Diskographie

 
The Royal Wedding Munich 1568

La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata, Roland Wilson

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Lasso, Padovano 24 part Mass, Striggio Ecce Beatam Lucem a 40 and much more!

In February 1568 the Heir to the Throne of Bavaria, Duke Wilhelm, married Princess Renée of Lorraine. The Munich wedding and the fortnight-long celebrations which followed were chronicled in a series of dialogues by Massimo Troiano , one of the singers in the court Kapelle.
The celebrations lasted two weeks and obviously only a fraction of the music can be represented but the three part concert contains a selection of the music performed covering all genres, both sacred and secular and featuring spectacular works such as the 40 part Striggio motet and featuring some wonderful and unusal instrumental combinations with instruments such as cornamusa and dolzaina  as described by Troiano.

 
Georg Friedrich Händel

Johannes-Passion
La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata, Roland Wilson

CPO 555 173 2

Gramophone  August 2018
 The accomplished instrumentalists of Musica Fiata and eight singers of La Capella Ducale vividly exploit a wide range of textures:fruity oboes and bassoon are accorded prominence in several movements (eg the tenor duet ‘Welche sind des Heilands Erben?’), two interpolated chorales by Johann Crüger and the final slumber chorus are shaded eloquently, and Wilson’s attention to musical details ensures a compelling interpretation. Hans Jörg Mammel declaims the Evangelist’s narrative boldly and an assortment of short arias are sung expertly – there are notably fine contributions from Ulrike Hofbauer (‘Durch dein Gefängnis’, in dialogue with Anette Sichelschmidt’s assertive concertante violin) and Wolf Matthias Friedrich (‘Erschüttere mit Krachen’, a thunderous response to the crowd baying for Christ’s Crucifixion).

 
Eternal Monteverdi

Vespro della Beata Vergine 1650
La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata, Roland Wilson

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+Grandi, Neri & Rigatti

Gramophone  June 2017
La Capella Ducale move through each shift of gears with expert ease, whether singing subtly nuanced ‘choral’ tutti passages (such as the suspension-laden concluding ‘Amen’ of ‘Dixit Dominus’) or intimate solo ‘concertos’. In the latter category, Monika Mauch’s lightly articulated florid embellishments in Monteverdi’s ‘O quam tu pulchra es’ (printed in Ghirlanda sacra, 1625) are accompanied discreetly by chittarone and harp, Georg Poplutz’s high tenor register has sensitive mellowness in Giovanni Rigatti’s ‘Audi dulcis amica mea’ (a lovely monody over a descending continuo tetrachord), Dominik Wörner’s wide compass and intelligent trillos are spot-on in Rigatti’s ‘Ardet cor meum’ and Constanze Backes converses gracefully with two violins in Alessandro Grandi’s ‘Ave maris stella’. Various duo combinations sing with airy suppleness over a four-note ostinato bass in Monteverdi’s ‘Laetatus sum’, and a trio of two tenors and a bass produce beguiling chromatic supplications in one of his rediscovered settings of ‘Salve regina’ (published posthumously by Vicenti in about 1662). The expert instrumentalists Musica Fiata play at high pitch (A=467), which yields a sunny brilliance in the upper range of sonorities; meantone tuning causes some ear-catching moments whenever solo violin, cornetto and organ continuo are accorded the spotlight in two sonatas by Massimiliano Neri (published 1651).

Sonate concertate in stile moderno 1629

CPO  8455672

Klassik heute

Und ein Liebhaber dieser Musik wird auch wissen, dass solche Werke beim Ensemble Musica Fiata unter der Leitung von Roland Wilson eine vorzügliche Interpretation erfahren. Da sind die Echo-Effekte in der Sonate XVII (tr. 13) ebenso genußvoll ausgekostet wie die geradezu „verliebten“ Dialoge zwischen Zink und Violine (Sonate XII, tr. 9). Hinzu kommt jene Virtuosität, die keineswegs in den Vordergrund gestellt wird, sondern, in voller Eleganz, in eine schöne Balance zwischen den einzelnen Instrumenten eingebettet wird.
Dr. Éva Pintér [02.05.2016]

Johann Hermann Schein

Reformationsmesse1617

Mass for the Reformation Jubilee Dresden 1617

Heinrich Schütz Michael Praetorius

Johann Sebastian Bach

Cantatas and Organ chorale preludes

Aus tiefer Not

Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam

Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh darein

Verena Gropper, Alex Potter, Markus Brutscher, Wolf Matthias Friedrich,

Christoph Anselm Noll (Orgel)

Mit der Orgel der Bachkirche Arnstadt BWV 38, BWV 7, BWV 2
Johann Friedrich Wender, Mühlhausen / Thüringen, 1703,
Orgel der Stadtkirche Waltershausen BWV 686, BWV 684, BWV 741
Tobias Heinrich Gotfried Trost 1724-1730

Christmas in Venice
Giovanni Gabrieli and Alessandro Grandi
including first recording of Gabrieli’s Magnificat "Sicut locutus est"

erschienen October  2012

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 0886919447422

NDR

"Christmas in Venice" mit La Capella Ducale und mit Musica Fiata - das sind fast 80 Minuten fantastischer Musik in einer beispielgebenden Interpretation. Wer sich nach Momenten der Besinnung sehnt in dieser Zeit, der muss eigentlich nur eins tun: diese CD auflegen.

Johann Rosenmüller
Sonate a 2,3,4 e 5 1682

erschienen October  2012

CPO 4101619

klassik. com 01 / 13: "Die Sonaten von Rosenmüller bieten aufregend vielfarbige Kompinationen zwischen streich- und Blasinstrumenten, was allerdings auch eine stets sorgfältige klangliche Balance verlangt - diese wird in der Aufnahme des Ensembles Musica Fiata unter der Leitung von Roland Wilson, wie es bei diesen hochkarätigen Interpreten nicht anders zu erwarten war, optimal verwirklicht."

Johann Joseph Fux
Kaiserrequiem

erschienen April 2012

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88697959972

The Kaiserrequiem, originally composed for the funeral of the widowed empress Eleonora in 1720, was  his most outstanding sacred composition and was also performed for the funerals of other members of the imperial family including the emperor Charles V.

Giovanni Valentini
Musiche Concertate 1619

Erstaufnahme

erschienen Juli 2011

CPO
777535-2

Early Music Review February 2012

This Cd is a relevation. Valentini was a composer I had barely heard of and I approached this CD with some trepidation, but very soon the quality of the music and the performances had me riveted. The performances on this CD by the Capella Ducale and Musica Fiata under the direction of cornettist Roland Wilson are unerringly suberb and suitably extrovert.

Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della beate Vergine 1610

"Live" Aufnahme vom Konzert am 22.10 2010

Kölner Fest für Alte Musik

Pan Classics
PC 10240
Erschienen März 2011

Dieterich Buxtehude
Eine Lübecker Abendmusik