Die Auferstehung des Erlosers: Easter Cantatas / Willens, Kolner Akademie

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CPO
Release Date
July 10, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      AGRICOLA HOMILIUS
    • PERFORMER
      Kolner Akademie, Willens
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 10, 2020
    • UPC
      761203533220
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555332-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Der Gottmensch jauchzt (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Chor der Kölner Akademie, Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    2. Recitative: Da wir in deinem Blute (Soprano)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Hannah Morrison

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    3. Du schützest ihn auf deinem Throne (Quartet)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Hannah Morrison, Elisabeth Popien, Georg Poplutz, André Morsch

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    4. Aria: Er lebt, von deiner Huld beglücket (Soprano)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Hannah Morrison

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    5. Chorale: Herr, dies sind die edlen Früchte (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Chor der Kölner Akademie, Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    6. Frohlocket und preiset den herrschenden Sieger (Chorus)

      Composer: Gottfried August Homilius

      Ensemble: Chor der Kölner Akademie, Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    7. Recitative: Ach, schwere Pflicht! (Maria Magdalena, Maria Jacobi, Salome)

      Composer: Gottfried August Homilius

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Rahel Maas, Bethany Seymour, Elisabeth Popien

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    8. Betrübter Fall (Maria Magdalena, Maria Jacobi, Salome)

      Composer: Gottfried August Homilius

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Rahel Maas, Bethany Seymour, Elisabeth Popien

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    9. Recitative: Wie ist mir? Ach! (Maria Magdalena, Maria Jacobi, Salome)

      Composer: Gottfried August Homilius

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Rahel Maas, Bethany Seymour, Elisabeth Popien

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    10. Aria: Entsetzt euch nicht, getreue Herzen (The angel, Bass)

      Composer: Gottfried August Homilius

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Rahel Maas, André Morsch

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    11. Recitative: Kommt, nahet euch getrost herzu! (The angel, Bass)

      Composer: Gottfried August Homilius

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Rahel Maas, André Morsch

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    12. Chorale: Am Sabbat früh mit Spezerei kommen zum Grab (Chorus)

      Composer: Gottfried August Homilius

      Ensemble: Chor der Kölner Akademie, Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    13. Verwundrung nimmt Herz und Sinn auf einmal ein (Maria Magdalena, Maria Jacobi, Salome)

      Composer: Gottfried August Homilius

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Rahel Maas, Bethany Seymour, Elisabeth Popien

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    14. Recitative: Mein Glaube zweifelt weiter nicht (Tenor, Soprano, Bass)

      Composer: Gottfried August Homilius

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Georg Poplutz, Rahel Maas, André Morsch

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    15. Frohlocket und preiset den herrschenden Sieger (reprise) (Chorus)

      Composer: Gottfried August Homilius

      Ensemble: Chor der Kölner Akademie, Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    16. Darum freuet sich mein Herz (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Chor der Kölner Akademie, Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    17. Accompanied recitative: Die Erde bebt (Bass)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: André Morsch

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    18. Aria: Umkränzt Maria (Tenor)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Georg Poplutz

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    19. Recitative: Der ew'ge Hohepriester (Tenor)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Georg Poplutz

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    20. Held, der den Fels vom Grabe rückte (Alto, Bass)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Elisabeth Popien, André Morsch

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    21. Chorale: Da du vom Tod erstanden bist (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Chor der Kölner Akademie, Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    22. Harfe, töne darein (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Chor der Kölner Akademie, Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    23. Accompanied recitative with Arioso and Chorus: Erhabner Held (Soprano, Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Chor der Kölner Akademie, Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Hannah Morrison

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    24. Aria: Steigt Engel, steigt Freunde der Edlen, hernieder (Soprano)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Hannah Morrison

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    25. Chorale: Sei hoch gelobt in dieser Zeit von allen Gotteskindern (Chorus)

      Composer: Johann Friedrich Agricola

      Ensemble: Chor der Kölner Akademie, Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens


On this new production the Kölner Akademie has recorded two oratorios composed by members of the generation after Bach and explicitly focusing on the theme of the Resurrection. Johann Friedrich Agricola composed Die Auferstehung des Erlösers for performance in St. Peter’s Church in Berlin on the First Day of Easter in 1758, and Gottfried August Homilius wrote the Oratorium auf Ostern in 1767, when it was probably performed in the Church of Our Lady in Dresden. Agricola’s Easter cantata Der Gottmensch jauchzt is included with the two oratorios. Regarded during his lifetime as “certainly now absolutely the best church composer,” Homilius wrote an extensive cantata consisting of ten individual movements in the form of his oratorio for Easter. His music already displays elements of Early Classicism and the empfindsamer Stil, his cantata choruses are frequently of homophonic design and song character, and the polyphonic sections are rather rare. While the oratorio by Homilius continues to contain the historical component of the Easter event, Die Auferstehung des Erlösers by Agricola, with its subtitle Ein musikalisches Gedicht, is much more freely designed. The three accompagnato recitatives are of special musico-dramatic significance; in them the author of the text embellishes the earthquake accompanying the resurrection of Jesus and the mysterious event on the whole with rich verbal and pictorial formulations. The works presented here attest to the mastery of their composers. Arias of marvelous musical beauty, the naturalness of their expression, and the dramatic suspense in the individual movements continue to make for compelling listening even today.