Ars Antiqua Austria & Gunar Letzbor - The Music Of The Habsburg Empire (2015) {10CDs Box Set Pan Classics}

The Habsburg Imperial Court was a melting pot of many different cultures in which the zest for living of southerners, the Slav melancholy, French formalism, Spanish courtliness and the original German-speaking Alpine cultural region intermingled. Together with his Ars Antiqua Austria ensemble, Gunar Letzbor occupied himself over a ten year period to produce this 10CD ""Klang der Kulturen"" box, a musical tour of the individual countries that formed the roots of and influences on the music of baroque Vienna, documenting them in live recordings, with each CD representing one country.

For the Austrian baroque violinist Gunar Letzbor, the music of the Habsburg Empire is significantly different from that of the other European cultural centres in France, Italy and Germany. The Habsburg Imperial Court was a melting pot of many different cultures in which the zest for living of southerners, the melancholy of the Slavs, the formalistic traits of the French, the courtly ceremony of the Spanish and the original Alpine culture of the German-speaking region come together. In his concert project "Klang der Kulturen" (The Sound of the Cultures), together with his ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria, he has occupied himself over a period of ten years with the individual countries that formed the roots of and influences on the music of baroque Vienna, documenting them in the form of live recordings.

The result of this work is a box containing 10 CDs, each of which represents a country: the first six CDs are dedicated to the Habsburg patrimonial lands of Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Bohemia and Moravia. Letzbor does not hesitate to immerse himself in the traditional folk music of these countries in order to document the major influences of this music on the art music that ultimately found its way to the Imperial Court in Vienna. The other four CDs document the influences of the most important European centres of Spain, Venice, Rome and Paris on Austrian composers. The result is a comprehensive compendium showing European baroque music from a point of view unusual for us today. This collection reveals many exciting new perspectives in over ten hours of musical works, most of which are recorded here for the first time.

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The Music of the Hapsburg Empire: The Austrian Sound of the Baroque Era

CD 1 Slovenia
Kusser, Esterhazy, Capricornus, Speer, Traditional

CD 2 Slovenia
Posch, Dolar, Tartini, Birck

CD 3 Hungary
Werner, Fux, Esterhazy, Haydn, Ebner, Speer, Schmelzer

CD 4 Poland
Mielczewski, Zielinski, Döbel, Nauwach, Weiss, Speer

CD 5 Bohemia
Stölzel, Losy, Habermann, Reichenauer, Vivaldi, Caffe-Music, Hunting Songs

CD 6 Moravia
Hirschmentzel, Pekarek, Poglietti, Folk Dances, Traditional

CD 7 Spain
Kaiser Leopold I, Sanz, Pagliardi, Losy, Viviani, Matteis

CD 8 Venice
Vivaldi, Ferro, Ziani, Albinoni, Raccolte del Gondoliere

CD 9 Rome
Kerll, Stradella, Muffat, Lonati

CD 10 Paris
Muffat, Radolt, von Ehrenstein, Fux, Mayr, Aufschnaiter, Lully



Personnel:
Ars Antiqua Austria / Gunar Letzbor
rec. live 2001-07, Museum Behnhaus, Lübeck and Audienzsaal des Rathauses Lübeck

tracklist & composers:
CONTENT OF THE BOX SET :

CD 1: Slovakia . Playing time: 56:14
Tracks 1-4 Johann Sigismund Kusser ( 1660- 1727 ) extracts from suite no 1, Le festin des Muses
Track 6: Pàl Esterhàzy (1635-1713) O mors from Harmonia Caelesti ( 1711 )
Track 7: Samuel Friedrich Capricornicus? (1628-1665 ) sonata III a 3
Tracks 8- 12 Georg Daniel Speer (1636-1707) extracts from Gazzetta turco-musicale.
Tracks 13-18 : extracts of Slovak folk music rooted in the Baroque era.

CD 2:Slovenia: Playing time 73:56
Tracks 1-4 : Isaac Posch ( circa 1587- 1622/23) extracts from Musicalische Tafelfreudt
Tracks 5-8: Johann Baptist Dolar ( circa 1620-1673) Suite 1 from Balletti à quattro
Tracks 9-11: Giuseppe Tartini (1693-1770) . Sonata VII
Tracks 12-14: Amandus Ivanschiz ( mid 18th century). Divertimento for violin,viola and cello
Tracks 15-17: Wenzel Raimund Birck (1718-1763) . Concerto for harpsichord,two violins and bass
Tracks 18-23: Johann Baptist Dolar. Suite II from Balletti a quattro
Tracks 24-26 : Isaac Posch. Further extracts from Musicalische Tafelfreudt.

CD 3: Hungary . Playing time 53:25
Track 1 : Hugarian dances from the 18th century
Track 2: Gregor Joseph Werner (1693-1766) . Alma redemptoris mater
Track 3: Johann Joseph Fux ( circa1659 -1741). Sinfonia a tre
Track 4: Pàl Esterhàzy : Jesu parve etc…
Track 5: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809 ) extract from Zingarese per il Clavi Cembalo
Track 6: Wolfgang Ebner ( circa 1611- 1665) . Sonatina per 2 violini,viola da gamba e organo
Track 7: Georg Daniel Speer extracts from Musicalisch- Türckischer Eulenspiegel.
Track 8: Gregor Joseph Werner( no dates given) . Regina coeli
Track 9: Johann Heinrich Schmeltzer ( circa 1620/23 -1680). Suite di Danze
Track 10: Anon sec. XVIII. Danza ungherese.

CD 4: Poland. Playing time 55:57
Track 1: Marcin Mielczewski ( ?- 1651) . Canzona for two violiins and basso continuo
Track 2: Mikolaj Zielenski ( ?). Video caelos apertos for soprano and organ
Track 3: Heinrich Döbel ( 1651-1693 ). Sonata for violin and basso continuo.
Track 4:: Johann Nauwak (?1595- 1644?). Tempesta di dolcezza for soprano and basso continuo.
Tracks 5-8 : Silvius Leopold Weiss (1686-1750). Suonata l'Infedele.
Tracks 9-11: Georg Daniel Speer: Polish ballet extracts from MT Eulenspiegel
Track 12: Anonymus from Cracow Library.

CD 5: Bohemia . Playing time 64:37
Track 1: horn solo( circa 1700)
Track 2: Anonymus. Sonata a tre
Tracks 3-5: Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690-1749 )
Tracks 6-10: Johann Anton Losy (circa 1650-1721)
Tracks 11-13: Franticek Václav Habermann ( 1706-1783). Concerto for 2 horns, 2 violins and basso continuo.
Tracks 14-15: Jägerlieder circa1700.
Tracks 16: horn solo circa 1700. Interludium.
Tracks 17-20: Antonin Reichenauer (1694-1730). Trio for 2 violins and basso continuo.
Tracks 21-23: Antonio Vivaldi (1648-1741). Trio for lute,violin and basso continuo RV 85
Track 24: Caffe-Music. Responsorium ad querelam Rustici.
Tracks 25-26: Jägerlieder circa 1700.



CD 6: Moravia. Playing time : 75: 46
Tracks 1-2 : divine service; Kristian Godefridus Hirschmentzel ( 1638-1703) from Orpheus
Tracks 3-4: in the monastery cell. Anonymus. Parthia 4ta.
Tracks 6-7: monastery theatre. Josef Pekárek ( 1758-1820) Arie der Manda- Arie der Jora.
Track 8: Hirschmentzel Saltus civilis- Saltus rustanicus- Saltus nobilis.
Tracks 9-20: Alessandro Poglietti ( 1683-?) and anonymus pieces.

CD7: Spain . Playing time 57.31
Tracks 1-2 Nicolas Matteis the young ( 1677-1737 ). Chacoone + la dia Spagnola.
Track 3: Kaiser Leopold 1. Sarabanda. Quando el Alba
Track 4: Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710). Lantururu.
Tracks 5 -8: Kaiser Leopold + Gaspar Sanz : various pieces
Track 9: Giovanni Maria Pagliardi ( 1702-1737). Comedia- España
Track 10: Johann Adam Losy von Losinthal (1645-1721). Ciaccona
Tracks 11-12: Antonio Maria Viviani? ( circa 1639-1683). Potpourri from El Prometeo opera ( Vienna 1672) + a las niñas de tus osos.
Track 13: Nicola Matteis the young: la dia Spagnola.

CD 8: Venice . Playing time: 67:57
Tracks 1-4: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). Sonata for violin, oboe and organo obbligato.
Tracks 5-8: Anonymus. Canzonette da Battello from Raccolta del Gondoliere.
Track 9: Marco Antonio Ferro (circa 1600-1662): sonata for violin and theorb.
Tracks 10-11: Marc'Antonio Ziani (1653-1715) : Alma redemptoris mater for soprano,violin and basso continuo.
Tracks 12-16: Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1750): sonata for oboe and basso continuo.
Track 17: Vivaldi: aria largo Angeletti,vuoi col canto RV 680
Track 18: Giovanni Battista Lampugnani (1708-1788). Bel placer Saria d'un Core ( Venetian ballads 1735)

CD 9: Rome . Playing time 53:00
Track1: Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693). Toccata VIII.
Tracks 2-4: Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682). Sinfonia, Passagaglia de Mr Muffat, Toccata.
Track 5: Carlo Ambrogio Lonati ( circa 1645-1710?) Ciaccone.
Track 6: Kerll . Canzona Vi.

CD 10:: Paris. Playing time 50:29
Tracks 1-7: Georg Muffat (1653-1704). Fasciculus II, Laeta Poesis.
Tracks 8-14: Wenzel Ludwig Feiherr von Radolt (1667-1716). Suite
Tracks 15-19: Johann Jakob Stupan von Ehrenstein (1664-1739). Overture from Rosetum Musicum
Tracks 20-26: music by Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741), Rupert Ignaz Mayr(1646-1712), Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter(1665-1742), Jean Baptiste Lully(1632-1687).