Schürmann: Cantatas / Cordes, Weser-Renaissance Bremen

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CPO
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August 13, 2021
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      SCHURMANN, GEORG CASPAR
    • PERFORMER
      Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Cordes
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 13, 2021
    • UPC
      761203537426
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555374-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Auf! Jauchzet, lobsinget dem König der Ehren! (Chorus)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Verena Gropper, Marie Luise Werneburg, David Erler, Hans Jörg Mammel, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    2. Aria: Gott, der sein Zion nicht vergisst (Soprano 1, Tenor)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Marie Luise Werneburg, Hans Jörg Mammel

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    3. So wollen wir dir, Herr (Chorus)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Verena Gropper, Marie Luise Werneburg, David Erler, Hans Jörg Mammel, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    4. Aria: Das Licht, das vormals (All)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Verena Gropper, Marie Luise Werneburg, David Erler, Hans Jörg Mammel, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    5. Aria: Auch die nun unter ihren Schatten (All)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Verena Gropper, Marie Luise Werneburg, David Erler, Hans Jörg Mammel, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    6. Auf! Jauchzet, lobsinget dem König der Ehren! Hallelujah (Chorus)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Verena Gropper, Marie Luise Werneburg, David Erler, Hans Jörg Mammel, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    7. Aria: Nimm das Opfer unsrer Herzen

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Marie Luise Werneburg

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    8. Recitative: Des Jahres neuer Lauf

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Marie Luise Werneburg

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    9. Aria: Deinen reichen Vatersegen

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Marie Luise Werneburg

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    10. Recitative: Des Landes höchstes Glück

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Marie Luise Werneburg

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    11. Aria: Erhöre unser sehnlichs Flehen

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Marie Luise Werneburg

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    12. Recitative: So recht! Der Himmel schenkt uns

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Marie Luise Werneburg

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    13. Aria: So lebe beglücket der weiseste Vater

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Marie Luise Werneburg

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    14. Aria: Siehe, eine Jungfrau ist schwanger (Bass)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Wolf Matthias Friedrich

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    15. Recitative: Hier irret die Vernunft (Soprano)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Verena Gropper

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    16. Aria: Der die Welt beweget (Soprano)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Verena Gropper

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    17. Da die Zeit erfüllet war (Chorus)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Verena Gropper, Marie Luise Werneburg, David Erler, Hans Jörg Mammel, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    18. Aria: Beherrscher aller Welt (Alto)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: David Erler

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    19. Recitative: Iich zittre fast hierob! (Bass)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Wolf Matthias Friedrich

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    20. Recitative: Was soll doch dieser Tausch? (Tenor)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Hans Jörg Mammel

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    21. Duet: ach ja! Die teure Lieb (Tenor, Bass)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: Hans Jörg Mammel, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes

    22. Aria and Recitative: Do sei dann, werter Hort (Alto, Chorus)

      Composer: Georg Caspar Schürmann

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen

      Performer: David Erler, Verena Gropper, Marie Luise Werneburg, Hans Jörg Mammel, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

      Conductor: Manfred Cordes


The fifth concert in our series of “Music from Wolfenbüttel Castle” features performances and recordings of multifaceted cantatas by Georg Caspar Schürmann. Like no other musician before him, Schürmann exercised a comprehensive influence on the Wolfenbüttel court music world during his more than fifty years of service there. During these decades he produced an impressively extensive and richly varied oeuvre: almost thirty operas, numerous table compositions, a Passion, and church cantatas for large ensembles are documented. In his Christmas cantata “Siehe, eine Jungfrau ist schwanger” we experience Schürmann as a composer of gripping ensemble compositions with finely chiseled fugue subjects. For many years the anonymous New Year’s cantata “Nimm das Opfer unsrer Hertzen” was also ascribed to Schürmann. Although Georg Österreich is now assumed to have been its composer, the opening aria in particular with its highly effective postponement of the resolution of dissonances displays a clear stylistic closeness to Schürmann’s opera arias from this time.