Choral Cantatas around 1700

Bach, Johann Sebastian, Buxtehude, Dietrich, Jacobi, Christian August, Kegel, Emanuel, Krieger, Johann, Meder, Johann Valentin, Österreich, Georg, Pachelbel, Johann Christoph, różni kompozytorzy, Schneider, Conrad Michael, Topf , Johann, Welter, Johann Samuel

L'arpa festante

CPO 555456

Choral cantatas from Buxtehude to JS Bach

The 12 vocal works on this new double CD with L'arpa festante follow without exception the type of the choral cantata "per omnes versus", i.e. a type in which (almost) all the verses of a chorale poem are set to music, and represent a representative cross-section of the most diverse composers. This genre is to be distinguished from a cantata with chorale, which is characterised by a mixture of different texts. It is also distinguished from the historically older chorale motet, which does without obbligato instruments, and from the chorale concerto, which is often through-composed. The "heyday" of the chorale cantata "per omnes versus" mentioned at the beginning lies in the period after the Thirty Years' War until shortly after 1700. After that, the chorale - including the chorale poem - loses its importance; it is only with Johann Sebastian Bach that the chorale is given a new, pre-eminent position in the church music of his time, albeit under changed stylistic conditions.

Works:

•Dieterich Buxtehude: Nimm von uns, Herr
•Johann Topf: Mit Fried und Freud
•Johann Pachelbel: Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan
•Johann Valentin Meder: Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder
•Johann Krieger: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
•Emanuel Kegel: Meinem Jesum lass ich nicht
•Johann Samuel Welter: Wer nur den lieben Gott; Jesu, meine Freude
•Georg Österreich: Herr Jesu Christ
•Christian August Jacobi: Komm, heilger Geist
•Conrad Michael Schneider: Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ
•Johann Sebastian Bach: Christ lag in Todes Banden

CD x 2

CPO

01/09/2023

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