Musica Transalpina

Musical Patronage at Imperial Abbeys

Musica Transalpina is thrilled to present a program of music from monastic sources on Saturday July 12 in Pasadena and Sunday July 13 in Newport Beach. While royal courts were the first to import baroque liturgical music from Italy, it was the vast network of religious orders that disseminated this magnificent repertoire north of the Alps following the Council of Trent. The imperial abbey system not only spread the latest musical styles from Italy, they acquired copies of the music being composed for the Hofkapelle, thus preserving these works which would have otherwise been lost.

Program

Blasius Ammon, O. F. M.: Introit for the Common of a Confessor Pontiff: Statuit ei.
Published at Vienna in 1582; also found in a choirbook belonging to the Cappuchin Monastery at Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz copied in 1597.

Joseph Balthasar Hochreither: Missa Jubilus sacer
Composed in 1731, presumably for Lambach Abbey

Romanus Weichlein, O. S. B.: Sonata prima from Encænia Musices
Published at Innsbruck in 1695.

Mathias Sigismund Biechteler: Justus ut palma
Manuscript from Salzburg Cathedral dated 1737.

Gregor Aichinger: Ecce sacerdos magnus
Quercus dudonæa, Augsburg: 1619.

Adalbert Grunde, O. S. B.: Ingredemini omnes
Manuscript from Kremsmünster Abbey dated 1637.

Personnel

Clarino primo: Dr. Kris Kwapis
Clarino secondo: Cody Beard
Tromba 1: Mike Davis
Tromba 2: Dr. Angela Romero
Timpani: Jamie Strowhiro

Trombone 1: Spencer Schaffer
Trombone 2: Brad Close
Trombone 3: Noah Gladstone

Violino 1: Jolianne Einem
Violino 2: Anna Washburn
Violoncello: Eric Tinkerhess

Canto: Andrea Zomorodian & Maura Tuffy
Alto: Doug Dodson & Anselm Decker
Tenore: Dr. R. Matthew Brown & Luc Kleiner
Basso: Chung Uk Lee & Brett McDermid

Organo: Sean Maxwell
Fagotto: Jon Stehney
Violone: Gabriel Golden
Chitarrone: Robert Wang
Arpa tripla: Mana Tinkerhess