Telemann: Easter Cantatas / Willens, Orchester der Kölner Akademie

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CPO
Release Date
August 20, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      TELEMANN, GEORG PHILIPP
    • PERFORMER
      Winkel, Oitzinger, Poplutz, Kooij, Willens, Kolner Akademie
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 20, 2021
    • UPC
      761203542529
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555425-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Aria: Ich war tot und siehe, ich bin lebendig (Bass)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    2. Chorale: Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Margot Oitzinger, Georg Poplutz, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    3. Aria: Jesus lebt, wir sollen leben (Soprano)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    4. Aria: Wer will die Auserwählten Gottes beschuldigen? (Alto)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Margot Oitzinger

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    5. Aria: Herrsche, siege, triumphiere, mein Erlöser (Tenor)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Georg Poplutz

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    6. Chorale: O süßer Herre Jesu Christ

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Margot Oitzinger, Georg Poplutz, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    7. Sinfonia

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    8. Accompanied recitative: Triumph! Ihr Frommen freuet euch (Tenor)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Georg Poplutz

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    9. Aria: Unsere Schuld bleibt tot zurücke (Soprano, Bass)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    10. Chorale: Des Herren Rechte, die behält den Sieg

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Margot Oitzinger, Georg Poplutz, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    11. Aria: Lass dein erquickend holdes Rat in Angst (Soprano, Alto)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Margot Oitzinger

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    12. Der Tod ist verschlungen in den Sieg (Chorus)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Margot Oitzinger, Georg Poplutz, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    13. Die Kraft aber der Sünde ist das Gesetz (Chorus)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Margot Oitzinger, Georg Poplutz, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    14. Chorale: O Tod, wo ist dein Stachel nun

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Margot Oitzinger, Georg Poplutz, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    15. Duet: Er ist auferstanden (Tenor, Bass)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Georg Poplutz, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    16. Recitative: So wechselt Leid und Freud (Tenor)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Georg Poplutz

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    17. Aria: Victoria, gewonnen, mein Jesus hat gesiegt (Tenor)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Georg Poplutz

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    18. Recitative: Nun sind wir frei (Bass)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    19. Aria: Mein Jesus ist gekommen (Bass)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    20. Recitative: So sei demnach (Tenor)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Georg Poplutz

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    21. Chorale: Triumph, ihr Menschenkinder! (Tenor, Bass)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Georg Poplutz, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    22. Duet: Brannte nicht unser Herz in uns (Alto, Tenor)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Margot Oitzinger, Georg Poplutz

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    23. Aria: Ach, wie selig sind wir doch (Soprano)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    24. Chorale: Lobt ihn mit Herz und Munde

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Margot Oitzinger, Georg Poplutz, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    25. Aria: Lernt das Eitle doch verachten (Alto)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Margot Oitzinger

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    26. Aria: Lasset kein faul Geschwätz aus eurem Munde gehn (Bass) - Und betrübet nicht den Heiligen Geist Gottes (Chorus)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Margot Oitzinger, Georg Poplutz, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    27. Chorale: Herr, gib, dass ich dein Ehre

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Margot Oitzinger, Georg Poplutz, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    28. Sinfonia

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    29. Accompanied recitative: Verlass doch einst, o Mensch (Alto)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Margot Oitzinger

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    30. Aria: Ich will mich in der Freiheit sehn (Soprano, Tenor)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Georg Poplutz

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    31. Chorale: Du bist der, der mich tröst

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Margot Oitzinger, Georg Poplutz, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    32. Aria: Meine Sünde ist verschieden (Soprano, Bass)

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens

    33. Chorale: Ist meine Bosheit groß, so werd ich ihr doch los

      Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ensemble: Orchester der Kölner Akademie

      Performer: Johanna Winkel, Margot Oitzinger, Georg Poplutz, Peter Kooij

      Conductor: Michael Alexander Willens


Our album presents a selection of five works from the extensive, largely unexplored Easter Cantata oeuvre created by Georg Philipp Telemann during the course of his sixty years in Eisenach (1708-12), Frankfurt am Main (1712-21), and Hamburg (1721-67). Four of the works recorded here date from the 1720s and take us back to the years in Telemann’s creative life as a composer when he was the new music director of Hamburg’s five principal churches and was reorganizing the city’s church music and modernizing it in musical respects. The two cantatas from the “Annual Cycle without Recitatives” refrain from use of larger ensembles with brass and woodwind instruments and concertizing instrumental voices; the focus is on the arias and quotations from the Bible, and of these it is above all the opening dictum that is very extensive and often elaborated with rich counterpoint. On the whole, the annual cycle has an intimate, subdued character. Its music does not score points with tonal effects; instead, it generates appeal with refinements in the musical setting of the texts. The cantatas of the “Second Lingen Annual Cycle” are characterized by a fixed sequence of movement forms. The initial sinfonia is followed by an accompagnato recitative, and this weighty exordium is succeeded by two duets in alternation with chorale strophes. The duets are da capo arias and designed in such a way that one voice sings the A part, while the other voice sings the B part.

REVIEW:

Telemann has an almost inexhaustible facility for good melodies, piquant harmony, and a colorful yet discrete orchestration. To pull this off requires considerable focus and attention by the performers, and here Michael Willens knows his stuff. The tempos are all carefully chosen, the phrasing precise, and the sound clear. Soprano Johanna Winkel, who doesn’t have a great deal to do, has a clear and rather lyrical voice, while alto Margot Oitzinger is richer but not too dark in terms of tone. The real vocal work is done by Georg Poplutz, no stranger to this style of music or the composer, but the hero seems to be bass Peter Kooij, whose rich tone and vocal dexterity are evident from the start. In short, these are terrific works, varied and yet copacetic with each other, and the excellent performance of the Kölner Akademie produces a disc that should win kudos, even from jaded Telemann enthusiasts.

-- Fanfare