Composer: Rheinhard Keiser
Performer: Olivia Vermeulen, Capella Orlandi Bremen
Conductor: Thomas Ihlenfeldt
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555060-2
Release: 2020
Size: 304 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Theatralische Music
01. Concerto
Die bis in den Tod geliebte Iris
02. Die Liebe währt bis in den Tod
Theatralische Music
03. Aria andante
L’occaso di Titone all’Aurora orient
04. Più chiare, più belle
Theatralische Music
05. Grave – Presto – Entrée
06. Mi lasci dunque
Theatralische Music
07. Menuet alternativement avec le trio
Carolus V (Excerpts)
08. Mit keinem Kuss, mit keinen Blicken
09. Wie spielet ihr Sternen
10. Kann’s möglich sein
Theatralische Music
11. Rondeau
12. Luci non vi turbate
Theatralische Music
13. Menuet alternativement avec le menuet II
14. Benche sempre crudel
Reinhard Keiser’s Kleine theatralische Musik contains arrangements of instrumental versions of opera numbers. This work involves a collection of ‘theater music’ compiled by the composer from his operas written prior to 1718. This work is complemented by further instrumental music as well as Keiser’s cantatas and arias. First, we have performances of works in their original source form: the cantata ‘Die bis in den Tod geliebte Iris’ and the ‘Theatralische Musik’. Second, we have arias and a cantata from an anthology in the Berlin State Library. Third and last, we have interpretations of cantatas that – in keeping with the composer’s practice – were taken over for his own arrangements. Reinhard Keiser is regarded as one of the most important German composers of the Baroque, and this new Keiser release offers proof of the profound stylistic knowledge and sophisticated instrumental and vocal culture of the ensemble led by Thomas Ihlenfeldt.
