Il guardo di Maria

IL GUARDO DI MARIA
SIMONE SCHWARK – SOPRANO
JÜRGEN BANHOLZER  – HARPSICORD & ORGAN

This delightful collection of vocal and instrumental works from the early Italian Baroque takes as its starting point a feminine perspective on the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, all heard in touching and moving performances by Simone Schwark and Jürgen Banholzer.

Release: 08. September 2023

Album Details

CD-Content

01 BONIFACIO GRAZIANI (1604/05 –  1664): SALVE REGINA
02 TARQUINIO MERULA (1595 – 1665): CANZONETTA SPIRITUALE SOPRA ALLA NANNA: HOR CH’È TEMPO DI DORMIRE
04 CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567 – 1643): JUBILET TOTA CIVITAS
05 GIRALOMO FRESCOBALDI (1583 – 1643): SONNETTO SPIRITUALE: MADDALENA ALLA CROCE: A PIÈ DELLA GRAN CROCE
06 BENEDETTO FERRARI (1603 – 1681): CANTATA SPIRITUALE: QUESTE PUNGENTI SPINE
07 GIRALOMO FRESCOBALDI: ANCIDETEMI PUR D’ARCHADELT PASSAGGIATO
08 GIOVANNI FELICE SANCES (CA. 1600 – 1679): STABAT MATER
09 BONIFACIO GRAZIANI: REGINA CAELI
10 JOHANN JAKOB FROBERGER (1616 – 1667): FANTASIA SOPRA UT RE MI FA SOL LA
11 CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI: LAUDATE DOMINUM

Total time:   69:51

ARTISTS

 

Simone Schwark

“Simone Schwark sang with all her heart and with bell-like clarity, giving full attention to her public.”
Soprano Simone Schwark specializes mainly in Early Music and has worked with conductors Gabriel Garrido, Florian Heyerick, Andreas Küppers, Andrew Parrott, Michael Schneider, Christoph Siebert, Carlos Spierer, Winfried Toll and Michael A. Willens. She has performed at the Göttingen Handel Festival, Genève été, the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, the Weilburg Castle Concerts, and other venues. She has been engaged by the Giessen State Theatre as Barbara in Telemann’s Emma and Eginhard, and as Eurilla in Haydn’s Orlando Paladino. At the Wiesbaden State Theatre’s May Festival, she has taken on the roles of Drusilla in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Venus in John Blow’s Masque Venus and Adonis, and Oriana in Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula. Simone Schwark is also in demand as an ensemble singer and has appeared with the Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble and the Bachstiftung of St. Gallen. Solo CD recordings include collaborations with the Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble (in Telemann cantatas, music of the Reformation, and the St. John oratorio by Daniel Bollius) as well as Graupner cantatas with Florian Heyerick.
Simone Schwark grew up in Freiburg and studied music pedagogy, vocal pedagogy, and art song and opera singing in Freiburg, Stuttgart, and Frankfurt. Her teachers include Beata Heuer-Christen, Carole Meyer-Bruetting, and Thomas Heyer. She has also participated in masterclasses at the International Bach Academy as well as with Dunja Vejzovic, Klesie Kelly, Renée Morloc, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. She has also received vital artistic guidance from Sibylla Rubens. From 2015 to 2018, Simone Schwark taught  singing at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. She also performs the art song repertoire with pianist Anna Naretto, especially focusing on German lieder along with Spanish and French works. She also works closely with harpsichordist Jürgen Banholzer, and the present recording is their first duo CD.

www.simone-schwark.de

Jürgen Banholzer

Jürgen Banholzer received valuable incentives from James David Christie in Boston, he then studied with Ludger Lohmann in Stuttgart and with Jean Boyer at the CNSM in Lyon. He went on to study singing at the Schola Cantorum in Basle and was later awarded a PhD in musicology at the University of Mainz. As an organist he has given recitals in Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Poland and Switzerland. In 2021 the CD “O güldnes Licht” was issued by frabernardo, recorded on the Hus-Schnitger organ in Stade (together with the tenor Georg Poplutz). In 2022 he developed a musical-literary programme based on Johann Kuhnau‘s Biblical Sonatas (“Then you are not the god whom I created from my tears”), which he presented on several historic organs together with the actress Johanna Krumstroh. As a continuo player on harpsichord and organ he has been associated for many years with the Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble, and he has been a guest in groups like the Freiburger Barockorchester. Together with the salterio player Margit Übellacker he founded the ensemble La Gioia Armonica, which produced under his direction world-premiere recordings of hitherto unpublished works by Antonio Caldara, Johann Georg Reutter, Giambattista Martini, and Antonio Sacchini, in collaboration with the lables cpo, Ramée and with Radio Bremen. The critics commented on these CDs: “a delightful range of charming colours and intriguing textural effects” (Early Music); “brilliant interpretation” (Goldberg); “breathtakingly lovely” (BBC Music Magazine). The ensemble has since been invited to festivals like Händelfestspiele Halle, Ton Koopman‘s Itinérarie Baroque, Dordrecht Bachfestival, Tallinn Bachfestival, Timisoara Early Music Festival, Bagnacavallo Classica, Bruchsaler Schloßfestspiele or Mitteldeutsche Heinrich-Schütz-Tage. Since 2017 Jürgen Banholzer has taught at the International Summer School of Early Music in Valtice (Czech Republic). He also taught at Mainz University.

German / English Text (32 pages)

P+C 2022 Spektral, LC 15543
Best.-Nr. SRL4-22197
EAN: 4260130381974