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Baroque Bass Cantatas

Baroque Bass Cantatas

Klaus Mertens Bass

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Tracks: 29
Length: 1:14:55

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Rel. 21 May 2010
Recorded 2007

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Baroque Bass Cantatas One can hardly think of a better bass-baritone in the early music realm than Klaus Mertens, and he keeps up such a busy slate of live appearances and recordings that one wonders if he keeps his bedroll next to the recording console. CPO's Lobt Gott ihr Christen allzugleich: Baroque Bass Cantatas from Central Germany puts Mertens through the paces of six very obscure early 18th century sacred cantatas for low voice, supported by the Accademia Daniel under Shalev Ad-El. What the cantatas all have in common is their source; all are known from copies kept at the Kantoreizarchiv at the church of St. Johannis in Mügeln. About the only composer one is in danger of knowing anything about is Georg Philipp Telemann, and although the cantata heard here is ascribed to him the style of the recitatives suggests that it actually might not be by him; indeed, whomever it's really by, Kaum ist der Heÿland auf der Erden does not shine with Telemann's usual ingenuity and brilliance. One composer is identified only as "Hoffmann" and nothing more is known about him; interestingly enough, Hoffman's is one of the better cantatas on the album.

Mertens, as always, is terrific, but some of these cantatas are not so hot. Johann Theodor Roembildt's cantata Es gebt kein andrer Weg zum Himmel has fairly nice solo passagework for the German flute, but the writing for the singer is rather strident, sing-songy, and pompous. One thing this disc makes clear—and this may or may not be something one would want to know—is that there are Baroque solo cantatas even more obscure than the most obscure Telemann cantatas, the repertoire's equivalent of observing planets orbiting around distant stars in the universe. For those obsessed with the knowledge of such extra-extra-terrestrial bodies, CPO's Baroque Bass Cantatas from Central Germany might well seem as manna from heaven. For more terrestrial tastes, no amount of contextualization will further clarify why it is worth getting out the telescope to observe works as plain and past their expiration date as these are.

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1 1.Aria: Nichts ist süßer als die Liebe 3:32
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2 2.Rezitativ: Wer wollte nicht von gantzem Hertzen lieben? 1:21
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3 3.Aria: Geuß das Feuer deiner Liebe 2:26
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4 4.Rezitativ: Denn Lieb ist stark, als wie der Todt 1:54
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5 5.Aria: Kein Todt macht mir die Augen triebe 2:59
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6 1.Aria: Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin 1:41
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7 2.Rezitativ: So hör ich Simeon voll heilger Wollust singen 2:36
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8 3.Aria: Ich fahre hin in Fried und Freuden 3:43
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9 1.Aria: Es geht kein andrer Weg zum Himmel 6:33
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10 2.Rezitativ: Mein Jesus, weil dein gantzes Leben 0:51
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11 3.Aria: So geh ich mit Gedult und hoffen 4:14
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12 1.Choral: Lobt Gott ihr Christen allzugleich 1:03
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13 2.Rezitativ: So lieb hat Gott die Welt 0:42
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14 3.Aria: Jesu Schöpffer aller Dinge 1:49
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15 4.Rezitativ: O Liebe, so nicht zu ergründen 1:13
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16 5.Aria: Höret doch an, ach höret es gern 1:53
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17 6.Rezitativ: Ja, ja, ach freÿlich ja 0:25
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18 7.Choral: Heut schleust Er wieder auf die Thür 1:06
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19 1.Aria: Mein Hertzens Hauß bereite dich 3:30
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20 2.Rezitativ: O Seelen Heÿl! 1:27
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21 3.Aria: Liebe die nicht auszusprechen 7:09
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22 1.Aria: Kaum ist der Heÿland auf der Erden 2:52
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23 2.Recit.: Herodes sucht den zu verderben 1:34
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24 3.Aria: Herr, die gantze Welt ist dein 2:43
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25 4.Recit.: Allein dein Elend hat gemeßen Lauff 1:40
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26 5.Aria: Wir sind Fremde hier auf Erden 3:47
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27 1.Aria: Meine Sonne stehet stille 5:39
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28 2.Rezitativ: Er ist meine Zuversicht 1:20
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29 3.Aria: In des Creutzes Finsternißen 3:13
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