Beethoven: Early Cantatas

A great joy … a fervour of sustained inspiration. A disc which, given the chance, is likely to prove itself the quarter’s best investment — Gramophone Magazine More…

Release Date: 28th Jul 2014
Catalogue No: CDH55479
Label: Helios
Length: 79 minutes

Beethoven: Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, WoO 87

Work length40:57

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José van Dam (bass), Janice Watson (soprano), Jean Rigby (contralto), John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Corydon Orchestra, Corydon Singers
Matthew Best

No 1. Coro. Todt, stöhnt es durch die öde Nacht!

Track length8:12

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No 2. Recitativo. Ein Ungeheuer, sein Name Fanatismus

Track length1:23

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No 3. Aria. Da kam Joseph, mit Gottes Stärke

Track length4:49

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No 4. Aria con coro. Da stiegen die Menschen an's Licht

Track length6:27

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No 5. Recitativo. Er schläft von den Sorgen seiner Welten entladen

Track length2:35

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No 6. Aria. Hier schlummert seinen stillen Frieden

Track length8:21

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No 7. Coro. Todt, stöhnt es durch die öde Nacht!

Track length9:10

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Beethoven: Cantata on the Accession of Emperor Leopold II, WoO 88

Work length23:25

$5.50

$6.85

Judith Howarth (soprano), Michael Cox (flute), Stephen Orton (cello), José van Dam (bass), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Jean Rigby (contralto)
Corydon Orchestra, Corydon Singers
Matthew Best

No 1. Recitativo con coro. Er schlummert … schlummert!

Track length4:19

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No 2. Aria. Fliesse, Wonnezähre, fliesse!

Track length9:37

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No 3. Recitativo. Ihr staunt, Völker der Erde!

Track length0:42

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No 4. Recitativo – Terzetto. Wie bebt mein Herz vor Wonne! – Ihr, die Joseph ihren Vater nannten

Track length4:07

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No 5. Coro. Heil! Stürzet nieder, Millionen

Track length4:40

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Beethoven: Opferlied Op. 121b

Work length6:52

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Jean Rigby (contralto), Roger Smith (cello)
Corydon Orchestra, Corydon Singers
Matthew Best

Beethoven: Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Op. 112

Work length8:20

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$1.85

Corydon Orchestra, Corydon Singers
Matthew Best

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This second disc of Beethoven choral works from the Corydon Singers and Matthew Best includes the composer’s homage to Goethe, Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt, and the famous Opferlied, here performed beautifully by Jean Rigby in the version for soprano, choir and orchestra.

Also featured are two rarely performed and fascinating early works, the Cantatas written around 1790 to mark the death of Joseph II and the accession of his brother Leopold II. Both pieces are full of dramatic action and forthright representation of mood, and the ‘Joseph’ Cantata can quite legitimately be counted one of the composer’s most important early works, displaying remarkable maturity for a nineteen-year-old composer.

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A great joy … a fervour of sustained inspiration. A disc which, given the chance, is likely to prove itself the quarter’s best investment

This issue matches its venturesome contents with well-balanced sound and fine performances

Arguably Beethoven’s first major masterpiece … superb performance, at once fresh and incisive and deeply moving

Daily Mail

Corydon Singers and the Corydon Orchestra and five soloists all cover themselves with glory and the recording is fine

Daily Telegraph

It’s always wonderful to come across some unfamiliar piece and relish unsuspected, undiscovered beauties … Hyperion’s enterprising disc of two early cantatas is thoroughly to be recommended. A marvellous disc

Beethoven: Early Cantatas

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