Kieling - St Matthew Passion
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Label: Arcantus
Cat No: ARC20020
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 7th January 2022
Contents
Artists
Felix Heuser (tenor)Vincent Berger (bass)
Malwine Nicolaus (soprano)
Clemens Walter Thom (countertenor)
Michael Gattwinkel (tenor)
Arthur Leopold Engel (bass)
La Protezione della Musica
Conductor
Jeroen FinkeWorks
St Matthew PassionArtists
Felix Heuser (tenor)Vincent Berger (bass)
Malwine Nicolaus (soprano)
Clemens Walter Thom (countertenor)
Michael Gattwinkel (tenor)
Arthur Leopold Engel (bass)
La Protezione della Musica
Conductor
Jeroen FinkeAbout
On the present double CD the performers perform the world premiere of the St Matthew Passion by Johann Cyriacus Kieling (1670–1727), a baroque composer from Sachsen-Anhalt. Stylistically this Passion is a fusion of Schütz and Bach, sometimes highly emotional; it contains numerous short, songful and expressive arias, descriptive recitatives and virtuoso choruses.
The gospel text is very much in the arioso style, and is strongly reminiscent of the sound aesthetic of seventeenth-century histories. In its musical structure with choruses, chorales, recitatives and explanatory arias however, the work anticipates the monumental High Baroque settings of the St Matthew Passion by composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, written some twenty years later.
The very youthful musicians from the St Thomas Choir in Leipzig and the colleges of music in Leipzig, Bremen and Dresden perform very grippingly and with great vitality.
After hearing this world première recording the listener will look forward to further projects from this ensemble.
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