Hertel: Sinfonias; Organ Concerto; Cello Concertos / Messerschmidt, Schönheit, Merseburger Hofmusik

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Label
CPO
Release Date
August 6, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HERTEL, JOHANN WILHELM
    • PERFORMER
      Messerschmidt, Merseburger Hofmusik, Schonheit
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 06, 2021
    • UPC
      761203520329
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555203-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro di molto

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    2. II. Andante

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    3. III. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    4. I. Allegro con spirito

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Performer: Bettina Messerschmidt

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    5. II. Adagio poco andante

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Performer: Bettina Messerschmidt

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    6. III. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Performer: Bettina Messerschmidt

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    7. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Performer: Michael Schönheit

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    8. II. Largo

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Performer: Michael Schönheit

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    9. III. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Performer: Michael Schönheit

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    10. I. Allegro

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    11. II. Andante

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    12. III. Presto

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    13. I. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Performer: Bettina Messerschmidt

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    14. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Performer: Bettina Messerschmidt

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit

    15. III. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Johann Wilhelm Hertel

      Ensemble: Merseburger Hofmusik

      Performer: Bettina Messerschmidt

      Conductor: Michael Schönheit


Since only a very few compositions from Johann Wilhelm Hertel’s complete oeuvre were printed during his lifetime, the dissemination of his music was very limited and restricted. The rediscovery of this master’s two cello concertos in the early 1990s already represented a great enrichment of the repertoire of violoncello concertos from the age of Empfindsamkeit and the style galant around 1750. Bettina Messerschmidt became acquainted with Hertel’s music at the beginning of her career as a Baroque cellist and enthusiastically welcomed the warmth, power, and melodiousness of his compositions right from the very start. In the concertos she often develops a dialogue between the cello and the strings through contrasting expression of an intensity recalling the cello concertos written by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach around the same time. Along with two symphonies by Hertel, his only organ concerto, in all probability composed during 1756-57, is heard on our new releases. Here too the organ shines in dancy movements with fiery figurations