Chalumeaux – Concertos, ouvertures & sonatas

Ars Antiqua Austria

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If people are innocent of the name of Christoph Graupner in Vienna or anywhere else in Austria this should be neither a surprise nor anything to be ashamed of, because the sphere of influence of this contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Joseph Fux was in faraway Darmstadt, a small residence capital of the landgrave in Hesse about twenty miles south of Frankfurt. What is more, Graupner never visited Vienna in his life. Graupner’s employer Ernst Ludwig was an opera enthusiast; after becoming acquainted with the young harpsichordist and composer Graupner – who had received his musical education in Leipzig – some time in the period from autumn 1706 and 1708 at the Hamburg Gänsemarkt Opera House, Ernst Ludwig appointed him Kapellmeister in Darmstadt in 1709. The court household there was that of a comparatively small landgrave, Protestant in inclination – one of the numerous German principalities in the German Lands. But in his ambition for prestige and luxurious pastimes – particularly hunting – the Darmstadt regent by no means took second place even to the pre-eminent courts. Thus in 1723, he secured Graupner’s presence in Darmstadt for life by a generous rise in salary, which made the court Kapellmeister the best paid orchestra director of his time and simultaneously stopped Graupner from taking off to Leipzig, where he had been offered the post of Thomaskantor, the choirmaster of St Thomas’s. Another thirty-seven years were to pass in the service of the Darmstadt landgrave before Graupner eventually died in 1760; he had gone blind, thus in the last six years of his life could no longer actively direct the fortunes of the orchestra.

Tracklist

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1.
Concerto a 2 Chalumeaux, 2 Violis. Viola e Cembalo C-Dur GWV 303- Vivace
04:22
2.
Concerto a 2 Chalumeaux, 2 Violis. Viola e Cembalo C-Dur GWV 303- Andante
03:33
3.
Concerto a 2 Chalumeaux, 2 Violis. Viola e Cembalo C-Dur GWV 303- Allegro
03:51
4.
Sonata per Cembalo obligato e Violino g-Moll GWV 709- Largo
02:34
5.
Sonata per Cembalo obligato e Violino g-Moll GWV 709- Allegro
01:44
6.
Sonata per Cembalo obligato e Violino g-Moll GWV 709- Andante
01:58
7.
Sonata per Cembalo obligato e Violino g-Moll GWV 709- Vivace
02:37
8.
Ouverture a 3 Chalum. 2 Violis. Viola e Cembalo F-Dur GWV 449
02:43
9.
Ouverture a 3 Chalum. 2 Violis. Viola e Cembalo F-Dur GWV 449- Allegro
05:55
10.
Ouverture a 3 Chalum. 2 Violis. Viola e Cembalo F-Dur GWV 449- Bergerie
02:36
11.
Ouverture a 3 Chalum. 2 Violis. Viola e Cembalo F-Dur GWV 449- Air
01:52
12.
Ouverture a 3 Chalum. 2 Violis. Viola e Cembalo F-Dur GWV 449- Le Desire
02:48
13.
Ouverture a 3 Chalum. 2 Violis. Viola e Cembalo F-Dur GWV 449- Rejourissance
02:11
14.
Ouverture a 3 Chalum. 2 Violis. Viola e Cembalo F-Dur GWV 449- La Speranza amoroso
06:50
15.
Ouverture a 3 Chalum. 2 Violis. Viola e Cembalo F-Dur GWV 449- Menuet
03:15
16.
Sonata per Cembalo e Violino?g-Moll GWV 711- Largo
03:01
17.
Sonata per Cembalo e Violino?g-Moll GWV 711- Presto
01:30
18.
Sonata per Cembalo e Violino?g-Moll GWV 711- Largo
03:27
19.
Sonata per Cembalo e Violino?g-Moll GWV 711- Menuet
02:45
20.
Ouverture a? 2 Corn- Tym- 2 Chalum- 2 Violin. Viola, Fagott e Cembalo F-Dur GWV 452
07:07
21.
Ouverture a? 2 Corn- Tym- 2 Chalum- 2 Violin. Viola, Fagott e Cembalo F-Dur GWV 452- Menuet
02:08
22.
Ouverture a? 2 Corn- Tym- 2 Chalum- 2 Violin. Viola, Fagott e Cembalo F-Dur GWV 452- Air
02:40
23.
Ouverture a? 2 Corn- Tym- 2 Chalum- 2 Violin. Viola, Fagott e Cembalo F-Dur GWV 452- Tempo di Saraba
02:21
24.
Ouverture a? 2 Corn- Tym- 2 Chalum- 2 Violin. Viola, Fagott e Cembalo F-Dur GWV 452
00:40

Total time: 01:14:28

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CC72539

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Cables

Siltech

Digital Converters

DCS

Mastering Equipment

Avalon Acoustic

Microphones

Sonodore

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Original Recording Format

Producer

Bert van der Wolf

Recording Engineer

Bert van der Wolf

Recording location

Stift St. Florian bei Linz an der Donau

Recording Software

Pyramix

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DSD64

Release DateOctober 11, 2014

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The Chalumeaux Concerti catapults to a position of special interest/enthusiasm for me with the use of chalumeaux, an early predecessor of the clarinet (albeit with much more attractive tonality to my ear). The opening work is a concerto for two chalumeaux, together with two violins, viola and harpsichord. I find it a completely captivating piece, one I’ve not heard before. In fact, all of the music on this album is new to me, as is the composer Christoph Graupner. I found the album a very enjoyable transversal of new musical territory, and I’ve come back to it multiple times for a re-listen over the past week. I expect I shall do so multiple times again.

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