Hassler:
Sacred and Secular Music:
Cantiones sacrae de festis praecipuis totius anni, Augsburg, 1591
Canzonette, Nürnberg, 1590
Lustgarten neuer teutscher Gesäng, Balletti, Gaillarden und Intraden, Nürnberg, 1601
Madrigali, Augsburg, 1596
Neüe teütsche Gesang nach Art der welschen Madrigalien und Canzonetten, Augsburg, 1596
Psalmen und christliche Gesänge, Nürnberg, 1607
Sacri Concentus, Augsburg, 1612

Hans Leo Hassler, born in Nuremberg and baptized October 26, 1564, was the son of an organist, and received his first instruction in music from his father, Issak Hassler. In 1584, Hassler became the first of many German composers of the time who went to Italy to continue their studies; he arrived in Venice during the peak of activity of the Venetian school, the composers who wrote in the resplendent polychoral style, which was soon to become popular outside of its native city. Hassler was already familiar with some of this music, as numerous prints had circulated in Germany due to the interest of Leonhard Lechner, who was associated with Orlandus Lassus in Munich.

Erik Van Nevel pursued instrumental and vocal studies at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven and at the Royal Conservatories of Brussels and Antwerp. He subsequently rounded off his musical education with specialist courses in the UK, Germany and The Netherlands. Erik Van Nevel is both founder and conductor of Currende, an ensemble that appears regularly at the major European festivals. He works in a solo capacity with the Currende Consort, and also leads orchestral concerts with, among others, his own Baroque orchestra, Concerto Currende.

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Previously released as: EUF 1285 Aus Tiefer Noth; EUF 1284 Feinslieb, du hast mich gefangen