Graupner: Bass Cantatas

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Release Date: 2nd Sep 2013
Catalogue No: PC10292
Label: Pan Classics
Length: 72 minutes

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Graupner: Fahre auf in die Höhe, und werffet eure Netze aus

Work length18:27

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Klaus Mertens (baritone)
Accademia Daniel
Shalev Ad-El
Recorded: 23-26 October 2000
Recording Venue: Aula der Alten Universitat Fulda, Germany

Dictum: Fahre auf in die Hohe, und werffet eure Netze aus

Track length1:26

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Recitative: Wirfft mann auf Jesus Wort und Willen

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Aria: Grosses Haupt der Menschen Fischer

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Choral: Mir hat die Welt truglich gericht

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Recitative: Wir schweben hier im Meer der Welt

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Aria: Seegne Jesu, deine Lehre

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Recitative: Hilf Herr, dass ich in meinem Ambt und Stand

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Choral: Herr meinen Geist

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Graupner: Suite in B-flat Major

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Accademia Daniel
Shalev Ad-El
Recorded: 23-26 October 2000
Recording Venue: Aula der Alten Universitat Fulda, Germany

I. Overture

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II. Air

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III. Air

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IV. Air

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V. Menuet

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Graupner: Jesu edler Hoher Priester

Work length14:29

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Klaus Mertens (baritone)
Accademia Daniel
Shalev Ad-El
Recorded: 23-26 October 2000
Recording Venue: Aula der Alten Universitat Fulda, Germany

Aria: Jesu edler Hoher Priester

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Recitative: Gottlob! der Schatten ist verschwunden

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Aria: Mein Jesus ist mein Opfer worden

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Recitative: Jedoch, die Reinigung ist nicht geschehn

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Aria: Wie wohl ist mir in meinem Leben

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Graupner: Wie wunderbar ist Gottes Güt

Work length18:50

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Klaus Mertens (baritone)
Accademia Daniel
Shalev Ad-El
Recorded: 23-26 October 2000
Recording Venue: Aula der Alten Universitat Fulda, Germany

Aria: Wie wunderbar ist Gottes Gut

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Recitative: Allmachtge ewge Wunder Krafft

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Aria: Gross sind des Herren Wercke

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Recitative: So sieh denn Seele, sieh

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Choral: Unter deinen Schirmen

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Christoph Graupner, who was active for over 50 years at the Hessian court in Darmstadt, is a kind of insiders’ tip whose rich musical production is barely visible. For all that, he was the preferred candidate for the post of cantor at St. Thomas’ Church in Leipzig in 1723, which Johann Sebastian Bach accepted in his stead.

The present CD introduces first recordings of three of his unusually colourful bass solo cantatas as well as an original Suite for Chalumeau. In his cantatas, Graupner uses texts structured similarly to those of Bach: they consist of chorale verses and poetry based on Biblical quotations. The melodic language of these cantatas frequently proceeds in tortuous paths and the content of the text is repeatedly depicted in harmonic surprises and sharp dissonances. When listening to these works, it immediately becomes clear that Graupner was "not a slave to his predecessors, but a genius in his own right", according to a contemporary appraisal. The reason why his works remain largely unknown is that the original scores were kept strictly under lock and key for decades. Over 1400 cantatas of Graupner have been preserved in Darmstadt, the city where he worked, ever since a dispute over his estate remained undecided. There, the bass-baritone Klaus Mertens, one of today's most well-versed and prominent singers in the early music scene, has occupied himself intensively with these works, selecting three cantatas which he interprets with his warmly sonorous, unmistakeable voice.

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