Schuetz / Saemann / Jantschek / Werneburg - Weihnachtshistorie (Christmas History) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Petrrohl, for 6 Voices 2. Cuatro Citas de Juan Goytisolo, for 2 Voices 3. Anatra Al Sal, for 6 Voices 4. Sequenza III, for Voice - Angelika Luz 5. I. All for Company 6. II. All for Company 7. III. All for Company 8. IV. All for Company 9. I. All for Company

No romantic artistic life à la Wagner or Puccini stands in the background of Egk's body of work. His artistic personality exhibits no monomania. Egk viewed himself with a certain objectivity; humor, wit, and sarcasm are the characteristic elements of such a distancing self-perspective. In many ways Egk can be considered an heir of the French 18th century, a descendent of Voltaire whom Egk first read and admired in his school years in Augsburg, and who remained an influence throughout Egk's life. So InchLa TentationInch is indicative of Egk's relationship to France, in particular the enlightenment of 18th century rationalism. Janet Walker alto / Werner-Egk-Quartett / Manfred Clement oboe / Ulf Rodenhäuser clarinet / Johannes Ritzkowsky horn / Eberhard Marschall bassoon / Werner Booz double bass. Album Tracks 1. La Tentation de Saint Antoine 2. Die Nachtigall 3. Polonaise, Adagio Und Finale

The WESER-RENAISSANCE ensemble had two goals in mind in it's concert series InchBreslau - A City in the Heart of EuropeInch the first was to offer musical enjoyment and the second was to remember an old cultural environment that had been forgotten for many decades. The music manuscripts and printed editions discovered in the Berlin State Library attest to the great diversity and high quality of music culture in what was once the capital of Silesia. InchDie Geburt unsers Herrn and Heylands Jesu ChristiInch (The Birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ), a Christmas narrative by Tobias Zeutschner, who was active at Breslau's principal churches St. Bernhardin and St. Mary Magdalene, forms the focus of the present selection from these sources in a program entitled InchWeihnachten i'm Breslau des 17. Jahrhunderts - Festmusik in der Kirche St. Maria MagdalenaInch (Christmas in Seventeenth-Century Breslau - Festive Music in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene). This early example of a Biblical history composition is richly scored for eighteen voices.