Gunar Letzbor - The Music of the Habsburg Empire (2015) [10CD Box Set]

For the Austrian baroque violinist Gunar Letzbor, the music of the Habsburg Empire is significantly different from that of the other European cultural centres in France, Italy and Germany. The Habsburg Imperial Court was a melting pot of many different cultures in which the zest for living of southerners, the melancholy of the Slavs, the formalistic traits of the French, the courtly ceremony of the Spanish and the original Alpine culture of the German-speaking region come together. In his concert project "Klang der Kulturen" (The Sound of the Cultures), together with his ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria, he has occupied himself over a period of ten years with the individual countries that formed the roots of and influences on the music of baroque Vienna, documenting them in the form of live recordings.

The result of this work is a box containing 10 CDs, each of which represents a country: the first six CDs are dedicated to the Habsburg patrimonial lands of Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Bohemia and Moravia. Letzbor does not hesitate to immerse himself in the traditional folk music of these countries in order to document the major influences of this music on the art music that ultimately found its way to the Imperial Court in Vienna. The other four CDs document the influences of the most important European centres of Spain, Venice, Rome and Paris on Austrian composers. The result is a comprehensive compendium showing European baroque music from a point of view unusual for us today. This collection reveals many exciting new perspectives in over ten hours of musical works, most of which are recorded here for the first time.


Tracks:

CD 1 :

Johann Sigismund Kusser (1660-1727)
[1]-[5] from Suite No.1

Pál Esterházy (1635-1713)
[6] O mors

Samuel Friedrich Capricornus? (1628-1665)
[7] Sonata III à 3

Georg Daniel Speer (1636-1707)
from Gazzetta turco-musicale I
[8] Kosaken Ballett
[9] Pohlnisch Ballet
[10] Lompyn libera il suo padrone Cergely
[11] Wallachisches Ballet
[12] Kosaken Ballett

[13]-[18] Folk Music from Slovakia Rooted in the Baroque Era

CD 2 :

Isaac Posch (um 1587-1622/23)
from Musicalische Tafelfreudt
[1] Paduana IX
[2] Gagliarda IX
[3] Intrada X
[4] Couranta X

Johann Baptist Dolar (um 1620-1673)
[5]-[8] Suite I from Balletti à 4

Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
[9]-[11] Sonata VII in A minor for Violin & b.c.

Amandus Ivanschiz
[12]-[14] Divertimento in C major for violin, viola & cello

Wenzel Raimund Birck (1718-1763)
[15]-[17] Concerto ex C for cembalo, 2 violins & bass

Johann Baptist Dolar
[18]-[23] Suite II from Balletti à 4

Isaac Posch
aus Musicalische Tafelfreudt
[24] Paduana V
[25] Gagliarda V

CD 3 :

[1] Hungarian dances of the 18th century

Gregor Joseph Werner (1693-1766)
[2] Alma redemptoris mater

Johann Joseph Fux (ca.1659-1741)
[3] Sinfonia a 3 ex C

Pál Esterházy (1635-1713)
[4] Jesu parve - Jesum ardentibus - O quam dulcis es - Ave dulcis virgo

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
from Zingarese per il Clavi Cembalo
[5] Tanz 1 - Adagio - Tanz 2

Wolfgang Ebner (ca.1611-1665)
[6] Sonatina for 2 violins, viola da gamba & organ

Georg Daniel Speer (1636-1707)
from Musicalisch-Türckischer Eulenspiegel
[7] Hungarisch Ballet

Gregor Joseph Werner
[8] Regina coeli

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (ca. 1620/23-1680)
[9] La bella zingara

Anonymous
[10] Danza ungherese

CD 4 :

Marcin Mielczewski (?-1651)
[1] Canzona for 2 violin & b.c.

Mikolaj Zielenski
[2] Video caelos apertos for soprano & organ

Heinrich Döbel (1651-1693)
[3] Sonata in A major for violin solo & b.c.

Johann Nauwach (?1595-1644?)
[4] Tempesta di dolcessa for soprano & b.c.

Silvius Leopold Weiss (1686-1750)
[5]-[8] Suonate L'Infedele

Georg Daniel Speer (1636-1707)
from Musicalisch-Türckischer Eulenspiegel
[9] Polnisch Ballet 'Es thät ein Venus Narr'
[10] Polnisch Ballet 'Als nun das dumme Vieh'
[11] Proportion 'Als dieses war vorbey'

Anonymous
[12] Nie zlodziem, choc kradne - Taniez, Serce mi waiela M.B.

CD 5 :

[1] Hörner Solo: St.Hubert-Lied - Bon-repos-Lied

Anonymous
[2] Sonata a 3

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690-1749)
[3]-[5] Enharmonische Sonate in C minor for cembalo

Johann Anton Losy (ca.1650-1721)
[6]-[10] Suite in G major for lute solo

Franticek Václav Habermann (1706-1783)
[11]-[13] Konzert in D major

[14] Jägerlieder: O Diana
[15] Jägerlieder: O Zajíckovi
[16] Hörner Solo: Interludium

Antonin Reichenauer (1694-1730)
[17]-[20] Trio in D major for 2 violins & b.c.

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
[21]-[23] Trio in G minor for lute, violin & b.c.

[24] Caffe-Music - Responsorium ad querelam Rustici
[25] Jägerlieder - Eja chase
[26] Jägerlieder - O Zajíckovi

CD 6 :

[1] Wir befinden uns in einem Kloster

Kristian Godefridus Hirschmentzel (1638-1703)
[2] Orpheus in Sylvis Welleheradensibus pro Jesuli Natali gaud...

[3] Die Gäste begeben sich auf ihre Zimmer

Anonymous
[4] Parthia 4ta

[5] Während Bruder Vinzent die letzten Noten

Josef Pekarek
[6] Arie der Manda - Arie des Jora

[7] Und dann hat man auch ein Ballett vorbereitet

Kristian Godefridus Hirschmentzel
[8] Saltus Civilis - Saltus Rusticanus - Saltus Nobilis

Alessandro Poglietti
[9] Aria Allemanda con alcuni Variazioni sopra l'Eta della Maesta Vo...

[10] Wos is jetzt des fur eine Störung?
[11] Hanacka, Uherska - Dajc - Ländler, Kozarady
[12] No, wos sagn's dazu?

Alessandro Poglietti
[13] Aria Allemanda con alcuni Variazioni... - Parte 15

[14] Marenko, mein liebes Kind - Semper lusteg, numquam traurig - Hanatica Stala u...

Anonymous
[15] Det Turk - Kossack - Der Wälsche

[16] Vinzent, ich muss dich rugen
[17] Lucille, datam coelo
[18] I glaub's net
[19] Ungarische Tänze - Hanakische Tänze
[20] Pohreb sedlaka

CD 7 :

Nicola Matteis jun. (um 1677-1737)
[1] Chaconne (Sesostri, Re di Egitto)
[2] La dia Spagnola (Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena)

Kaiser Leopold I (1640-1705)
[3] Sarabanda - Quando el Alba (Entremes en musica de Orfeo y E...

Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710)
[4] Lantururu

Kaiser Leopold I
[5] Por mas que he buscado - Donde vas - Moriste ninfa bella (E...

Gaspar Sanz
[6] Paradertas

Kaiser Leopold I
[7] Deidades del Abismo (Entremes en musica de Orfeo y Euridice)

Gaspar Sanz
[8] Chacona

Giovanni Maria Pagliardi (1637-1702)
[9] Comedia - Espana

Johann Adam Losy von Losinthal
[10] Ciaccona

Antonio Maria Viviani?
[11] Potpourri (El Prometeo)
[12] A las ninas de tus osos - Si callo Anardo mi pena

Nicola Matteis jun.
[13] La dia Spagnola

CD 8 :

Antonio Vivaldi
[1]-[4] Sonata in C major for violin, oboe and organ, RV 779

Anonymous
[5] Grazie agli inganni tuoi
[6] Si La gondola avere no crie
[7] Son qua mia bella
[8] Su l'ora del disnar partrona cara

Marco Antonio Ferro
[9] Sonata for violin and theorbo

Marc'Antonio Ziani
[10]-[11] Alma redemptoris mater

Tomaso Albinoni
[12]-[16] Sonata for oboe and b.c.

Antonio Vivaldi
[17] Augeletti, vuoi col canto

Giovanni Battista Lampugnani
[18] Bel placer Saria d'un Core

CD 9 :

Johann Caspar Kerll
[1] Toccata VIII in G major

Alessandro Stradella
[2] Sinfonia in D minor for Violin & b.c.

[3] Passagaglia de Monseur Muffat

Alessandro Stradella
[4] Toccata for Cembalo solo

Carlo Ambrogio Lonati
[5] Ciaccone from XII sonate a violino solo e basso

Johann Caspar Kerll
[6] Canzona VI in G major

CD 10 :

Georg Muffat
[1]-[7] Fasciculus II 'Laeta Poesis'

Ludwig von Radolt
[8]-[14] Suite from 'Die Aller Treüeste ...'

Johann Jakob Stupan von Ehrenstein
[15]-[19] Ouverture in D minor

Johann Joseph Fux
[20] Aria from Ouverture in C major

Rupert Ignaz Mayr
[21] Gavotte from Suite in B major

Benedikt Anton Aufschnaiter
[22] Bourée from Serenade in G major
[23] Guigue from Serenade in G major

Johann Joseph Fux
[24] Menuet from Ouverture in C major

Jean Baptiste Lully
[25] Prélude pour la nuit

Johann Joseph Fux
[26] Marche des Ecurieus from Ouverture in C major

Ars Antiqua Austria, Gunar Letzbor