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Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble/Arno Paduch (Christophorus)This is a striking disc, though the title is something of a misnomer. It suggests a kind of documentary of the Ottoman siege of Vienna between July and September 1683. In fact, it's a portrait of the Bavarian composer Johann Kaspar Kerll (1627-1693), who was trapped in the Austrian capital during the siege, and who, six years later, composed the Missa in Fletu Solatium Obsidionis Viennensis (Mass of Consolation while Lamenting the Siege of Vienna), which forms the disc's main work. Its dominant mood is one of relief rather than anguish, though a couple of chromatic sequences in both Gloria and Credo glance back to past trauma. The rest of the disc consists of shorter choral and instrumental pieces, none specifically associated with the siege. Kerll trained in Rome, and there are echoes of Monteverdi and Carissimi in his motets, some of which are very sensuous. […]
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