Composer: Georg Philipp Telemann
Performer: Alex Potter, La Dolcezza
Conductor: Veronika Skuplik
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555192-2
Release: 2019
Size: 445 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Cantata “Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht in deinem Zorn” TWV 7:1
01. AI. Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht in deinem Zorn
02. AII. Herr, sei mir gnädig, denn ich bin schwach
03. AIII. Ich bin so müde von Seufzen
04. AIV. Weichet, ihr Übeltäter
Fuga XIX TWV 30:19
05. Fugue in G Major, TWV 30:19
Missa brevis in B Minor, TWV 9:14
06. I. Kyrie eleison
07. II. Gloria in excelsis Deo
08. III. Laudamus te
09. IV. Gratias agimus tibi
10. V. Domine Deus, Rex caelestis
11. VI. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus
12. VII. Cum Sancto Spiritu
13. Fugue in D Minor, TWV 30:5
Cantata “Me miserum! Miseriarum TWV 1:1135
14. I. Me miserum
15. II. Jesu Christe, Tu es iste
16. III. Ut dirus peccatorum anguis
17. IV. Peccatum Deum equidem ad iram
18. V. Me Jesu, tibi felix anima
Violin Sonata in G Minor, TWV 41:g1
19. I. Adagio – II. Allegro – III. Adagio – IV. Vivace
Cantata “Ich wand’re fort” TWV 1:1100
20. Meines Bleibens ist nicht hier, TWV 1:1100
Alex Potter – praised by the press as “a rising star in the world of countertenors” – interprets sacred works by Telemann for cpo on this album. The setting of Psalm 6 continues to be thoroughly obliged to the tone of the sacred concertos of the seventeenth century associated with names such as Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Rosenmüller, and Johann Schelle. However, even though this psalm setting entitled “Ach, Herr strafe mich nicht” very much resembles similar works by older authors, it nevertheless displays a very special aura. Accompanied by two violins and basso continuo, an affectively nuanced narrative of a soul plagued by fear and hoping for the end of its torments is heard. The Missa in B minor is similar in style to the music of the psalm; it is what is known as a Lutheran »short mass,« which with its Kyrie and Gloria merely consists of two compositional complexes. All the numbers comprising “Me miserum” concern the faithful soul, which tells its story, is aware of its insufficiency but does not yield to despair, and therefore is able to register its experience of faith. A sonata and two fugues round off the album.