Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem - The Carlo G. Manuscript: Virtuoso Liturgical Music from the Early 17th Century (2017)

Some 15 years ago, the hitherto unknown 'Carlo G Manuscript' was purchased at a Vienna jumble sale for the princely sum of 60 Euros. Once a doctoral thesis has been prepared based on this document and it had been made available on the internet in the form of scanned images, the manuscript was sold by Sotheby s at auction to an anonymous buyer in 2007, as a consequence of which it has once again disappeared. The fact that the surname of its author had become illegible as a result of a smudge deepens the mystery surrounding the manuscript even further. However, despite being contemporaneous with the infamous Carlo Gesualdo, everything points to the fact the prince of Venosa was not the composer being searched for… An extensive selection of pieces from the manuscript can now be heard courtesy of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, performed by the ensemble Profeti della Quinta, directed by the organist Elam Rotem. These are liturgical pieces dating from the early 17th-century in a very similar form to what can be heard on this recording. One of the manuscript s peculiar characteristics is that it includes, exactly note for note what is expected from the singers and organist. This embraces the complex ornamentations which, by and large, musicians would improvise and wouldn t be written down. The acoustic of the Chiesa dei Santi Eusebio e Vittore de Peglio, Italy provides added authenticity to a project which is entrancing from every angle.

TRACKLIST
01. Veni dilecte mi - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem
02. Tota pulchra es - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem
03. Amor Jesu dulcissime - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem
04. Alma mater - Plamena Nikitassova & Jörg-Andreas Bötticher
05. Benché sovra le stelle (Per monache) - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem
06. Ricercar (Biblioteca musicale Laurence K. J. Feininger MS FP 236) - Jörg-Andreas Bötticher
07. Sub umbra illius - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem
08. Toccata in D Minor (Chigi MS Q IV 24) - Elam Rotem
09. Mater Hierusalem - Profeti Della Quinta, Plamena Nikitassova, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher & Elam Rotem
10. Ego flos campi - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem
11. Ego dormio et cor meum vigilat - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem
12. Panis angelicus - Profeti Della Quinta, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, Plamena Nikitassova & Elam Rotem
13. Toccata in A Minor (Chigi MS Q IV 27) - Elam Rotem
14. Iste est (Per S. Bernardo) - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem
15. Peccavi super numerum - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem
16. Toccata elevatione (Chigi MS Q IV 29) - Elam Rotem
17. Miserere - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem
18. Nigra sum - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem
19. Luce gratiae tuae - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem
20. Toccata dell'ottavo tono - Jörg-Andreas Bötticher
21. Deus Dominus meus - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem
22. Canzone (Biblioteca musicale Laurence K. J. Feininger MS FP 236) - Jörg-Andreas Bötticher
23. Sicut sponsus matris - Profeti Della Quinta & Elam Rotem