Jesus Christ)
  8. Credo
  9. Min Siel nu loffue men (Nun lob, my Seel, the Lord)
  10. Ad te levavi
  11. Aff dybsens nod raaber til dig (From deep distress I cry to you)
  12. Sanctus
  13. Loffuer Gud i pious Christne (Lobt of God, her pious Christians)
  14. Deus misercreat
  15. Get s os Lord ved dit ord (Recruit us Lord at your word)
  16. Forla oss med fred naadious (lend us peace graciously)

Composer Info

Mogens Pedersøn

CD Info

CPO CD 555 216-2