Nurnberger Symphoniker Simonis - Waltzes Marches & Polkas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Gottorf Castle in Schleswig is not only one of Schleswig-Holstein's most important architectural monuments but also a culturally significant site inasmuch as it was within it's walls that the chapel masters of the local court ensemble once exercised their duties. Following Vol. 1 and it's sacred cantatas by Augustin Pfleger our new series featuring Music for Gottorf Castle continues with Vol. 2 here the WESER-RENAISSANCE ensemble under Manfred Cordes turns to cantatas and sacred concertos by Johann Philipp Förtsch, who was the Gottorf chapel master during 1680-84 and one of the particularly colorful musical personalities of his time. As an opera singer, librettist, and composer, Förtsch was a pioneer in the field of the German-language opera (with the Hamburg Opera House, founded in 1678, forming it's center). Any attempt to do justice to Förtsch's artistic multifacetedness would have to highlight three aspects his work in various genres for court performance, the transfer of his opera experience to sacred music, and his work with sacred songs. Splendid compositions featuring all sorts of different forms open and conclude this recording; these were works in which the court trumpeters were called on to participate. Such tone color was also a must for InchNun danket alle GottInch (set to a biblical text from the Book of Sirach) a court composition in honor of the heavenly king and crowned with an alleluia. Tonal magic of a special kind results when this work is performed in it's original setting. The Gottorf Castle Church, it's interior so richly endowed with wood carvings, hardly produces echo effects, so that even the rich string part remains transparent into it's middle voices, and over it the soft, baroque trumpet sound unfolds in all it's glory. Album Tracks 1. Nun Ist Des Satans Macht Gefallet 2. Ach, Ich Elender Mensch 3. Herr, Wer Wird Wohnen in Dei

Album Tracks 1. STR QT in E Flat Adagio Ma Non Troppo 2. STR QT in E Flat Allegretto 3. STR QT in E Flat Romanze 4. STR QT in E Flat Allegro Molto Vivace 5. STR QT Op.14 in G Allegro Appassionato 6. STR QT Op.14 in G Scherzo. Allegro Assai 7. STR QT Op.14 in G Adagio Con Molta Espressione 8. STR QT Op.14 in G Finale. Allegro Molto 9. QT No.2 in B Flat Andantino 10. QT No.2 in B Flat Allegro 11. QT No.3 in G Tempo Giusto 12. QT No.3 in G Allegro

Who doesn't know this loveable master of light entertainment? asked an admiring critic in 1925, when Berlin composer and Siegfried Translateur celebrated his 50th birthday. Although this rhetorical question does not likely garner even a nominal response today, 150 years after his birth, concert halls were once filled with thunderous applause. The man from Upper Silesia did well for himself with his compositions, not to mention that his student work Wiener Praterleben had just become the hymn of Berlin's Six Day Race and had been transformed to the InchSportspalastwalzerInch. When Reinhold Franz Habisch aka InchKruckeInch whistled, the InchNudeltoppInch boiled over. But Translateur is so much more. He knows what flowers are dreaming of, he takes a stroll through the big city, waltzes jauntily through life - a charming proponent of a silver era that never really went away.