Kagel - Alexandre Tharaud - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The seven works brought together on Vol. 4 of our complete recording of Kuhnau's cantatas offer a remarkable cross section featuring sacred works - and more. They have also been transmitted in all sorts of different ways. The spectrum ranges from extant autographs and original printed editions leaving no doubt about Kuhnau's authorship to copies from what was clearly a later time or sources from rather peripheral lines of transmission in which the materials themselves as well as the stylistic findings offer reasons for critical skepticism about the ascription of the works to Kuhnau. The most reliable sources as far as authenticity is concerned are those for the two burial songs InchGott hat uns nicht gesetzt zum ZornInch and InchAch, Gott, wie lässt du mich verstarren.Inch These two works are from Kuhnau's early period but nonetheless pieces of great artistic mastery and have to be regarded as model examples of the church style that exercised an absolutely enormous influence on the formation of the church styles of Bach, Handel, and Telemann.

This album brings together world premiere recordings of three aesthetically diverse piano concertos that were written for Alexandre Tharaud. They are Left, alone by the Dane Hans Abrahamsen (b. 1952), Future is a faded song by the Frenchman Gérard Pesson (b.1958) and Kuleshov by the Argentian-born Frenchman Oscar Strasnoy (b.1970). Strasnoy has said that his concerto was Inchinspired by Alexandre Tharaud's unique and inimitable phrasing and clarity of playing.Inch No doubt those words could apply to all three works on the album.

Mauricio Kagel by himself The composer, theater maker, filmmaker, virtuoso, writer of radio plays and, on the whole, all-round talent conducts his own works. Recorded 17 - 20 September 1991, Saarlundischer Rundfunk, Funkhaus Halberg in Germany. All selections newly remastered.