Telemann, Pachelbel, Buttstett: Das ist meine Freude, Sopran Cantatas from the Großfahner-Collection

Jonas, Maria;
Chursaechsische Capelle Leipzig

CPO 777 546-2

The little community of Großfahner in Thuringia with its more than six hundred manuscript compositions by some fifty famous and not-so-well-known Thuringian and Saxon church music directors has in its possession what is the largest manuscript collection of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Central Germany. Most of these »church pieces« were copied by the then church music director Abraham Nagel or acquired by him in exchange. Nagel added to this collection with further copies from the neighboring community of Eschenbergen and with compositions of his own. This collection of sacred compositions from the period between 1650 and 1750 thus offers an excellent look at the intensive cultivation of figural music in two Central German villages from the middle of the seventeenth century until Johann Sebastian Bach's death. The soprano Maria Jonas has selected eight cantatas offering impressive proof of the fact that demanding music was performed even beyond the royal courts.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

CPO

27-09-2011

761203754625