Graupner Orchestral

Members of Finnish Baroque Orchestra - Christoph Graupner: Trio Sonatas (2014)

Members of Finnish Baroque Orchestra - Christoph Graupner: Trio Sonatas (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 284 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 139 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE 1240-2 | Time: 00:59:03

Finnish Baroque Orchestra’s second release of Christoph Graupner’s (1683–1760) music continues to reveal delightful masterpieces by the Baroquemaster, who November 2014 during his lifetime was even more well known than his colleague Johann Sebastian Bach. After the acclaimed release of Graupner’s orchestral works (ODE12202; The Finnish broadcasting company YLE Record of the Year 2013), this new album focuses on some of the chamber works by Graupner – the Trio Sonatas. Graupner was extremely productive as a composer, with a catalogue of over 2’000 works varying from orchestral works to cantatas, concertos and chamber music. He also possessed a unique personal style of writing music and often favoured certain rarer instruments in his works. Among these are the viola d’amore as well as the chalumeau, both instruments being heard also on this disc. From his contemporaries Graupner’s music stands out with its exceptional command of melody and harmony.
Dorothee Mields & Harmonie Universelle - Graupner: Lass mein Herz (2018)

Dorothee Mields & Harmonie Universelle - Graupner: Lass mein Herz (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 369 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 190 Mb | Artwork included | 01:20:24
Classical, Vocal | Label: Accent

When the cantor Johann Sebastian Bach performed sacred cantatas in Leipzig on Sundays and public holidays, his colleagues did the same in many other places in Lutheran Germany. Among them was Christoph Graupner, the court conductor of Hesse-Darmstadt. In 1709, the music-loving Landgraf Ernst Ludwig from Darmstadt had discovered him as a harpsichordist at the Hamburg Opera in 1709 and had hired him on the spot.
Dorothee Mields & Harmonie Universelle - Graupner: Lass mein Herz (2018)

Dorothee Mields & Harmonie Universelle - Graupner: Lass mein Herz (2018)
Classical, Vocal | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 374 MB
Label: Accent | Tracks: 30 | Time: 80:12 min

When the cantor Johann Sebastian Bach performed sacred cantatas in Leipzig on Sundays and public holidays, his colleagues did the same in many other places in Lutheran Germany. Among them was Christoph Graupner, the court conductor of Hesse-Darmstadt. In 1709, the music-loving Landgraf Ernst Ludwig from Darmstadt had discovered him as a harpsichordist at the Hamburg Opera in 1709 and had hired him on the spot.

Das Kleine Konzert - Graupner: Christmas Cantatas (2010)  Music

Posted by varrock at April 22, 2019
Das Kleine Konzert - Graupner: Christmas Cantatas (2010)

Das Kleine Konzert - Graupner: Christmas Cantatas (2010)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 350 MB | Tracks: 34 | 73:43 min
Style: Classical | Label: CPO

One of the most remarkable things about German composers of the 17th and 18th centuries is the size of their oeuvre. One wonders where they found the time to compose so many works, considering the general slowness of life. It took days to travel from one part of Germany to another, and weeks to go from Germany abroad. Writing a composition by hand, copying parts for all performers, teaching, rehearsing - it is just amazing how much work they had to do. And in addition, there was an insatiable demand for music which they had to satisfy. This is also the main reason they composed so much.
Rien Voskuilen, L'arpa festante - Christoph Graupner: Concertos & Ouvertures (2018)

Rien Voskuilen, L'arpa festante - Christoph Graupner: Concertos & Ouvertures (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 330 Mb | Total time: 73:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accent | # ACC24350 | Recorded: 2017

In 1709, the music-loving Landgraf Ernst Ludwig from Darmstadt had discovered Christoph Graupner as a harpsichordist at the Hamburg Opera in 1709 and had hired him on the spot. The Landgraf had made a real stroke of luck with Graupner, because he was not only an outstanding musician but also a perfect organizer of the courtly musical life and especially for the church music which had to be performed weekly. Over the years, more than 1,400 works of sacred music and more than 250 concertos and orchestral works have gathered from his pen and paper. L'arpa festante and Rien Voskuilen have put together an exquisite selection with orchestral music from this repertoire for the present release: two concertos for oboes and trumpets and two Overtures for transverse flute in the French style, probably all from the first half of the 1730's.
Rien Voskuilen, L'arpa festante - Christoph Graupner: Concertos & Ouvertures (2018)

Rien Voskuilen, L'arpa festante - Christoph Graupner: Concertos & Ouvertures (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 330 Mb | Total time: 73:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accent | # ACC24350 | Recorded: 2017

In 1709, the music-loving Landgraf Ernst Ludwig from Darmstadt had discovered Christoph Graupner as a harpsichordist at the Hamburg Opera in 1709 and had hired him on the spot. The Landgraf had made a real stroke of luck with Graupner, because he was not only an outstanding musician but also a perfect organizer of the courtly musical life and especially for the church music which had to be performed weekly. Over the years, more than 1,400 works of sacred music and more than 250 concertos and orchestral works have gathered from his pen and paper. L'arpa festante and Rien Voskuilen have put together an exquisite selection with orchestral music from this repertoire for the present release: two concertos for oboes and trumpets and two Overtures for transverse flute in the French style, probably all from the first half of the 1730's.
Florian Heyerick, Ex Tempore, Mannheimer Hofkapelle - Christoph Graupner: Ein Weihnachtsoratorium (2010)

Florian Heyerick, Ex Tempore, Mannheimer Hofkapelle - Christoph Graupner: Ein Weihnachtsoratorium (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 605 Mb | Total time: 136:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ricercar | # RIC307 | Recorded: 2009, 2010

Director of music to the Darmstadt court, Graupner's output almost equalled that of Telemann and certainly surpassed that of J.S. Bach: he composed a number of operas, many concertos and orchestral suites, chamber music, keyboard works and more than 1400 church cantatas. Almost the entire body of Graupner’s work has survived in autograph but hardly any of his compositions were published during his lifetime or afterwards. Fortunately they were not burnt after his death as he himself wished, but were the subject of a legal dispute between the landgrave and Graupner’s heirs. Thanks to this the complete archive was taken to a place outside the city and thus spared a second burning, as very little of the old city of Darmstadt would be spared during the Second World War.
Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra - Christoph Graupner: Antiochus und Stratonica (2020)

Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra - Christoph Graupner: Antiochus und Stratonica (2020)
XLD | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 0.99 Gb | Total time: 224:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | 555 369-2 | Recorded: 2020

The prizewinning Boston Early Music Festival, joined by the choicest soloists, once again presents a spectacular Baroque opera discovery with Christoph Graupner’s Antiochus and Stratonica. Graupner composed the musical play L’Amore Ammalato, Die kranckende Liebe, oder: Antiochus und Stratonica during his time as the harpsichordist at the Gänsemarkt Opera in Hamburg. The core subject of the opera is the love of the Seleucid prince Antiochus for his stepmother Stratonica. This match brings with it highly dramatic moments as well as deeply sad ones inasmuch as Antiochus is supposed to have an incurable illness – but then at the end three old and new romantic couples appear on the stage and everything comes to a happy ending.
Shalev Ad-El, Accademia Daniel - Christoph Graupner: Concerti e Musica di Tavola (2015)

Shalev Ad-El, Accademia Daniel - Christoph Graupner: Concerti e Musica di Tavola (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 406 Mb | Total time: 67:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 645-2 | Recorded: 2010

For the present disc, Accademia Daniel have chosen solo concertos for violin, viola d’amore and bassoon, as well as a concerto that combines three bass soloists (chalumeau – a popular instrument in Darmstadt, it seems – cello and bassoon), and one of several of the composer’s Entratas “per la Musica di Tavola”, to all intents and purposes an orchestral suite, though eschewing the French overture associated with that form. All of the concertos are in the fast-slow-fast three movement form and have little in common with the Vivaldian model; in fact, the solo instrument is more just another colour on the composer’s palette. With that idea in mind, the wanton addition of a recorder to the final movement of the suite is easily forgiven. Graupner’s music takes some getting used to – what seem like normal baroque movements take some unexpected harmonic twists and turns, and his melodies frequently surprise; these players are well used to his music now, and their easy facility is reflected in some delightful performances.
Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert - Johann Friedrich Fasch: Concertos, Orchestral Suite (1996)

Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert - Johann Friedrich Fasch: Concertos, Orchestral Suite (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 299 Mb | Total time: 59:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Archiv Produktion | # 449 210-2 | Recorded: 1995

In comparison with their contemporary, Telemann, German composers such as Fasch, Graupner, Heinichen and Stolzel enjoy a dimin ished profile among present-day concert-goers and music enthusiasts. None of them, admittedly, was anything like so prolific as the Hamburg Director Musices but they all had one thing in common - a fascination with woodwind instruments whose role in concertos and suites was imaginatively developed in their hands. Early on in life Fasch took Telemann as a model, on at least one occasion successfully passing off a piece of his own music as that of the elder composer.