Schelle - Actus Musicus auf Weyh-Nachten (Christmas Cantatas) | CPO 5551552

Schelle - Actus Musicus auf Weyh-Nachten (Christmas Cantatas)

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 5551552

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Christmas

Release Date: 27th October 2017

Contents

Artists

Monika Mauch (soprano)
Myriam Arbouz (soprano)
Marian Dijkhuizen (alto)
Georg Poplutz (tenor)
Jakob Pilgram (tenor)
Raimonds Spogis (bass)
Kolner Akademie
Concerto Palatino

Conductor

Michael Alexander Willens

Works

Schelle, Johann

Actus Musicus auf Weyh-Nachten
Da die Zeit erfullet ward
Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe
Machet die Tore weit
Uns ist ein Kind geboren
Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schar

Artists

Monika Mauch (soprano)
Myriam Arbouz (soprano)
Marian Dijkhuizen (alto)
Georg Poplutz (tenor)
Jakob Pilgram (tenor)
Raimonds Spogis (bass)
Kolner Akademie
Concerto Palatino

Conductor

Michael Alexander Willens

About

In 1677 Johann Schelle became the music director at the Church of St Thomas in Leipzig, succeeding his teacher Sebastian Knüpfer and preceding Johann Kuhnau in this post. His own pupils included important composers like Johann Christoph Graupner, Johann David Heinichen, Reinhard Keiser, Johann Theodor Roemhildt, and Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow. More than 180 compositions by Schelle are documented, but only forty-eight of these works are extant. Schelle’s importance lies above all in two areas: in the combination of biblical texts and free sacred poems during his progressive development of the genre of the sacred concerto, which qualifies as an early form of the later Protestant church cantata, and in the setting of chorale cantatas. This CD presents a recording of Schelle’s known compositions for Advent and Christmas. The featured work, the Actus Musicus auf Weyh-Nachten, is a musical representation of the birth of Christ. Its textual basis is formed not only by the familiar biblical text from the Gospel of Luke (2:1-20) but also by the fifteen stanzas of Luther’s hymn ‘Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her’.

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