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In the 18th century, "well-populated" church music was a self-evident tradition throughout central Germany: church services were embellished along the ecclesiastical year with cantatas appropriate to the liturgy for the glory of God, but also for the joy and "spiritual edification" of the visitors. From this treasure of hitherto unknown Christmas music, four cantatas by Ernst Wilhelm Wolf are presented for the first time on this recording. Wolf worked as court kapellmeister in Weimar, and the fact that Goethe rejected him as "self-indulgent" should not prevent us from admiring him as a very important composer of the transition.
Musically, Wolf was greatly influenced by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in the sensitive style and by the works of the Berlin Kapellmeister Carl Heinrich Graun. He was also a prolific composer whose works were received with admiration by his contemporaries. The four cantatas show elements of the early classical and sensitive styles; the cantata choruses are often homophonic and songlike, polyphonic sections rather rare. All the cantatas prove to be individually conceived works that testify to the composer's mastery. Beautiful sounding arias, the naturalness of their expression and the dramatic compression in the individual movements are still convincing today. At the same time, the cantatas bear witness to the high quality of Protestant church music in the period after Johann Sebastian Bach and illustrate the high value of music within the liturgy. Today they can be a welcome addition to the repertoire for the Christmas season. © CPO
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Willkommen, du sehnlich erbetener Tag (Ernst Wilhelm Wolf)
Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Georg Poplutz, Artist, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Matthias Vieweg, Artist, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Seid böse, ihr Völker (Ernst Wilhelm Wolf)
Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Georg Poplutz, Artist, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Matthias Vieweg, Artist, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Matthias Vieweg, Artist, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Auf, jauchzet, ihr Christen (Ernst Wilhelm Wolf)
Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Georg Poplutz, Artist, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Matthias Vieweg, Artist, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Willkommen, du schönster der Tage (Ernst Wilhelm Wolf)
Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Elvira Bill, Artist, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer - Andrey Akhmetov, Artist, MainArtist
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Orchestra, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer - Beate Mordal, Artist, MainArtist
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Elvira Bill, Artist, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer - Andrey Akhmetov, Artist, MainArtist
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer - Beate Mordal, Artist, MainArtist
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer - Beate Mordal, Artist, MainArtist
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer - Beate Mordal, Artist, MainArtist
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer - Beate Mordal, Artist, MainArtist
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer - Beate Mordal, Artist, MainArtist
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer - Beate Mordal, Artist, MainArtist
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Matthias Vieweg, Artist, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Ensemble, MainArtist - Georg Poplutz, Artist, MainArtist - Elvira Bill, Artist, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer - Beate Mordal, Artist, MainArtist - Andrey Akhmetov, Artist, MainArtist
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Michael Alexander Willens, Conductor, MainArtist - Kolner Akademie, Choir, MainArtist - Georg Poplutz, Artist, MainArtist - Elvira Bill, Artist, MainArtist - Matthias Vieweg, Artist, MainArtist - Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Composer - Beate Mordal, Artist, MainArtist - Andrey Akhmetov, Artist, MainArtist
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Album review
In the 18th century, "well-populated" church music was a self-evident tradition throughout central Germany: church services were embellished along the ecclesiastical year with cantatas appropriate to the liturgy for the glory of God, but also for the joy and "spiritual edification" of the visitors. From this treasure of hitherto unknown Christmas music, four cantatas by Ernst Wilhelm Wolf are presented for the first time on this recording. Wolf worked as court kapellmeister in Weimar, and the fact that Goethe rejected him as "self-indulgent" should not prevent us from admiring him as a very important composer of the transition.
Musically, Wolf was greatly influenced by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in the sensitive style and by the works of the Berlin Kapellmeister Carl Heinrich Graun. He was also a prolific composer whose works were received with admiration by his contemporaries. The four cantatas show elements of the early classical and sensitive styles; the cantata choruses are often homophonic and songlike, polyphonic sections rather rare. All the cantatas prove to be individually conceived works that testify to the composer's mastery. Beautiful sounding arias, the naturalness of their expression and the dramatic compression in the individual movements are still convincing today. At the same time, the cantatas bear witness to the high quality of Protestant church music in the period after Johann Sebastian Bach and illustrate the high value of music within the liturgy. Today they can be a welcome addition to the repertoire for the Christmas season. © CPO
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 26 track(s)
- Total length: 01:15:29
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Matthias Vieweg
- Composer: Ernst Wilhelm Wolf
- Label: CPO
- Genre: Classical
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