Kindermann: Opitianischer Orpheus / Siedlaczek, Kobow, United Continuo Ensemble

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CPO
Release Date
October 4, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      KINDERMANN, JOHANN ERASMUS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      United Continuo Ensemble
    • PERFORMER
      Siedlaczek, Kobow
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 04, 2019
    • UPC
      761203512324
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555123-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Opitianischer Orpheus, Part I: No. 4. Jetzund kommt die Nacht herbei

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Jan Kobow

    2. Opitianischer Orpheus, Part II: No. 12. O, du kleiner nackter Schütze

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Ina Siedlaczek, Jan Kobow

    3. Opitianischer Orpheus, Part I: No. 13. Allhier in dieser wüsten Heid

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Ina Siedlaczek, Jan Kobow

    4. Opitianischer Orpheus, Part II: No. 7. Zehnte von den Pierinnen

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Jan Kobow

    5. Violin Sonata in D Minor

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Irina Kisselova

    6. No. 1. Ich empfinde fast eine Grauen

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Jan Kobow

    7. No. 3. Wann sich der werte Gast, die Seele, nun soll scheiden

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Ina Siedlaczek

    8. No. 5. O Wertest auf der Welt, o Schönest aller Schönen

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Jan Kobow

    9. Violin Sonata in G Minor

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Claudia Mende

    10. No. 10. Hochzeitlied

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Ina Siedlaczek, Jan Kobow

    11. No. 5. Als ich nächst war ausspazieret

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Ina Siedlaczek, Jan Kobow

    12. No. 10. Es hat der Jupiter

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Ina Siedlaczek, Jan Kobow

    13. No. 7. Nachtklag

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Jan Kobow

    14. No. 14. Dialogus zwischen Amandus und Amoena

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Ina Siedlaczek, Jan Kobow

    15. No. 9. O wohl dem, der die rechte Zeit

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Ina Siedlaczek

    16. No. 4. Ach Liebste, lass uns eilen

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Jan Kobow

    17. Opitianischer Orpheus, Part I: No. 12. Schwarz ist mein Farb

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Ina Siedlaczek

    18. No. 11. Corydon sprach mit Verlangen

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Ina Siedlaczek, Jan Kobow

    19. No. 1. Ist irgend zu erfragen ein Schäfer um den Rhein

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Jan Kobow

    20. No. 2. Kommt, lasst uns ausspazieren

      Composer: Johann Erasmus Kindermann

      Ensemble: United Continuo Ensemble

      Performer: Ina Siedlaczek


By his own account, Erasmus Kindermann was pressured by friends into setting poems by Martin Opitz to music and did so in works such as his Opitianischer Orpheus. The poems that he chose for the most part were selections from the Bucher Deutscher Poemata. The texts of the songs mostly focus on themes taken from ancient models: “carpe diem” and “memento mori” as well as love’s joy and love’s grief. Poems with moral and religious content and for special occasions and entertainment are also represented, and the pastoral idyll often provides the scenic background. The instrumental preludes and interludes consist of only a few measures but very skillfully render the character of the particular song and underscore its textual message. In the subtitle of his Opitianischer Orpheus Kindermann terms his poem settings “Musical Delights,” in this way clearly emphasizing his intention not to compose laments on sad times but instead to convey joy, intellectual stimulation, and pleasure. Instead of designing the music for the poems in his Opitianischer Orpheus as an opulent work in multiple voices for a larger concert setting, Kindermann very deliberately chose chamber music as his medium. He presumably had in mind, both in view of the performers and the audience members, a group of music lovers with literary ambitions who had received a humanistic education and met for social gatherings in order to present songs or to listen to their recital. The composer intentionally refrained from including broad melismas in the song melodies. As a result, the individual songs develop a characteristically strong succinctness that continues to resonate and invites listeners to sing and play along in enjoyable social settings.