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Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus & Franz Hauk - Mayr: Messa solenne in D Minor (2024)

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Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus & Franz Hauk - Mayr: Messa solenne in D Minor (2024)

Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus & Franz Hauk - Mayr: Messa solenne in D Minor (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 453 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 225 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:35:55
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Naxos Records

Johann Simon Mayr’s music stands on the cusp between the Classical and Romantic eras. The expressive lyrical qualities in his religious music reflects a career in which he composed nearly 70 operas. The Messa solenne follows the Italian tradition of messa concertata and contains the full ordinary – a rarity for Mayr’s output in this genre. The work’s polyphonic sections made an especially lasting impression on churchgoers of the time, as witnessed by Mayr’s first biographer, Girolamo Calvi, who wrote enthusiastically about this work’s ‘exquisite vocal writing’ and ‘profoundly thrilling’ virtuosity – qualities that have remained hidden for nearly 200 years.

Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Le due duchesse (2020)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Le due duchesse (2020)

Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Le due duchesse (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 750 Mb | Total time: 02:42:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.660422-23 | Recorded: 2017

As one of the leading operatic composers of his generation, Johann Simon Mayr nurtured a fascination with the chivalric stories of medieval England. Le due duchesse, an opera semiseria with buffa elements, is set during the reign of the 10th-century King Edgar. Huntsmen’s and Knights’ choruses and troubadour-like songs give great vivacity to a score that is both lyrical and dramatic. Mayr’s compound of Viennese Classicism and Italianate melodic beauty, allied to his ambitious writing and a skilful libretto, produced an important and influential opera couched in his own unmistakable idiom.

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Ferdinando Paër: Il Santo Sepolcro (2012)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Ferdinando Paër: Il Santo Sepolcro (2012)

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Ferdinando Paër: Il Santo Sepolcro (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 296 Mb | Total time: 70:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572492 | Recorded: 2008

Together with Johann Simon Mayr, Ferdinando Paër counts as one of the most important opera composers of his day, and he was unable to resist filling his oratorio on Christ’s Passion, Il Santo Sepolcro with expressive extremes. Pain and grief contrast with joy and hope, and scenes including the terrible hours of the crucifixion, frenzy of the crowd, resurrection and Last Judgment are given potently descriptive music. Originally a prelude to Haydn’s Seven Last Words, Mayr’s Invito is a call to hear Paër’s incomparable narrative.

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Gaetano Donizetti: Aristea (2014)

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Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Gaetano Donizetti: Aristea (2014)

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Gaetano Donizetti: Aristea (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 239 Mb | Total time: 59:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573360 | Recorded: 2012

Gaetano Donizetti’s ‘mini opera’ Aristea follows the 19th-century fashion for composing celebratory scenic works with a large cast and full orchestra, in this case to honour Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies. Librettist Giovanni Schmidt recycled Aristea from an earlier abandoned opera set in idyllic Greek surroundings. This tells the classical story of enforced separation of a father from his daughter, their subsequent confusions and final happy reunion. Donizetti’s early style was influenced by Rossini but is nevertheless independent and innovative, often hinting at his later operatic masterpieces.

Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Saffo (2016)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Saffo (2016)

Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Saffo (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 544 Mb | Total time: 121.24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.660367-68 | Recorded: 2014

No one did more to combine in his operas the innovations of the Viennese classical composers, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, with the Italian ideal of bel canto than Johann Simon Mayr, the Bavarian composer who rose to fame in Italy. His opera Saffo, first performed in 1794, dates from his years in Venice. Not only was it his first opera but it was premièred at the Teatro La Fenice where it was enthusiastically received. It is full of surprising and striking elements, with a strong musical realisation of the text, supportive string and woodwind writing and vivid solo and choral effects. Set by the Rock of Leucas, from which unsuccessful lovers leap to their deaths, the opera deals with the poetess Sappho’s unhappy love for Phaon, finally resolved in a happy ending.

Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Telemaco (2017)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Telemaco (2017)

Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Telemaco (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 561 Mb | Total time: 135:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.660388-89 | Recorded: 2015

Mayr's Telemaco was a product of turbulent political times in the Republic of Venice, which had been occupied by Napoleon's troops in late 1796. Military elements, with incorporated marches, feature strongly in a score that brought to contemporary Venetian theatre many of the innovative elements that were in vogue on the operatic stages of Paris. Taking classical Greek mythological material, Mayr fashioned an opera full of colour, interweaving instrumental interludes and dances into his arias, cavatinas and choruses, and crafting his own very personal vision of the nwe Italian opera seria.

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Stabat Mater in F minor (2017)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Stabat Mater in F minor (2017)

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Stabat Mater in F minor (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 287 Mb | Total time: 59:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573781 | Recorded: 2014

Restored by Mayr expert Frans Hauk from two extant manuscript versions and heard here in its world première recording, Simon Mayr’s Stabat mater in F minor was singled out by a contemporary biographer “for its marvellous effect” and “heavenly beauty”. Mayr himself frequently returned to this work, recycling one of its movements in his great Requiem. The song-like Ave maris stella builds on a hymn that dates back to the 8th century.

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Requiem in G minor (2015)

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Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Requiem in G minor (2015)

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Requiem in G minor (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 480 Mb | Total time: 116:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573419-20 | Recorded: 2013

Admired for his fusion of German and Italianate musical elements, Johann Simon Mayr is increasingly recognised as one of the most intriguing and influential composers of his time. His Requiem in G minor is shrouded in compositional obscurity but it is clear that the published version is surpassed both in scale and instrumentation by the elaborate edition performed here, which has been assembled from the autograph manuscripts. Small sections were composed by Donizetti and then corrected by his teacher, Mayr. Church style and more Romanticised elements are finely balanced in this important example of Mayr’s compositional language.

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Miserere & Litaniae lauretanae (2017)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Miserere & Litaniae lauretanae (2017)

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus - Johann Simon Mayr: Miserere & Litaniae lauretanae (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 268 Mb | Total time: 57:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573782 | Recorded: 2014

Mayr had already earned esteem in Venice for his church music when, in 1802, he assumed the post of maestro di cappella at the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo. With a modest orchestra at his disposal he soon composed a Miserere in G minor, in which solo orchestral instruments often carry on a dialogue with the vocal soloists in a succession of powerful, descriptive and beautiful arias and choruses. The Litaniae Lauretanae, cast in three parts, features wide leaping figures and sighing melodies.

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Iacob a Labano fugiens (2015)

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Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Iacob a Labano fugiens (2015)

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Iacob a Labano fugiens (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 298 Mb | Total time: 78:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573237 | Recorded: 2011

Bavarian-born Simon Mayr spent much of his life in Italy where he promoted Viennese classical composition but also absorbed much from his studies in Bergamo and Venice. Though he was one of the most admired operatic composers of his day—he taught Donizetti, who revered him—he was particularly noted for his sacred oratorios. Jacob’s Flight from Laban is marked by his characteristically vibrant musical palette, with important writing for wind instruments, operatically-based arias and confidently-handled ensembles and choruses. Franz Hauk is Mayr’s leading interpreter and acclaimed for his many recordings.

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Il Sogno di Partenope (2014)

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Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Il Sogno di Partenope (2014)

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Il Sogno di Partenope (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 257 Mb | Total time: 65:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573236 | Recorded: 2012

Franz Hauk and the Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble have spearheaded the revival of the music of Johann Simon Mayr who was born in Bavaria but lived in Italy. In the latest instalment of their critically acclaimed recordings they turn to Il sogno di Partenope, an allegorical staged cantata composed to mark the rebuilding of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples following a fire in February 1816. Mayr’s significance as an intermediary between the opera seria of the late eighteenth-century and the melodrama of the early-nineteenth is reflected in this important work, a unique kind of ‘cantata opera’ of which only the second act survives.

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Tobiae matrimonium (2009)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Tobiae matrimonium (2009)

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Tobiae matrimonium (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 396 Mb | Total time: 95:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.570752-53 | Recorded: 2007

One of the most important composers of opera and sacred music between Mozart and Rossini, and Donizetti’s teacher, Johann Simon Mayr also composed several major oratorios, including David and The Marriage of Tobias. Like Haydn’s more famous Il Ritorno di Tobia, Mayr’s work recounts how the archangel Raphael miraculously helps the boy Tobias to cure his aged father’s blindness. Conductor Franz Hauk prepared the performing edition for this exciting new recording.

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Gioas (2012)

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Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Gioas (2012)

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Gioas (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 486 Mb | Total time: 111:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572710-11 | Recorded: 2010

Bavarian-born Johann Simon Mayr achieved renown as an Italianate opera composer, his earlier work taking the form of sacred oratorios. Gioas is a combination of both forms, being a parody-oratorio closely following Mayr’s opera I misteri eleusini, which was considered by Stendhal to be “among [the] most powerful musical works of the age”. This mythical drama of kings, priests and goddesses was ideally suited for its intended devotional use, and it joins other pioneering recordings from Franz Hauk which include David and Samuele.

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Il sagrifizio di Jefte (2013)

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Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Il sagrifizio di Jefte (2013)

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Il sagrifizio di Jefte (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 460 Mb | Total time: 111:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572719-20 | Recorded: 2009

It is only in the last few years, largely as a result of the pioneering performances of the Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble conducted by Franz Hauk, that Mayr has come to be valued as one of the most significant composers of operatic and sacred music of his time. Il sagrifizio di Jefte (The Sacrifice of Jephtha), first performed in 1795, is a dramatic oratorio with a wealth of variety in both the vocal and instrumental writing, which foreshadows the operas to come.

Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus - Donizetti & Mayr: Messa di Gloria and Credo in D (2016)

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Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus - Donizetti & Mayr: Messa di Gloria and Credo in D (2016)

Franz Hauk, Concerto de Bassus - Donizetti & Mayr: Messa di Gloria and Credo in D (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 367 Mb | Total time: 86:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573605 | Recorded: 2014

While the German tradition observes a strict distinction between sacred and secular styles, the 19th-century Italian Mass can feel more akin to attending an operatic performance. Donizetti’s church music, consisting of at least a hundred items, has hardly been explored. Individual movements were often later recycled by the composer, in cantata-like fashion, to form a complete Mass, and it is this ad hoc technique that Franz Hauk has used to create a new work, the Messa di Gloria and Credo in D. This includes an expansive Qui sedes with its violin solo written for the famous violinist-composer Pietro Rovelli, and is completed with movements by Johann Simon Mayr from whom Donizetti learned his compositional craft in settings of sacred texts.