In this episode we will be listening to the first two cantatas of the cycle ‘Betrachtungen über die Hauptumstände des großen Versöhnungsleidens unseres Erlösers’ by Christoph Graupner.
In 1741 Christoph Graupner composed a cycle of ten cantatas for the Passiontide. The first of these sounded on Sunday Estomihi, also known as Sunday Quinquagesima: the 50th day before Easter and the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. The last one was performed on Good Friday.
The lyrics were written by Graupner’s brother-in-law Johann Conrad Lichtenberg.
In this programme we will be listening to the first two cantatas of this cycle.
Finally, we feature three more songs for Passiontide by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
Christoph Graupner (1683-1760)
From cantata cycle ‘Betrachtungen über die Hauptumstände des großen Versöhnungsleidens unseres Erlösers’:
1. Kommt, Seelen, seid in Andacht stille, cantata for Sunday Estomihi (GWV 1119/41)
2. Erzittre, toll und freche Welt, cantata for Sunday Invocavit (GWV 1120/41)
Doerthe-Maria Sandmann (1), Simone Schwark (2), soprano. Marnix De Cat, alto (2). Jan Kobow, tenor. Robbert Muuse (1), Dominik Wörner (2), bass. Solistenensemble Ex Tempore, Barockorchester Mannheimer Hofkapelle conductedf by Florian Heyerick
(CD: “Das Leiden Jesu – Passion Cantatas I” – CPO 555 071-2, 2017 (2); “Das Leiden Jesu – Passion Cantatas III” – CPO 555 230-2, 2019 (1))
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
3. Passion Song (In Todesängsten), H 752,6
4. Jesus in Gethsemane, H 752,29
5. Passion Song (Ein Opfer, nach dem ew’gen Rath)
Ensemble Précipitations: Hervé Lamy, tenor. Sébastien Amadieu, harpsichord
(CD: “Trost im Leid” – Psalmus PSAL008, 2009)
addition:
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
6. O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig, TWV 31,17-18
Roberto Loreggian, organ
(CD: “Fugues, Overtures, Preludes and Suites TWV 30-32” – Brilliant Classics 94337, 2013)
