Musica Pacifica, Christine Brandes, Jennifer Lane - Telemann: Chamber Cantatas & Trio Sonatas (2001)

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Title: Telemann: Chamber Cantatas & Trio Sonatas
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Dorian Recordigs
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 01:17:03
Total Size: 428 Mb
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6 Sonates corellisantes: Sonata No. 6 in D Major, TWV 42:D8
Musica Pacifica
1. I. Pastorale: Moderato 00:02:40
2. II. Corrente: Vivace 00:02:13
3. III. Gavotta: Allegro 00:01:57
4. IV. Grave 00:00:54
5. V. Vivace 00:01:49
In gering- und rauhen Schalen, TWV 1:941
Brandes, Christine, soprano
Musica Pacifica
6. Aria: In gering - und rauhen Schalen 00:04:50
7. Recitative: O Eitelkeit, du kluger Sterblicher 00:02:27
8. Aria: Nicht uns, nein, nein, nur dir allein 00:03:39
Ergeuss dich zur Salbung, TWV 1:447
Lane, Jennifer, mezzo-soprano
Musica Pacifica
9. Aria: Ergeuss dich zur Salbung 00:06:47
10. Recitativo: Samaria empfing den heil'gen Geist 00:02:18
11. Aria: Schwarzer Geist der Dunkelheit 00:06:57
Telemann, Georg Philipp
6 Sonates corellisantes: Sonata No. 4 in E Major, TWV 42:E3
Musica Pacifica
12. I. Andante 00:01:34
13. II. Allemanda: Allegro 00:03:03
14. III. Largo 00:01:37
15. IV. Giga: Allegro 00:02:21
Durchsuche dich, TWV 1:399
Brandes, Christine, soprano
Musica Pacifica
16. Aria: Durchsuche dich, O stolzer Geist 00:06:52
17. Recitative: Ach, welcher sich 00:01:48
18. Aria: Herr der Gnade, Gott des Lichts 00:04:21
Halt ein mit deinem Wetterstrahl, TWV 1:715
Lane, Jennifer, mezzo-soprano
Musica Pacifica
19. Aria: Halt ein mit deinem Wetterstrahle 00:03:17
20. Recitative: Begluckte Stunden 00:02:06
21. Aria: Hemmet die Bache der sturzenden Tranen 00:03:44
Erwag, o Mensch, sechs ganze Tage, TWV 487b
Brandes, Christine, soprano
Musica Pacifica
22. Aria: Erwag, O Mensch 00:04:21
23. Recitative: Ja! wer die Sussigkeit 00:01:05
24. Aria: Ergetzende Ruhe begnadigter Herzen 00:04:45

Performers:
Christine Brandes (soprano)
Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano)
Musica Pacifica:
Judith Linsenberg (recorder & direction)
Elizabeth Blumenstock (violin & direction)
David Morris (cello)
Michael Eagan (archlute)
Byron Schenkman (harpsichord & organ)

Telemann could be exuberantly grotesque and also almost inhumanly serious. He loved large and brash and sometimes outré instrumental ensembles, and wrote brilliantly for them, but he also wrote copiously for small groups and for amateurs, in the most elegant style. One or two of his cantatas were once pardonably mistaken for Bach, and one or two movements of his orchestral suites might even now be mistaken for a mid-twentieth-century composer in a puckish mood. He is, in short, rather a difficult personality to pin down.
The music on this program belongs to the simpler and more straightforward end of the Telemannian spectrum, and all dates from his first fifteen years in the employ of the City of Hamburg, an appointment he held from 1721 until his death in 1767. That position was an arduous one, entailing (among other things) supplying the music of Hamburg's five principal churches. Telemann was responsible for two cantatas each Sunday and feast-day (that is, better than one hundred forty cantatas a year), as well as one Passion setting yearly and music for innumerable civic and occasional functions. -- Michelle Dulak