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Reviewer: Peter
Loewen
This first recording in the
Musica Baltica series includes seven cantatas by composers who were active
in Gdansk (Danzig). The music comes from the church archives of St John’s,
St Catherine’s, and St Mary’s. The music of Johann Valentin Meder
(1649-1719), Johann Jeremias du Grain (d. 1756), Johann Balthasar Christian
Freislich (c. 1690-1774), and Johann Daniel Pucklitz (1705-74) gives one a
glimpse of the quality of music in this Baltic city. It shows many typical
late-Baroque characteris-tics, but there is already a glimmer of early
classicism in the way composers introduce chromaticism and emphasize the
clarity of the melodic line against a slow harmonic accompaniment. Pucklitz
is perhaps the most progressive of the lot in his use of chromaticism. A
survey of each cantata shows how variably these composers approached the
problem of form. All but Freislich’s cantata include the obligatory arias,
chorus, and recitatives.
Freislich’s Jauchzet dem Herrn
Alle Welt is a solo cantata consisting of a sinfonia and three arias for one
or two soloists. Du Grain’s ‘Herzlich Lieb Hab Ich Dich O Herr’ gives
perhaps the clearest illustration of the various approaches to chorale
setting. The Sinfonia-Chorale movement mixes a motet-style setting with a
four-part chorale setting. The tenor aria presents the chorale melody in
cantus-firmus style over an impressive filigree of passagework in the
violins. The chorale movement, ‘Es Ist Ja, Herr, Dein Geschenk’, is a simple
fourpart harmonization. And the cantata concludes with another chorus that
blends the motet and chorale styles.
It is a lovely recording of a
repertory that has too long been neglected by performers. Notes in English; texts in German only. | ||||
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