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Matthias Jung, Sächsisches Vocalensemble, Batzdorfer Hofkapelle - Baroque Christmas Cantatas from Central Germany Vol. 2 (2021)

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Matthias Jung, Sächsisches Vocalensemble, Batzdorfer Hofkapelle - Baroque Christmas Cantatas from Central Germany Vol. 2 (2021)

Matthias Jung, Sächsisches Vocalensemble, Batzdorfer Hofkapelle - Baroque Christmas Cantatas From Central Germany, Vol. 2 (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 253 Mb | Total time: 56:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 555491-2 | Recorded: 2021

The Sächsisches Vocalensemble under Matthias Jung has now recorded its second selection of Christmas gems for cpo from one of the most important collections of Lutheran church music, the St. Augustin School in Grimma, Saxony. The focus: festive, magnificent church cantatas (most of them including Christmas trumpet splendor) by composers from Central Germany who were famous musicians and held prominent posts during the years before and after 1700. To name only a few: Johann Schelle, Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, and Johann Rosenmüller, as well as composers such as Christian Liebe or Gottfried Vogel who are no longer remembered today but whose music brings wonder to modern listeners.

Damien Guillon, Le Banquet Céleste - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach: Lieder (2021)

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Damien Guillon, Le Banquet Céleste - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach: Lieder (2021)

Damien Guillon, Le Banquet Céleste - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach: Lieder (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 348 Mb | Total time: 71:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Records | # ALPHA 725 | Recorded: 2020

Accompanied by his ensemble Le Banquet Céleste, the countertenor Damien Guillon places his voice at the service of a programme of vocal pieces by the German Baroque composer Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, a large part of whose output was destroyed in a fire at Rudolstadt Castle in 1735. Among the works that have come down to us are the two collections Harmonische Freude musikalischer Freunde, containing respectively fifty and twenty-five arias for one to four solo voices, instrumental ensemble and basso continuo. Most of the German texts of these pieces depict humankind at the mercy of an unpredictable and volatile destiny.

Ludger Rémy, Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein - Benda, Gessel, Erlebach: Cantatas (1999)

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Ludger Rémy, Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein - Benda, Gessel, Erlebach: Cantatas (1999)

Ludger Rémy, Telemann-Kammerorchester Michaelstein - Benda, Gessel, Erlebach: Cantatas (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 74:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 650-2 | Recorded: 1998

This disc brings together four sacred cantatas by composers who only infrequently feature in these pages. Best known of them is Georg Anton Benda, brother of the celebrated violinist Franz, who served Frederick the Great for over half-a-century. Georg Benda made a name for himself with his Singspiels and innovative melodramas, which made a deep impression on Mozart. There is nothing innovative about either of the two cantatas with instruments performed here, though from an expressive standpoint they are far from being run-of-the-mill. Both belong to a cycle prepared in 1761 while Benda was Music Director at the Court of Gotha.

Peter Barczi, Capricornus Consort Basel - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach: Süße Freudschaft, edles Band (2012)

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Peter Barczi, Capricornus Consort Basel - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach: Süße Freudschaft, edles Band (2012)

Peter Barczi, Capricornus Consort Basel - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach: Süße Freudschaft, edles Band (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 364 Mb | Total time: 64:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Christophorus ‎| CHR 77366 | Recorded: 2012

Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714) is one of those composers who was forgotten by history. Originally from East Frisia, he arrived at the court of Rudolstadt in Thuringia at the age of 24 to serve as music director, remaining there for the rest of his life: the lustre of the court faded and the collection of over 2500 works by himself and others, amassed by Erlebach during the course of his life, was destroyed by fire. Thus this once significant composer 'from the Province' faded from memory.

Berliner Barock-Compagney - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach: Ouvertures, Sonatas (2004)

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Berliner Barock-Compagney - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach: Ouvertures, Sonatas (2004)

Berliner Barock-Compagney - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach: Ouvertures, Sonatas (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 336 Mb | Total time: 64:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio ‎| 67 074 | Recorded: 2002

Was sophisticated music-making possible at the court of a minor German prince in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries? Yes, indeed! It happened in the Thuringian city of Rudolstadt where Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, the Kappellmeister to the High Count of Schwarzburg and Hohnstein, incorporated mainstream European music in his works even though he rarely travelled beyond his relatively small area in all those 35 years and never once did he venture beyond the German- speaking world. Come and learn and listen to this little known yet amazing composer who learned his craft from travelling musicians.