Markus Schafer - Sacred Works - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The famous court orchestra of Prince Elector Carl Theodor of the Palatinate was distinguished by the fact that it's musicians were not only certified virtuosos on their instruments but also good composers. Some of these most highly capable musicians basked in the limelight of the international music world, while others stayed in the background without this meaning that they were less-talented musicians. One of them was the horn player and later double bassist Anton Dimler, a member of the Mannheim Court Orchestra who today is known as a composer only to a few specialists even though his works exhibit great quality. This is also true of his clarinet concertos, three of which have been recorded for the first time on the present . The focus in them is always on the highly virtuosic solo parts, while the orchestral accompaniment exercises a subordinate function. The soloist has the opportunity to display his brilliance with passagework, arpeggios, and shifts of register and makes all the colors of the clarinet shine over it's whole tonal gamut. Album Tracks 1. Clarinet Concerto in E flat major~Allegro 2. Clarinet Concerto in E flat major~Largo 3. Clarinet Concerto in E flat major~Rondeau. Allegro non troppo presto 4. Clarinet Concerto in B flat major (1796)~Allegro moderato 5. Clarinet Concerto in B flat major (1796)~Adagio espressivo 6. Clarinet Concerto in B flat major (1796)~Rondo. Allegro 7. Clarinet Concerto in B flat major~Allegro 8. Clarinet Concerto in B flat major~Poco Adagio 9. Clarinet Concerto in B flat major~Rondeau

In Berlin the composers Berthold Goldschmidt and Franz Reizenstein developed into products of the anti-romantic Inchnew realism.Inch However, both distanced themselves from this dry objectivity and sought more powerful means of expression while avoiding the late romantic excesses that at the time continued to predominate in Germany. The surprising fact is that neither Reizenstein nor Goldschmidt felt drawn to Schonberg's method of twelve-tone composition. In 1934 and 1935 both composers fled from Berlin to England, that is, prior to the tightening of immigration requirements. Influences from Reizenstein's teachers Paul Hindemith and Ralph Vaughan Williams are audible in the rather harsh, expressionistic character of his concerto. Raphael Wallfisch writes of this work, InchReizenstein's Cello Concerto is a tour de force for the cellist. What is involved here is an epic and heroic statement in which lyrical and dramatic elements alternate.Inch Album Tracks 1. Cello Concerto in G 2. Cello Concerto

Album Tracks 1. Jauchzet Dem Herrn, Alle Welt (BWV Anh. 160) Jauchzet Dem Herrn, Alle Welt 2. Jauchzet Dem Herrn, Alle Welt (BWV Anh. 160) Sei Lob Und Preis Mit Ehren 3. Jauchzet Dem Herrn, Alle Welt (BWV Anh. 160) Amen, Lob Und Ehre Und Weisheit 4. Unser Wandel Ist Im Himmel (BWV Anh. 165) 5. Nun Danket Alle Gott (BWV Anh. 164) 6. Ich Lasse Dich Nicht, Du Segnest Mich Denn (BWV Anh. 159) 7. Merk Auf, Mein Herz Und Sieh Dorthin (BWV Anh. 163) Merk Auf Mein Herz 8. Merk Auf, Mein Herz Und Sieh Dorthin (BWV Anh. 163) Es Ist Der Herr Christ Unser Gott 9. Merk Auf, Mein Herz Und Sieh Dorthin (BWV Anh. 163) Des Lasst Uns Alle Frohlich Sein 10. Merk Auf, Mein Herz Und Sieh Dorthin (BWV Anh. 163) Bist Willkommen, Du Edler Gast 11. Merk Auf, Mein Herz Und Sieh Dorthin (BWV Anh. 163) Ach, Ach Herr, Du Schopfer 12. Merk Auf, Mein Herz Und Sieh Dorthin (BWV Anh. 163) Ach Mein Herzliebes Jesulein 13. Merk Auf, Mein Herz Und Sieh Dorthin (BWV Anh. 163) Lob Ehr Sei Gott Im Hochsten Thron 14. Lob Und Ehre Und Weinsheit (BWV Anh. 162)