Schurmann / Weser-renaissance Bremen / Cordes - Cantatas - Music CD

The fifth concert in our series of "Music from Wolfenbttel Castle" features performances and recordings of multifaceted cantatas by Georg Caspar Schrmann. Like no other musician before him, Schrmann exercised a comprehensive influence on the Wolfenbttel court music world during his more than fifty years of service there. During these decades he produced an impressively extensive and richly varied oeuvre: almost thirty operas, numerous table compositions, a Passion, and various church cantatas for large ensembles are documented. In his Christmas cantata "Siehe, eine Jungfrau ist schwanger" we experience Schrmann as a composer of gripping ensemble compositions with finely chiseled fugue subjects. For many years the anonymous New Year's cantata "Nimm das Opfer unsrer Hertzen" was also ascribed to Schrmann. Although Georg sterreich is now assumed to have been it's composer, the opening aria in particular with it's highly effective postponement of the resolution of dissonances displays a clear stylistic closeness to Schrmann's opera arias from this time.