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1 CD -
2292-46151-2 ZK - (p) 1990
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Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) |
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| Kantate "Was mir behagt, ist
nur die muntre Jagd!" (Jagdkantate), BWV
208 |
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33' 25" |
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Recitativo (Diana) "Was mir behagt"
/ Aria (Diana) "Jagen
ist die Lust der Götter" |
2' 28" |
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1
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Recitativo (Endymion) "Wie, schönste
Göttin" / Aria
(Endymion) "Willst, du dich nicht mehr
ergötzen" |
5' 57" |
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2
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Recitativo (Diana, Endymion) "Ich
liebe dich zwar noch!" |
2' 19" |
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3
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Recitativo (Pan) "Ich, der ich sonst
ein Gott" / Aria (Pan) "Ein Fürst ist
seines Landes" |
3' 11" |
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4
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Recitativo (Pales) "Soll denn des
Pales Opfer" / Aria (Pales) "Schafe können
sicher weiden" |
5' 32" |
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5
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Recitativo (Diana) "So timmt mit ein"
/ Coro "Lebe,
Sonne dieser Erden" |
3' 25" |
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6
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(Diana, Endymion) "Entzücket uns
beide" |
2' 00" |
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7
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(Pales) "Weil die wollenreichen
Herden" |
1' 48" |
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8
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(Pan) "Ihr Felder und Auen" |
3' 19" |
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9
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| - Coro "Ihr
lieblichste Blicke" |
3' 26" |
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| Kantate "Mer hahn en neue
Oberkeet" (Bauernkantate), BWV 212 |
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30' 34" |
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2' 10" |
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11
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(Duetto) (Soprano, Basso) "Mer hahn en
neue Oberkeet" |
0' 34" |
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12
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Recitativo (Soprano, Basso) "Nu,
Mieke, gib dein Guschel immer her" /
Aria (Soprano) "Ach, es schmeckt doch
gar zu gut"
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2' 03" |
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Recitativo (Basso) "Der Herr ist gut:
Allein der Schösser" / Aria (Basso)
"Ach Herr Schösser, geht nicht far zu
schlimm"
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1' 35" |
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- Recitativo (Soprano) "Es
bleibt dabei" / Aria (Soprano) "Unser
trefflicher, Lieber Kammerherr"
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1' 53" |
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15
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Basso) "Er hilft uns allen alt und
jung" / Aria (Soprano) "Das
ist galant" |
1' 47" |
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- Recitativo (Basso) "Und
unsre gnäde Frau" / Aria (Basso) "Fünfzig
Taler bares Geld"
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1' 36" |
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- Recitativo (Soprano) "Im
Ernst ein Wort" / Aria (Soprano) "Klein-Zschocher
müsse"
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7' 50" |
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18
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| - Recitativo (Basso) "Das
ist zu klug vor dich" / Aria
(Basso) "Es nehme zehntausend
Dukaten" |
1' 05" |
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19
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klingt zu liederlich" / Aria
(Soprano) "Gib, Schöne" |
1' 00" |
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20
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hast wohl recht" / Aria (Basso) "Dein
Wachstum sei feste" |
6' 11" |
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21
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| - Recitativo (Soprano,
Basso) "Und damit sei es auch genug"
/ Aria (Soprano) "Und daß ihrs alle
wißt" |
0' 58" |
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- Recitativo (Soprano,
Basso) "Mein Schatz, erraten!" /
Coro "Wir gehn nun"
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1' 40" |
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| Yvonne Kenny,
Diana (208) |
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Angela Maria
Blasi, Pales (208), Sopran
(212)
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| Kurt Equiluz,
Endymion (208) |
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Robert Holl,
Pan (208), Bass (212)
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CONCENTUS
MUSICUS WIEN (mit
Originalinstrumenten)
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Elisabeth von Magnus, Blockflöte
(208) |
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Helmut Mitter, Violine |
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Marie Wolf, Blockflöte (208),
Oboe (208)
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Walter Pfeiffer, Violine |
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Hans Peter Westermann, Oboe
(208) |
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Mary Utinger, Violine (208)
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Pient Dont, Oboe (208) |
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Maighread McCrann, Violine (208)
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Milan Turković, Fagott (208) |
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Annemarie Ortner, Violine |
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Andrew Joy, Naturhorn (208) |
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Gerold Klaus, Violine |
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Charles Putnam, Naturhorn (208) |
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Peter Schoberwalter junior, Violine |
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Robert Wolf, Traverso (212) |
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Peter Matzka, Violine (212)
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Alois Schlor, Naturhorn (212) |
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Kurt Theiner, Viola |
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Alice Harnoncourt, Violine |
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Josef de Sordi, Viola |
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Erich Höbarth, Violine (212)
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Lynn Pascher, Viola |
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Anita Mitterer, Violine |
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Herwig Tachezi, Violoncello |
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Andrea Bischof, Violine |
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Rudolf Leopold, Violoncello |
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Peter Schoberwalter, Violine |
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Eduard Hruza, Violone |
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Karl Höffinger, Violine |
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Herbert Tachezi, Cembalo (212),
Cembalo, Orgel (208) |
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| Nikolaus
Harnoncourt, Leitung |
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Luogo
e data di registrazione
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| Casino
Zögernitz, Vienna (Austria) - maggio
1988 |
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Registrazione
live / studio
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Producer
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Wolfgang
Mohr / Michael Brammann / Eberhard
Sengpiel
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Prima Edizione CD
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| Teldec
"Das Alte Werk" - 2292-46151-2 ZK - (1
cd) - 64' 09" - (p) 1990 - DDD |
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Prima
Edizione LP
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Notes
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Germany's petty
princelings continued into the 18th
century their ambitions to equal the
splendour and ostentation of
Versailles. Therefore enormous
celebrations, magnificent banquets,
firework displays and hunts continued
to be as much a part of the
exaggerated life-style of their courts
as were a court orchestra and a court
opera. The court residence of the
Duchy of Saxe-Weissenfels was only
built at the end of the 17th century.
Duke Christian, a lover of art and
display, ruled there from 1712 to
1736; on 23rd February 1713 he
celebrated his birthday with a hunt at
the princely hunting lodge. The climax
of the celebrations, which had already
lasted for several weeks, was table
music by Johann Sebastian Bach,
performed in the evening at the "long
table in the hall of the hunting
lodge". Since the Houses of
Saxe-Weissenfels and Saxe-Weimar
enjoyed friendly relations it seemed
appropriate to pay homage to the
Weissenfels Duke Christian on this day
with a cantata by
Bach, the organist and court musician
at Weimar since 1708. The text of the
Cantata "MY ONLY PLEASURE
IS THE MERRY HUNT".
BWV 208, is by the Chief Secretary of
the Consistory in Weimar Salomon
Franck, whose works Bach was
particularly fond of setting to music.
The four deities Diana, Endymion, Pan
and Pales bring to the Duke, a
passionate huntsman, a "joyful
offering". The composition of Bach’s
earliest surviving secular cantata is
infused with his undisguised youthful
elan and his marvellous lack of
concern for the then accepted canons
of form. Of course there are
reoitatives, arias and two vocal
ensembles. But the individual
movements are shorter than in later
works and are executed in an
exceptionally individual manner, both
in form and in orchestration: for
example, not every aria has a da capo
section, and after No. 11 “All hail,
Sun of the Earth” three arias follow
one after another, without any
intervening recitatives. Bach
repeatedly drew on this youthful work,
in 1716, 1720, and in 1740 or 1742,
either by reusing it
almost unchanged, as in BWV 208 a, or
by employing the so-called parody
practice for certain movements of some
sacred cantates (BWV 68, BWV 149). It
is possible that the Symphony in F,
BWV 1040, which has a
close affinity with Cantata
BWV 208, was used as introductory or
transitional material at the first
performance.
The Cantata en burlesque "WE
HAVE A NEW SQUIRE", the so-called
Peasants' Cantata BW 212, is also a
musical homage. Carl Heinrich von
Dieskau, Chamberlain at the Court of
Electoral Saxony and Lord of the Manor, celebrated his 36th
birthday and his entry into his
inheritance on 30th August 1742 with
great festivities at
Klein-Zschocher, south-west of
Leipzig. It was
reported that "at nightfall a
beautiful firework display was set
off, the like of which had never
before been seen in this part of the
country". And .lohann Sebastian Bach
was present! Because he would
certainly have given the first
performance with the Leipzig
students who made up his Collegium
musicum. The libretto, by Christian
Friedrich Henrici, known as
Picander, begins in Upper Saxon
peasant dialect but, after the
opening duet, continues in High
German. The attraction of the text
lies in the allusions to the
personal circumstances of the
Chamberlain and certain events in
Klein-Zschocher; the attraction of
the music lies in the parodies and
quotations from songs. A particular
oddity is the “patchwork overture",
consisting of seven sections. Bach
used old melodies and dances
(polonaise, mazurka, sarabande,
bourrée, paysanne)
and his instrumentation described
the two social groups, namely the
peasants (horn, violin, viola, basso
continuo) and
townsfolk (flute, two violins, viola
and basso continuo). Since the
object of the celebrations was
particularly interested in music -
in 1747 he even became the Director
of the Royal orchestral and chamber
music in Dresden - he would surely
have been able to appreciate such
humorous touches.
Nele
Anders
Translation:
Lindsay Craig
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Nikolaus
Harnoncourt (1929-2016)
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