Graupner: Complete Cantatas for two sopranos and bass

Heyerick, Florian, Kirchheimer BachConsort

CPO 555577

Soloists: Marie Luise Werneburg - soprano; Hanna Zumsande - soprano; Dominik Wörner - bass

Graupner's cantatas for two sopranos & bass

This CD production continues the successful recording series of recent years with works by Christoph Graupner. The first project in 2017 focused on Epiphany cantatas with the Finnish concertmaster Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen. Rudolf Lutz from St. Gallen led the second project in 2018 with solo & dialogue cantatas. In 2020, cantatas with obbligato bassoon and Sergio Azzolini as bassoon soloist were on the program. In the present recording all cantatas for two sopranos and bass were selected, edited from the autographs and recorded for the first time. The five cantatas, written in the years 1720 and 1721, form a church year arc from Holy Week through Easter to the Sunday Jubilate. The trio instrumentation of the vocal group with two sopranos and bass corresponds to a 17th-century tradition to which Graupner evidently consciously took up here. Another special feature of church music at the Darmstadt court was that Graupner was able to have the soprano parts performed by professional singers. This allowed him to draw on a wide range of expression and high virtuosity in his compositions.

Works:

•Graupner: Kantate zum Gründonnerstag "Ein jeglicher sei gesinnet" GWV 1126 / 21
•Graupner: Kantate zum Karfreitag "Zerfließ, mein Herz, in Blut" GWV 1127 / 20
•Kantate zum Ostersonntag "Nun ist auferstanden" GWV 1128 / 21
•Kantate zum 3. Ostertag "Christ lag in Todesbanden" GWV 1130 / 21
•Kantate zu Jubilate "Du schönes Wohnhaus" GWV 133 / 20

CD x 1

CPO

5/4/23

761203557721