Weimarer Barock-Ensemble - Stölzel: Christmas Oratorio & Cantatas 6-10 (2000)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 266 MB | Tracks: 27 | 55:35 min
Style: Classical | Label: CPO
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690-1749) was perhaps the most important discovery of cpo in recent years. That not only a single important work, but a whole composer completely undeservedly fall into oblivion, does not happen so often. And the importance and originality of Stölzel, the very own thing that he brought into the musical language of the 18th century and of which his contemporaries knew very well, can be felt immediately by anyone who hears even a few bars of his music. This is never 08/15 Baroque; Stölzel has his very own place equal to Bach, Handel and Telemann. Our publication of the Brockes Passion made that clear to the public, and last year when the first five cantatas of the Christmas Oratorio came out, this impression deepened. So now the long-awaited cantatas 6-10 that Stölzel wrote in 1736/37 for use on Sundays after Christmas, New Year's Day and Epiphany. Ludger Rémy, to whom Stölzel is an affair of the heart, again directs the Weimar Baroque ensemble and the four soloists Britta Schwarz, Henning Voss, Jan Kobow and Klaus Mertens.