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2023-05-04 04:00:00
Bach: Motets BWV 225-230 (Reinhard Kammler, Kammerchor der Augsburger Domsingknaben)
Johann Sebastien Bach (1685-1750)Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir, BWV 228Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229Reinhard Kammler, Kammerchor der Augsburger DomsingknabenDeutsche Harmonia Mundi Baroque Esprit 77436-2 (1989/1996)[Flac & Scans]
2022-08-01 07:00:00
There probably are snazzier titles for a CD featuring one of the world’s most exciting countertenors and rare sacred repertoire by both big names (Buxtehude, Schütz, Rosenmüller) and unknowns (Christian Geist, Christoph Bernhard, Melchior Hofmann). However, Hyperion never has stood for “hype”, so we know pretty much that what we’re getting here is, well, German […]
2021-03-29 11:19:00
Super-excellent Gabrieli and RVW on viols: National Centre for Early Music's Awaken festival
Title page of Coryat's Crudities, 1611. Awaken - RVW, Johann Christoph Bach, Gabrieli; Iestyn Davies, Fretwork, I Fagiolini, English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Robert Hollingworth; National Centre for Early Music Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 28 March 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) From RVW on viols combined with North German 17th century composers to Gabrieli writ large, NCEM's Awaken festivalLast weekend (27 and 28 March 2020) the National Centre for Early Music in York presented Awaken: Music Online for Spring with a variety of concerts from historic venues across York. We caught two of the events, on Saturday counter-tenor Iestyn Davies joined Fretwork for a programme of music by Schein, Scheidt, Johann Christoph Bach, Franz Tunder, Christian Geist and RVW. Then on Sunday evening, Robert Hollingworth conducted I Fagiolini, the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble and former members of the The 24 in Super-excellent a programme of […]
2020-02-19 12:40:00
Philharmonie Szenen aus Goethes Faust, WoO3 Faust, Pater Seraphicus, Doctor Marianus – Markus Eiche Gretchen, Una Poenitentium, Solo – Christina Gansch Mephistopheles, Böser Geist, Pater Profundus, Solos – Stephan Klemm Ariel, Pater Ecstaticus, Solos – Bernhard Berchtold Sorge, Not, Jüngerer Engel, Magna Peccatrix, Solos – Sophie Klußmann Mangel, Muller Samaritana, Solos – Stefanie Irányi Marthe, Schuld, Penitent, Mater Gloriosa, Maria Aegyptiaca, Solos – Katharina Magiera RIAS Chamber Choir (chorus director: Gregor Meyer) Children’s Choir of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium, Berlin (chorus directors: Jan Olberg and Vera Zweiniger) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra John Storgårds (conductor) Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust is a curious work. How would one conceive of it if one did not know Goethe’s ‘original’? Whether we like it or not, such will doubtless be the experience of an increasing number of listeners (relatively speaking, for how many will ever come to it all?) just […]
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