Baroque Bass Cantatas from Central Germany: Emanuel Kegel (1655-1724), Christian Wolff (1705-1773), Johann Theodor Roemhildt, Hoffmann, Johann Gottfried Donati (1706-1782), Georg Philipp Telemann

Kegel, Emanuel;
Wolff, Christian;
Roemhildt, Johann Theodor;
Donati, Johann Gottfried

Accademia Daniel;
Ad-El, Shalev;
Mertens, Klaus

CPO 777 298-2

This new CD featuring the bass baritone Klaus Mertens and the Accademia Daniel under the conductor Shalev Ad-El offers a representative sampling of baroque bass cantatas from the Kantoreiarchiv St. Johannis in the small town of Mügeln in Saxony. The Mügeln Archive contains numerous printed editions of music and manuscripts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as well as more than four hundred cantatas extant in manuscript form. The cantatas presented here are from the first half of the eighteenth century and were copied during Daniel Jacob Springsguth's years as church music director. All the composers of the cantatas – Telemann, Roemhildt, Donati, Wolff, and Kegel – were from the regions of Saxony and Thuringia. This CD's comprehensive program represents a great gain for the cantata repertoire and shows that even composers working outside the major centers could be masters of their trade. Klaus Mertens once again demonstrates »with a tonally beautiful rendering and clear articulation his outstanding position among the German singers in the field of Early Music« (klassik-heute 6 / 00 of Fasch: Cantatas).

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

CPO

02-02-2010

761203729821