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Music for the Christmas Season by Buxtehude and Friends Musicmusic for for the the Christmas Christmas Season Byby Buxtehude Buxtehude and and Friends Friends
Music for the Christmas season by Buxtehude and friends MusicMusic for for the the Christmas Christmas season byby Buxtehude Buxtehude and and friends friends Else Torp, soprano ET Kate Browton, soprano KB Kristin Mulders, mezzo-soprano KM Mark Chambers, countertenor MC Johan Linderoth, tenor JL Paul Bentley-Angell, tenor PB Jakob Bloch Jespersen, bass JB Steffen Bruun, bass SB Fredrik From, violin Jesenka Balic Zunic, violin Kanerva Juutilainen, viola Judith-Maria Blomsterberg, cello Mattias Frostenson, violone Jane Gower, bassoon Allan Rasmussen, organ Dacapo is supported by the Cover: Fresco from Elmelunde Church, Møn, Denmark. The Twelfth Night scene, painted by the Elmelunde Master around 1500. The Wise Men presenting gifts to the infant Jesus.. THE ANNUNCIATION & ADVENT THE NATIVITY Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595–1663) – Preambulum in F major ������������1:25 Dietrich Buxtehude – Das neugeborne Kindelein ������������������������������������6:24 organ solo (chamber organ) ET, MC, PB, JB | violins, viola, bassoon, violone and organ Christian Geist (c. 1640–1711) – Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern ������5:35 Franz Tunder (1614–1667) – Ein kleines Kindelein ��������������������������������������4:09 ET | violins, cello and organ KB | violins, viola, cello, violone and organ Johann Christoph Bach (1642–1703) – Merk auf, mein Herz. 10:07 Dietrich Buxtehude – In dulci jubilo ����������������������������������������������������������5:50 ET, MC, JL, JB (Coro I) ET, MC, JB | violins, cello and organ KB, KM, PB, SB (Coro II) | cello, bassoon, violone and organ Heinrich Scheidemann – Preambulum in D minor. .3:38 Dietrich Buxtehude (c. 1637-1707) – Nun komm der Heiden Heiland. .1:53 organ solo (chamber organ) organ solo (main organ) NEW YEAR, EPIPHANY & ANNUNCIATION THE SHEPHERDS Dietrich Buxtehude – Jesu dulcis memoria ����������������������������������������������8:27 Dietrich Buxtehude – Fürchtet euch nicht. -
Fall Eggebrecht“, Online-Publikation Hamburg 2010
Bitte zitieren Sie diesen Beitrag folgendermaßen: Friedrich Geiger, Quellenkritische Anmerkungen zum „Fall Eggebrecht“, Online-Publikation Hamburg 2010. URL:http://www.uni-hamburg.de/Musikwissenschaft/buch_/geiger_eggebrecht.pdf Friedrich Geiger Quellenkritische Anmerkungen zum „Fall Eggebrecht“ Von einem „Fall Eggebrecht“ ist die Rede, seit der Musikwissenschaftler und Jour- nalist Boris von Haken am 17. September letzten Jahres auf der Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung in Tübingen gravierende Vorwürfe erhob, die er seither in zwei Artikeln für die ZEIT sowie in mehreren Interviews bekräftigt und damit breit gestreut hat.1 Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, so die zentrale Aussage Ha- kens, habe im Zweiten Weltkrieg an einer Massenerschießung von mindestens 14.7002 Juden mitgewirkt, die ein deutsches Mordkommando am 9., 11., 12. und 13. Dezember 1941 auf der Halbinsel Krim durchführte, etwas außerhalb der Haupt- stadt Simferopol. Haken schreibt, Eggebrecht sei „an allen Stadien, an allen Phasen der Ermordung der Juden in Simferopol beteiligt“3 gewesen. Konsequent bezeichne- te er deshalb in einem Radiointerview den Musikwissenschaftler als „NS-Täter“.4 Entsprechende Resonanz blieb nicht aus. So war wenige Tage später in der Welt zu 1 Boris von Haken: „Holocaust und Musikwissenschaft. Zur Biographie von Hans Heinrich Eg- gebrecht“, Vortrag auf der Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung in Tübingen, 17. September 2009; ders., „Spalier am Mördergraben“, in: Die ZEIT, Nr. 52, 17. Dezember 2009; ders. „Erdrückende Quellenlage“, in: Die ZEIT, Nr. 3, 14. Januar 2010; sowie „Haken über Eg- gebrecht: Beweislage nicht lückenlos“, in: Badische Zeitung vom 8. Januar 2010. 2 So im Tübinger Vortrag als „gesicherte Mindestzahl“. In „Spalier am Mördergraben“ ist hinge- gen von „mindestens 14 000 Juden“ die Rede. -
Introduction
Copyright © Thomas Braatz, 20071 Introduction This paper proposes to trace the origin and rather quick demise of the Andreas Stübel Theory, a theory which purportedly attempted to designate a librettist who supplied Johann Sebastian Bach with texts and worked with him when the latter composed the greater portion of the 2nd ‘chorale-cantata’ cycle in Leipzig from 1724 to early 1725. It was Hans- Joachim Schulze who first proposed this theory in 1998 after which it encountered a mixed reception with Christoph Wolff lending it some support in his Bach biography2 and in his notes for the Koopman Bach-Cantata recording series3, but with Martin Geck4 viewing it rather less enthusiastically as a theory that resembled a ball thrown onto the roulette wheel and having the same chance of winning a jackpot. 1 This document may be freely copied and distributed providing that distribution is made in full and the author’s copyright notice is retained. 2 Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (Norton, 2000), (first published as a paperback in 2001), p. 278. 3 Christoph Wolff, ‘The Leipzig church cantatas: the chorale cantata cycle (II:1724-1725)’ in The Complete Cantatas volumes 10 and 11 as recorded by Ton Koopman and published by Erato Disques (Paris, France, 2001). 4 Martin Geck, Bach: Leben und Werk, (Hamburg, 2000), p. 400. 1 Andreas Stübel Andreas Stübel (also known as Stiefel = ‘boot’) was born as the son of an innkeeper in Dresden on December 15, 1653. In Dresden he first attended the Latin School located there. Then, in 1668, he attended the Prince’s School (“Fürstenschule”) in Meißen. -
Bach: Goldberg Variations
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge Final Logo Brand Extension Logo 06.27.12 BACH GOLDBERG VARIATIONS Parker Ramsay | harp PARKER RAMSAY Parker Ramsay was the first American to hold the post of Organ Scholar at King’s, from 2010–2013, following a long line of prestigious predecessors. Organ Scholars at King’s are undergraduate students at the College with a range of roles and responsibilities, including playing for choral services in the Chapel, assisting in the training of the probationers and Choristers, and conducting the full choir from time to time. The position of Organ Scholar is held for the duration of the student’s degree course. This is Parker’s first solo harp recording, and the second recording by an Organ Scholar on the College’s own label. 2 BACH GOLDBERG VARIATIONS Parker Ramsay harp 3 CD 78:45 1 Aria 3:23 2 Variatio 1 1:57 3 Variatio 2 1:54 4 Variatio 3 Canone all’Unisono 2:38 5 Variatio 4 1:15 6 Variatio 5 1:43 7 Variatio 6 Canone alla Seconda 1:26 8 Variatio 7 al tempo di Giga 2:24 9 Variatio 8 2:01 10 Variatio 9 Canone alla Terza 1:49 11 Variatio 10 Fughetta 1:45 12 Variatio 11 2:22 13 Variatio 12 Canone alla Quarta in moto contrario 3:21 14 Variatio 13 4:36 15 Variatio 14 2:07 16 Variatio 15 Canone alla Quinta. Andante 3:24 17 Variatio 16 Ouverture 3:26 18 Variatio 17 2:23 19 Variatio 18 Canone alla Sesta 1:58 20 Variatio 19 1:45 21 Variatio 20 3:10 22 Variatio 21 Canone alla Settima 2:31 23 Variatio 22 alla breve 1:42 24 Variatio 23 2:33 25 Variatio 24 Canone all’Ottava 2:30 26 Variatio 25 Adagio 4:31 27 Variatio 26 2:07 28 Variatio 27 Canone alla Nona 2:18 29 Variatio 28 2:29 30 Variatio 29 2:04 31 Variatio 30 Quodlibet 2:38 32 Aria da Capo 2:35 4 AN INTRODUCTION analysis than usual. -
Liturgical Drama in Bach's St. Matthew Passion
Uri Golomb Liturgical drama in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion Bach’s two surviving Passions are often cited as evidence that he was perfectly capable of producing operatic masterpieces, had he chosen to devote his creative powers to this genre. This view clashes with the notion that church music ought to be calm and measured; indeed, Bach’s contract as Cantor of St. Thomas’s School in Leipzig stipulated: In order to preserve the good order in the churches, [he would] so arrange the music that it shall not last too long, and shall be of such nature as not to make an operatic impression, but rather incite the listeners to devotion. (New Bach Reader, p. 105) One could argue, however, that Bach was never entirely faithful to this pledge, and that in the St. Matthew Passion he came close to violating it entirely. This article explores the fusion of the liturgical and the dramatic in the St. Matthew Passion, viewing the work as the combination of two dramas: the story of Christ’s final hours, and the Christian believer’s response to this story. This is not, of course, the only viable approach to this masterpiece. The St. Matthew Passion is a complex, heterogeneous work, rich in musical and expressive detail yet also displaying an impressive unity across its vast dimensions. This article does not pretend to explore all the work’s aspects; it only provides an overview of one of its distinctive features. 1. The St. Matthew Passion and the Passion genre The Passion is a musical setting of the story of Christ’s arrest, trial and crucifixion, intended as an elaboration of the Gospel reading in the Easter liturgy. -
Haydn's the Creation
Program Notes In the fall of 1790, a man appeared at Haydn’s rooms in Vienna with the abrupt introduction, “I am Salomon of London and have come to fetch you. Tomorrow we will arrange an accord.” Johann Peter Salomon’s meeting with the 58-year old Haydn was a turning point in Haydn’s long career. Under the impresario’s canny direction, Haydn’s two extended visits to London were not only extremely lucrative, but also musically invigorating, and he wrote some of his greatest works including his last twelve symphonies and his last six concert masses after 1791. And his sojourn in London directly led to what is perhaps his most popular work, the extraordinary and daringly original oratorio The Creation. Salomon’s proposal came at a particularly appropri- ate time for Haydn. Haydn was arguably the most renowned composer in Europe, despite having spent the last 30 years in the service of the House of Es- terházy. Prince Nikolaus entertained lavishly and took every opportunity to showcase his increasingly famous Kapellmeister, arranging elaborate musical evenings and even building an amphitheater where Haydn could present operas. The prince gave Haydn the opportunity to accept outside commissions and to publish, and there arose such an insatiable de- mand for Haydn’s music that pirated editions flourished and unscrupulous publishers actually affixed Haydn’s name to music written by his brother Michael, his pupils, and even random composers. But Prince Nikolaus sud- denly died in 1790, and his successor Prince Anton disbanded most of the Esterházy musical establishment. Haydn retained his nominal position as Kapellmeister, but had no official duties and was no longer required to be in residence. -
What Handel Taught the Viennese About the Trombone
291 What Handel Taught the Viennese about the Trombone David M. Guion Vienna became the musical capital of the world in the late eighteenth century, largely because its composers so successfully adapted and blended the best of the various national styles: German, Italian, French, and, yes, English. Handel’s oratorios were well known to the Viennese and very influential.1 His influence extended even to the way most of the greatest of them wrote trombone parts. It is well known that Viennese composers used the trombone extensively at a time when it was little used elsewhere in the world. While Fux, Caldara, and their contemporaries were using the trombone not only routinely to double the chorus in their liturgical music and sacred dramas, but also frequently as a solo instrument, composers elsewhere used it sparingly if at all. The trombone was virtually unknown in France. It had disappeared from German courts and was no longer automatically used by composers working in German towns. J.S. Bach used the trombone in only fifteen of his more than 200 extant cantatas. Trombonists were on the payroll of San Petronio in Bologna as late as 1729, apparently longer than in most major Italian churches, and in the town band (Concerto Palatino) until 1779. But they were available in England only between about 1738 and 1741. Handel called for them in Saul and Israel in Egypt. It is my contention that the influence of these two oratorios on Gluck and Haydn changed the way Viennese composers wrote trombone parts. Fux, Caldara, and the generations that followed used trombones only in church music and oratorios. -
BACH IS BACK in BERLIN: the Return of the Sing-Akademie Archive from Ukraine in the Context of Displaced Cultural Treasures and Restitution Politics
BACH IS BACK IN BERLIN: The Return of the Sing-Akademie Archive from Ukraine in the Context of Displaced Cultural Treasures and Restitution Politics Patricia Kennedy Grimsted Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research 910 17th Street, N.W. Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20006 TITLE VIII PROGRAM Project Information* Contractor: Harvard University Principal Investigator: Patricia Kennedy Grimsted Council Contract Number: 816-03g Date: June 9, 2003 Copyright Information Individual researchers retain the copyright on their work products derived from research funded through a contract or grant from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER). However, the NCEEER and the United States Government have the right to duplicate and disseminate, in written and electronic form, reports submitted to NCEEER to fulfill Contract or Grant Agreements either (a) for NCEEER’s own internal use, or (b) for use by the United States Government, and as follows: (1) for further dissemination to domestic, international, and foreign governments, entities and/or individuals to serve official United States Government purposes or (2) for dissemination in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act or other law or policy of the United States Government granting the public access to documents held by the United States Government. Neither NCEEER nor the United States Government nor any recipient of this Report may use it for commercial sale. * The work leading to this report was supported in part by contract or grant funds provided by the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, funds which were made available by the U.S. -
24 April 2020
24 April 2020 12:01 AM Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Two Hungarian Dances - no 11 in D minor, no 5 in G minor Sinfonia Varsovia, Robert Trevino (conductor) PLPR 12:09 AM Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) Etude no 4 in G major - from Studies for guitar Heiki Matlik (guitar) EEER 12:13 AM Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, cello and orchestra RV.565 Op 3 No 11 RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Pavle Despalj (conductor) SIRTVS 12:24 AM Gertrude van den Bergh (1793-1840) Rondeau, Op 3 Frans van Ruth (piano) NLNOS 12:31 AM Karol Jozef Lipinski (1790-1861) Variations on a theme of Rossini's 'La Cenerentola' Miroslaw Lawrynowicz (violin), Krystyna Makowska-Lawrynowicz (piano) PLPR 12:46 AM Hugo Alfven (1872-1960) King Gustav II Adolf, Op 49 (Suite) Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niklas Willen (conductor) SESR 01:02 AM Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) Concerto for flute and strings in A major (Wq.168) Robert Aitken (flute), CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Mario Bernardi (conductor) CACBC 01:21 AM Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Komm Jesu, komm, BWV 229 - motet Voces Suaves, Cafebaum CHSRF 01:30 AM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) 10 Variations on 'Unser dummer Pobel meint', K455 Shai Wosner (piano) GBBBC 01:43 AM Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Violin Fantasy in C major, Op 131 Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nicholas Harnoncourt (conductor) NLNPO 02:01 AM Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Sinfonia da Requiem, Op 20 Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Karina Canellakis (conductor) SESR 02:24 AM Ludwig -
Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion from 1725: a Liturgical Interpretation
Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion from 1725: A Liturgical Interpretation MARKUS RATHEY When we listen to Johann Sebastian Bach’s vocal works today, we do this most of the time in a concert. Bach’s passions and his B minor Mass, his cantatas and songs are an integral part of our canon of concert music. Nothing can be said against this practice. The passions and the Mass have been a part of the Western concert repertoire since the 1830s, and there may not have been a “Bach Revival” in the nineteenth century (and no editions of Bach’s works for that matter) without Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s concert performance of the St. Matthew Passion in the Berlin Singakademie in 1829.1 However, the original sitz im leben of both large-scaled works like his passions, and his smaller cantatas, is the liturgy. Most of his vocal works were composed for use during services in the churches of Leipzig. The pieces unfold their meaning in the context of the liturgy. They engage in a complex intertextual relationship with the liturgical texts that frame them, and with the musical (and theological) practices of the liturgical year of which they are a part. The following essay will outline the liturgical context of the second version of the St. John Passion (BWV 245a) Bach performed on Good Friday 1725 in Leipzig. The piece is a revision of the familiar version of the passion Bach had composed the previous year. The 1725 version of the passion was performed by the Yale Schola Cantorum in 2006, and was accompanied by several lectures I gave in New Haven and New York City. -
JB17 Poeschel 2018 10 30 Familie Graun in Preußen Manuskript WP2
Wilhelm Poeschel – Familie Graun in Preußen 3. Quellen zu biografischen Daten der Familien Johann Gottlieb und Carl Heinrich Graun (Auswahl) Samuel Schmiel Bestattungsbuch St. Petri, ELAB Sig. 5820-1, S. 107 (*1658; †1.9.1734) 1734 I September I 1. Herr Samuel Schmiel, Königl. Geheimer Kammer Diener, 77. Jahr, am Schlagfluß, den 5. Anna Regina Schmiel, Bestattungsbuch St. Petri, ELAB Sig. 5820-1, S. 8 geb. Thering 1704 Aug. 15. Hr. Geheimer Cammerdiener Schmieles Ehe Frau, in S.P. (*um 1680; †15.8.1704) Friederich Schmiel Taufbuch St. Petri, ELAB Sig. 5789-2, S. 596 (*17.5.1700; †2.8.1700) Pr: Herr Samuel Schmiel Ser: churfürstlichen Herrn (?) brandng geheimer Cammer-Diener I Mr: Fr: Anna Regina geborene Theringen laßen Tauffen am 17 May ihr am 14 deßelbh Monath zwischen 3 und ½ 4 Uhr geborenes Söhn- lein mit dem Nahmen I Friedrich I Die Gevattern waren I S: Churfürstl. Durch- laucht Friederich an deßen Platz der Hoffmarschall Excellents d(er) Herr von Wusrau (?) zugegen gewest. I Herr Lucas Heinrich Therig Archediaconus d(er) Peter Kirch. Die Fr: Kriegs Rähtin v. Kraut, geborene Schindlern, Die Frau Mommortin, Loff […][…] (?) Bestattungsbuch St. Petri, ELAB Sig. 5820-1, S. 1536 1700, Augt. 2. Herr Geheimer Cammerdiener Schmiels Kind, zu S.P. Anna Theodora Schmiel, Taufbuch Friedrich Werdersche Kirche, ELAB Sig. 5117-1, S. 151 geb. Simonetti, 1684, 27 December Inf: Anna Theodora I Pat: Johann Simonetti, Stucator156 I Mat: Euphrosina Hoffekuntzin I Pathen I 1 Hr. Christian Kuntzleben. 2 Hr. (#27.12.1684; †15.5.1708) Peter Jenicke. 3 Jfr: Scharlotta …(?) 4 Fr […] 5 Fr. -
MTO 19.3: Brody, Review of Matthew Dirst, Engaging Bach
Volume 19, Number 3, September 2013 Copyright © 2013 Society for Music Theory Review of Matthew Dirst, Engaging Bach: The Keyboard Legacy from Marpurg to Mendelssohn (Cambridge University Press, 2012) Christopher Brody KEYWORDS: Bach, Bach reception, Mozart, fugue, chorale, Well-Tempered Clavier Received July 2013 [1] Historical research on Johann Sebastian Bach entered its modern era in the late 1950s with the development, spearheaded by Alfred Dürr, Georg von Dadelsen, and Wisso Weiss, of the so-called “new chronology” of his works.(1) In parallel with this revolution, the history of the dissemination and reception of Bach was also being rewritten. Whereas Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel wrote, in 1945, that “Bach and his works ... [were] practically forgotten by the generations following his” (358), by 1998 Christoph Wolff could describe the far more nuanced understanding of Bach reception that had arisen in the intervening years in terms of “two complementary aspects”: on the one hand, the beginning of a more broadly based public reception of Bach’s music in the early nineteenth century, for which Mendelssohn’s 1829 performance of the St. Matthew Passion represents a decisive milestone; on the other hand, the uninterrupted reception of a more private kind, largely confined to circles of professional musicians, who regarded Bach’s fugues and chorales in particular as a continuing challenge, a source of inspiration, and a yardstick for measuring compositional quality. (485–86) [2] In most respects it is with the latter (though chronologically earlier) aspect that Matthew Dirst’s survey Engaging Bach: The Keyboard Legacy from Marpurg to Mendelssohn concerns itself, serving as a fine single-volume introduction to the “private” side of Bach reception up to about 1850.