Knupfer: Sacred Music - Sampson, King, King's Consort (2011)
Knupfer: Sacred Music - Sampson, King, King's Consort (2011)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 329 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Helios | Catalog Number: 55393
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 329 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Helios | Catalog Number: 55393
Sebastian Knüpfer is yet another Baroque composer whose reputation and popularity have been overshadowed by J S Bach. Little of Knüpfer’s music has previously been transcribed from its many manuscripts, let alone published. However, in his day Knüpfer was a respected and highly soughtafter composer; his compositions were admired by his contemporaries and, according to his obituary, he ‘composed quotations of the Psalms and other Biblical books with such sweetness and skilfulness that he delighted even the saddest hearts, and his name is spoken with admiration not only in Leipzig but also outside’.
As we have come to expect from Robert King and his King’s Consort, the performances are of the highest standard with some of the finest singers on the early music platform today.
Composer: Sebastian Knüpfer
Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Robin Blaze, James Bowman, James Gilchrist, …
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: King's Consort
Reviews: Sebastian Knupfer? If you know of him, it is far more likely to be through reading about him than hearing his music - his name does not grace the current catalogue. In either event you should be pleased by this issue. He was the pre-penultimate predecessor of Bach, becoming organist and choirmaster at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig in 1657 at the age of 24, remaining in the post until his death in 1676; he was followed by Johann Schelle (also mislaid in aural history's wash) and Kuhnau. His popularity in Germany was high, and it is due to the many surviving hand-written copies of his music and the work of Brian Clark in transcribing them that history's flawed verdict is overturned by this recording - here there is no Robert King: deserves to feel proud of this disc such thing as double jeopardy.
Most of the works on the CD are in the form of vocal concertos in which passages for soloists contrast with the weight of the choir, and Kniipfer's versatile use of the latter is most impressive. No less striking is his symbolic use of the often large body of instruments, as in Herr, strafe mich nicht in deinem Zorn, where humility and pain are expressed through two recorders in the second verse, and God's wrath by trumpets and timpani in the third and last, which ends on a conciliatory note, quietly sounded by the trumpets - God is merciful. His style is a personal reconciliation of Italian and German elements, underpinned by mastery of every facet of his compositional craft. There is no respect in which the vocal and instrumental performances or the recording fail to do justice to a composer whose revival is long overdue. I strongly recommend you to discover this for yourselves. Bravo, Hyperion!
Tracklisting:
1. Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht by Sebastian Knüpfer
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Robin Blaze (Countertenor), James Bowman (Countertenor),
James Gilchrist (Tenor), Peter Harvey (Bass), Rebecca Outram (Soprano),
Charles Daniels (Tenor)
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1670-1675; Leipzig, Germany
Language: German
2. Quaemadmodum desiderat cervus by Sebastian Knüpfer
Performer: Peter Harvey (Bass)
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1663; Leipzig, Germany
Language: Latin
3. Super flumina Babylonis by Sebastian Knüpfer
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Charles Daniels (Tenor), Robin Blaze (Countertenor),
Peter Harvey (Bass)
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 17th Century; Leipzig, Germany
Language: Latin
4. Was mein Gott will, das gescheh allzeit by Sebastian Knüpfer
Performer: Charles Daniels (Tenor), Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Rebecca Outram (Soprano),
James Gilchrist (Tenor), Robin Blaze (Countertenor), Michael George (Bass)
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 17th Century; Leipzig, Germany
Language: German
5. Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her by Sebastian Knüpfer
Performer: Rebecca Outram (Soprano), Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Charles Daniels (Tenor),
Michael George (Bass), Robin Blaze (Countertenor), Susan Hamilton (Soprano)
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: ?1673; Leipzig, Germany
Language: German
6. Wenn mein Stündlein vorhanden ist by Sebastian Knüpfer
Performer: Robin Blaze (Countertenor), Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Michael George (Bass),
James Gilchrist (Tenor)
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 17th Century; Leipzig, Germany
Language: German
7. Jesus Christus unser Heiland by Sebastian Knüpfer
Performer: Rebecca Outram (Soprano), Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), James Bowman (Countertenor),
Michael George (Bass), Robin Blaze (Countertenor), James Gilchrist (Tenor),
Charles Daniels (Tenor)
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 17th Century; Leipzig, Germany
Language: German
8. Die Turtletaube lässt sich hören by Sebastian Knüpfer
Performer: James Bowman (Countertenor), Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Robin Blaze (Countertenor),
Rebecca Outram (Soprano), Michael George (Bass), Charles Daniels (Tenor),
James Gilchrist (Tenor)
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: King's Consort
Period: Baroque
Written: 1676; Leipzig, Germany
Language: German
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