Magnificat - Christmas in Leipzig Solomon's Knot

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Album info

Album-Release:
2019

HRA-Release:
15.11.2019

Label: Sony Classical

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Choral

Artist: Solomon's Knot

Composer: Johann Schelle (1648-1701), Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)

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  • Johann Schelle (1648 - 1701):
  • 1Machet die Tore weit09:11
  • Johann Kuhnau (1660 - 1722): Magnificat in C Major:
  • 2Magnificat in C Major: I. Magnificat anima mea02:03
  • 3Magnificat in C Major: II. Et exsultavit spiritus meus02:04
  • 4Magnificat in C Major: III. Quia respexit humilitatem02:38
  • 5Magnificat in C Major: IV. Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her00:55
  • 6Magnificat in C Major: V. Quia fecit mihi magna01:37
  • 7Magnificat in C Major: VI. Freut euch und jubiliert01:39
  • 8Magnificat in C Major: VII. Et misericordia eius03:30
  • 9Magnificat in C Major: VIII. Fecit potentiam00:59
  • 10Magnificat in C Major: IX. Deposuit potentes00:34
  • 11Magnificat in C Major: X. Esurientes implevit bonis01:13
  • 12Magnificat in C Major: XI. Gloria in excelsis Deo01:06
  • 13Magnificat in C Major: XII. Suscepit Israel02:19
  • 14Magnificat in C Major: XIII. Sicut locutus est01:39
  • 15Magnificat in C Major: XIV. Virga Jesse floruit02:01
  • 16Magnificat in C Major: XV. Gloria Patri, gloria Filio01:39
  • 17Magnificat in C Major: XVI. Sicut erat in principio01:37
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a:
  • 18Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: I. Magnificat anima mea02:50
  • 19Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: II. Et exsultavit02:21
  • 20Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: III. Vom Himmel hoch01:34
  • 21Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: IV. Quia respexit04:12
  • 22Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: V. Quia fecit mihi magna02:11
  • 23Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: V. Freut euch und jubiliert01:21
  • 24Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: VII. Et misericordia eius03:26
  • 25Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: VIII. Fecit potentiam01:44
  • 26Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: IX. Gloria in excelsis Deo01:00
  • 27Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: X. Deposuit potentes01:49
  • 28Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: XI. Esurientes implevit bonis02:35
  • 29Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: XII. Virga Jesse floruit03:09
  • 30Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: XIII. Suscepit Israel01:55
  • 31Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: XIV. Sicut locutus est01:38
  • 32Magnificat in E-Flat Major, BWV 243a: XV. Gloria Patri02:02
  • Total Runtime01:10:31

Info for Magnificat - Christmas in Leipzig

»Bekannt für Tatkraft und Risikobereitschaft ebenso wie für historische Authentizität und intelligente Programmierung« … »Ein echter Kick für den Barock« schreibt die Presse über Solomon’s Knot. Mit seinem neuen Album gibt das in London gegründete Ensemble einen Einblick in das musikalische Leben der Stadt Leipzig um 1700 anhand der Karrieren dreier Komponisten, die maßgeblich das musikalische Leben Leipzigs geprägt haben – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Johann Schelle (1648–1701) und Johann Kuhnau (1660–1722). Johann Schelle, vormals Mitglied des Chores der Dresdner Hofkapelle u. a. unter Heinrich Schütz, kam als Jugendlicher nach Leipzig und beeindruckte schnell den Rat der Stadt solcherart, dass ihm 1677 die Stelle des Thomaskantors, das gewichtigste Amt im musikalischen Leben von Leipzig, angeboten wurde. Die diese Aufnahme eröffnende Kantate »Machet die Tore weit« wurde von Schelle für den ersten Adventssonntag komponiert und zelebriert die Wiederkunft Jesu Christi. Schelle nutzt ein beträchtliches Orchester mit Trompeten und Pauken, sehr typisch für festliche Musik in Leipzig zu jener Zeit. Der Kantate folgt das Magnificat von Johann Kuhnau – wahrscheinlich am besten bekannt als Komponist eines Zyklus programmatischer Kompositionen für Tasteninstrumente, welcher Passagen aus dem Alten Testament beschreibt. Kuhnaus Magnificat in C-Dur ist sein größtes erhaltenes Vokalwerk, das möglicherweise auch Johann Sebastian Bach für seine Version des Magnificats inspiriert haben könnte. Bach komponierte das Es-Dur Magnificat BWV 243a (älter als die bekanntere und überarbeitete D-Dur Version BWV243, und versehen mit einer leicht geänderten Instrumentalisierung) für seinen ersten Weihnachtstag in Leipzig. Das Magnificat ist durchsetzt mit Texten von Martin Luther und dem Lukas Evangelium (laudes), vertont für Chor oder Solisten und fasst so die Weihnachtsgeschichte zusammen; Bach muss Kuhnaus Fassung dieser Texte gekannt haben.

Solomon's Knot
Jonathan Sells, Leitung




Solomon's Knot
Determined to communicate the full power of 17th- and 18th-century music as directly as possible, the collective Solomon’s Knot was founded in London in 2008. Led by artistic director Jonathan Sells, the group performs without a conductor, the singers by heart.

What began a decade ago as a promise never to lose the joy of performing, to blow the dust off early music and break down the barriers of classical music has evolved into Solomon’s Knot’s reputation today: direct communication, adventurous programming and bold trademark performances from memory.

Our flexible approach enables us to explore a wide range of repertoire, especially music written before 1800, from the madrigals of Gesualdo to JS Bach’s Mass in B minor with 10 singers and 20 instrumentalists, or the rediscovery of the anonymous opera Lospedale' (ca. 1650), available on DVD.

By exploring new ways of presenting ancient music to ‘modern’ ears, eyes and minds, we work closely together with directors, composers, choreographers, visual artists, and other ensembles. From 2013-2017 Solomon’s Knot was part of Snape Malting’s inaugural Open Space development scheme. Recent collaborations include projects with Spira mirabilis, Sven Werner, James Hurley, Tim Caroll, Federay Holmes and Les Passions de l’Ame.

We are grateful to Sir John Eliot Gardiner for his invitations to the Bachfest Leipzig in 2016 and his Barbican Bach Weekend in 2018. We have also appeared at the Aldeburgh Festival, Händel-Festspiele Halle, Newbury Spring Festival, Thüringer Bachwochen, Regensburger Tage Alter Musik, Spitalfields Music Winter Festival, London Handel Festival, and St John’s Smith Square Christmas Festival.

Solomon’s Knot finished 2018 with the revival of our project ‘Christmas in Leipzig' in Nottingham and London’s Milton Court, recorded live and released on Sony Classical in 2019. “Time and again zig-zagging choruses, lightly accompanied, sprang into fire almost as if by spontaneous combustion. Most exciting.” The Times *****

Concerts in 2019 included our Wigmore Hall debut with the second version of JS Bach’s Johannes-Passion, returns to the Thüringer Bachwochen, Leipzig Bachfest, and St George’s Bristol, a residency at the Ryedale Festival, and our first appearance at the Bachwochen in Thun (Switzerland).

SKonnect, Solomon’s Knot’s education strategy, aims to take the excitement of so-called ‘early’ music into classrooms and workshops around the UK and further afield. Recently, schools in Nottingham and London have benefitted from hearing musicians perform for them live and explain the wonders of this colourful and exhilarating repertoire.



Booklet for Magnificat - Christmas in Leipzig

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