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Release Date: 07 February 2025
Label: Querstand
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4025796022063
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
The ensemble's name is also a program - because "princely music" refers to all the many works that were composed for church services, tables, celebrations and evening entertainment and were indispensable for the diverse musical life at court. In Thuringia and Saxony in particular, the sources of this courtly art are richly handed down and have occupied the ensemble leaders Anne Schumann and Sebastian Knebel for years. They are tracing the diverse traditions - also with the help of musicologists such as Manfred Fechner - and have already been able to identify many musical treasures in libraries and archives and bring them to life again, for example on the current CD sonatas by Johann Wilhelm Furchheim and arias by Adam Krieger.
As the person responsible for the princely table music at the Saxon court, Furchheim was very familiar with the associated mandatory "procedures" at banquets. The musicians of the court orchestra who were required to attend to the table played primarily in the breaks between courses, but "musical accompaniment" during the meal could also be arranged. The repertoire that the musicians who attended the table had to deal with was also extensive and varied.
The "Musicalische Taffel-Bedienung", a collection of six five-part ensemble pieces entitled "Sonata", printed in Dresden in 1674, may have been used by Johann Wilhelm Furchheim in the sense described to provide the musical accompaniment for banquets - but (if only for reasons of the expensive print publication) the author probably intended it more as "performance music", as he wanted to use the publication to show what he was capable of as a composer, which would mean that the collection could be assigned to the category of "autonomous chamber music" - although it was not yet called that at the time.
The CD is complemented by another sonata by Furchheim that has been preserved in Uppsala, as well as four arias (songs) by Adam Krieger, who was a friend of Furchheim. It can be assumed that the instrumental ritornellos that always follow the vocal verses in the Krieger arias were composed by Furchheim.
Tracklisting
Horst Wolf
Pieter van Dijk
Mirella Hagen, Tobias Berndt, Frank-Immo Zichner
Mechthild Winter
Maria Ladurner, Martin Riccabona, cappella Argentina
Kristin Henneberg, Susanne Rabbach, Andreas Hartmann
Juliane Laake, Ensemble Art d'Echo
Jean-Michel Douiller
Hans-Jurg Strub; Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen; Christian Erny
Sinfonieorchester Gottingen
London Sinfonietta; David Atherton
Antal Dorati; Philharmonia Hungarica
Karel Ancerl; Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Yoichi Sugiyama
David Rabinovich
Badische Staatskapelle, Georg Fritzsch
