This selection of German cantatas and concertos for bass voice and violin includes a number of Baroque rarities, some of which are only now receiving their first recordings. With the help of the smallest chamber forces, ENSEMBLE COLCANTO and bass soloist Reinhard Mayr give performances that are not only colourful but also authentic in style.
Release: Decembre 2015
01 HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ BIBER: NISI DOMINUS, Psalm 127
Geistliches Konzert für Bass, Violine und Basso continuo
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN: ICH WIL DEN CREUTZWEG GERNE GEHEN TWV 1:884
Kantate für Bass, Violine und Basso continuo, Text von Erdmann Neumeister
02 ARIA ICH WIL DEN CREUTZWEG GERNE GEHEN
03 RECITATIVO ACH, WER DIE FRUCHT DES CREUTZES NUR BEDÄCHTE
04 ARIA ICH KÜSSE DIE RUTHE MIT FREUDIGEM MUTHE
05 RECITATIVO UND, WAS SAG ICH WEITER?
06 ARIA ACH, MEIN HEILAND
07 HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ BIBER: HIC EST PANIS, Joh. 6,50 – 51
Geistliches Konzert für Basso solo, Violino e Basso continuo
08 JOHANN PACHELBEL: ACH HERR, WIE IST MEINER FEINDE SO VIEL, Psalm 3
Geistliches Konzert für Basso solo, Violine solo und Basso continuo
09 FRANZ TUNDER: SALVE, COELESTIS PATER MISERICORDIAE
Geistliches Konzert für Basso solo, Violino e Basso continuo
CHRISTOPH GRAUPNER: GOTTLOB MEIN GLAUBE STEHET VESTE GWV 1152
Kantate für Bass, Violine und Basso continuo
Text von Johann Conrad Lichtenberg
10 ARIE: GOTTLOB MEIN GLAUBE STEHET VESTE
11 REZITATIV: ICH WEISS GAR WOHL AN WEN ICH GLAUBE
12 ARIE: IST MEINE SONNE HINGEGANGEN
13 REZITATIV: WAS JESUS THUT UND WAS IHM WIEDERFÄHRT
14 ARIE: LASS MEIN GEIST DIE FRECHEN ROTTEN
15 RUPERT IGNAZ FRANZ MAYR: NISI DOMINUS, Psalm 127
Geistliches Konzert für Basso solo, Violino e Basso continuo
Total Time / Gesamtspielzeit: 67:52
Deutscher Text (36 Seiten)
Texts in english (36 pages)
© 2015 Spektral, LC 15543
Best.-Nr. SRL4-15145
EAN: 4260130381455
Christiane Gagelmann was born in Geislingen an der Steige and studied violin at the Music Universities in Lübeck and Freiburg as well as at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Her first musical position was with the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra in Essen. A fascination with the musical possibilities of the Baroque violin then led her to the University of the Arts in Berlin where she studied with Irmgard Huntgeburth and graduated with honours. She also worked with Hiro Kurosaki, Monica Huggett, Margaret Faultless, Andrew Manze, and Jordi Savall. In 2001, she was invited to be part of the European Union Baroque Orchestra, where she performed under the direction of Andrew Manze, Alfredo Bernadini, Roy Goodman, and Edward Higginbottom. She does freelance work (often as a concert master) with the Dresden Baroque Orchestra, the Musical and Amicable Society in Birmingham, The Göttingen Baroque Orchestra, and the Chemnitz Baroque Orchestra. She performed as soloist with the latter ensemble under the direction of Peter Schreier at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg.
Barbara Julia Reiter was born in Raab, Austria. She developed her interest in period instrument performance while studying cello, and obtained teaching and performing degrees with distinction from the Anton Bruckner University in Linz. This led to a post-graduate degree in Baroque cello in the United States, at Ohio’s Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she was a scholarship student of Catharina Meints. In 2001, during the final year of her studies in the United States, Barbara was offered a position in the European Union Baroque Orchestra. This launched her career as a period instrument specialist, and since that time she has performed throughout Europe and abroad with groups such as Lauttencompagney Berlin, the Dresden Baroque Orchestra, L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra, the Sweelinck Players of London, La Stravaganza in Cologne, the Main Baroque Orchestra, the Musical & Amicable Society in England, and the Wiener Akademie. Since 2009, Barbara Julia Reiter has resided in The Hague.
Bernhard Prammer studied organ and harpsichord in Vienna, Linz, and The Hague. He is the founder and director of the Baroque ensemble COLCANTO and makes guest appearances with ensembles such as Ars Antiqua Austria, Musica Antiqua Salzburg, and the L’Arpa festante München Baroque Orchestra. He also teaches organ and harpsichord at the Landesmusikschulwerk in Upper Austria and is active as an instructor at training seminars for music pedagogy.
Along with his artistic commitments he devotes much time and energy to various cultural projects and the organization of concerts, and considers himself a “creative contributor to culture”. He has served as organist on the Bruckner Organ in the Old Cathedral in Linz since the fall of 2007 and is responsible for the “Bruckner stairs” exhibit in Linz’s Bruckner Museum. In 2013, Bernhard Prammer was awarded the Landeskulturmedaille of Upper Austria for his contributions to culture.
Reinhard Mayr was born in Grieskirchen in Upper Austria. He began his vocal training with bass Franz Kalchmair, and continued at the Anton Bruckner Conservatory in Linz. He then transferred to the Music Academy in Basel where he worked with Kurt Widmer, and finally went to Robert Holl at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. It was after his time in Basel that Reinhard Mayr began singing bass roles in the opera house. He started out at the Volksoper in Vienna and soon after made his debut at the Vienna State Opera. Since 2001, he has sung at the opera house in Zurich. Over the years he has enjoyed collaborating with many important conductors, including Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Franz Welser-Möst, Sir John Elliot Gardiner, and Fabio Luisi.
Inspired by his vocal professors Kurt Widmer and Robert Holl, bass Reinhard Mayr has also cultivated his passion for recital and lieder singing, something that has occupied him over the years while working as an opera singer. He is especially fond of the sacred works and lieder of Franz Schubert. Mayr has performed concerts and oratorios in many distinguished venues such as the Musikverein in Vienna, London’s Royal Albert Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdan, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Berlin Konzerthaus, and Severence Hall in Cleveland, Ohio. Reinhard Mayr has been appearing regularly with Ensemble vocal COLCANTO for over ten years.
