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Gottfried August Homilius Warum toben die Heiden. Kantaten

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Gottfried August Homilius left an extensive oeuvre. Numerous motets, church cantatas, and oratorios, among others, have been preserved. In their day the compositions of ­Homilius were very popular and were extraordi­narily well circulated. On the occasion of his 300th anniversary Carus is releasing several CDs with works by “the best church composer” (J. F. Reichardt) of his time. The Handel Company and the Handel’s Company Choir under Rainer Johannes Homburg present five cantatas for Advent, New Year and Epiphany.
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  • Coro. Warum toben die Heiden
  • Recitativo. Des Höchsten Rat besteht
  • Aria. Ruhet sicher
  • Corale. Zuletzt müsst ihr doch haben recht
  • Coro. Frohlocke, Zion
  • Recitativo. Hinweg, ihr zweifelnden Gedanken
  • Corale. Ei mein Perle, du werte Kron
  • Recitativo. Zwar kann die Welt
  • Aria. Du bist mein Reichtum
  • Corale. Wend von mir nicht dein Angesicht
  • Aria. In der Zeit meiner Not
  • Coro. Getrost mein frommer Christ
  • Recitativo. Vielleicht verbirgt der Herr vor mir
  • Aria. Mein Herz ist fröhlich
  • Coro. Kommt, frohe Völker
  • Duetto. Herr, ewig werd ich danken müssen
  • Coro. Der Herr ist meine Stärke
  • Recitativo. Steig, Allgewaltiger
  • Aria. Noch sollen meine Wetter schweigen
  • Recitativo. Nein, sei getrost
  • Coro. Gerecht und wahrhaftig
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  • Gottfried August Homilius, the son of a pastor, was born in Rosenthal (Saxony) on 2 February 1714. In May 1735 he enrolled as a law student at Leipzig University. Likewise, it was probably at this time that Homilius was a pupil of Johann Sebastian Bach; the latter fact had been attested to by Johann Adam Hiller. Apart from Bach, Homilius also had contact with Johann Schneider, a Bach pupil and organist at the Nicolaikirche, for whom he also substituted. After unsuccesfully applying for a post as organist in Bautzen, Homilius was appointed organist at the Dresden Frauenkirche in 1742. In 1755 Homilius succeeded Theodor Christlieb Reinhold as Kreuzkantor and music director of the three main churches in Dresden, a position that he occupied until his death on 2 June 1785. Personal details
  • Handel’s Company was founded in 1999 by Rainer Johannes Homburg and Harry Hoffmann. In 2011 the orchestra was joined by a choir: Handel’s Company Choir. The ensembles aim to present exemplary performances of early music works, especially sacred choral and orchestral music. This frequently includes newly-rediscovered works, principally from the 18th century. One natural precondition of their approach is to use instruments from the period in question, and to intensively research the appropriate performance conventions. Their creative work is characterized by successful and outstanding CD recordings: their Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer recording received an ECHO-Klassik award in 2008. Handel’s Company Choir and its partner orchestra Handel’s Company were reorganized following their artistic director Rainer Johannes Homburg’s move to Stuttgart and have been based in there since 2011. In its current line-up, the choir comprises voice teachers and advanced singers from the male voice choir of the Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben boys’ choir, augmented by professional choral singers. Personal details
  • Handel’s Company was founded in 1999 by Rainer Johannes Homburg and Harry Hoffmann. In 2011 the orchestra was joined by a choir: Handel’s Company Choir. The ensembles aim to present exemplary performances of early music works, especially sacred choral and orchestral music. This frequently includes newly-rediscovered works, principally from the 18th century. One natural precondition of their approach is to use instruments from the period in question, and to intensively research the appropriate performance conventions. Their creative work is characterized by successful and outstanding CD recordings: their Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer recording received an ECHO-Klassik award in 2008. Handel’s Company Choir and its partner orchestra Handel’s Company were reorganized following their artistic director Rainer Johannes Homburg’s move to Stuttgart and have been based in there since 2011. In its current line-up, the choir comprises voice teachers and advanced singers from the male voice choir of the Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben boys’ choir, augmented by professional choral singers. Personal details
  • Rainer Johannes Homburg studied church music, conducting, organ and musicology in Cologne and Detmold. He specializes in researching early music. His artistic work also includes concert tours, college teaching and recording for radio and television. For almost twenty years he was regional music director in Lippe, North Rhine-Westphalia, and director of church music at St. Marien in Lemgo. In April 2010 he became artistic director of the Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben. Personal details
  • French soprano Marie-Pierre Roy began her musical studies at the Conservatoire in Dijon, where she gained a diploma in violin and singing. She continued her training in Stuttgart with Prof. Francisco Araiza, taking courses in singing, music theatre and education, with violin as a second instrument, graduating in 2012. Since then she has studied at the Stuttgart Opera School with Bernhard Gärtner. She has also attended various master classes. Marie-Pierre Roy has a wealth of choral experience, singing in both a cappella ensembles as well as oratorio choruses and opera. She has chosen to embark on a solo career, and her flexible voice is well suited to this, enabling her to sing repertoire from all periods and genres. As well as song recitals and premieres of contemporary works, she also performs as a soloist in oratorio, and is increasingly committed to the operatic stage. Personal details
  • Henriette Gödde first studied music education at the Berlin University of the Arts before embarking on vocal studies in 2010 with Prof. Christiane Junghanns at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. While still a student she sang in concerts at the Dresden Music Festival (Mozart’s Coronation Mass), and performed works including Frank Martin’s In terra pax and Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder in the version by H.?W. Henze. At the beginning of 2013 she successfully completed her degree and since March 2013 has been a master class student. She is increasingly making a name for herself in concert repertoire. She works with leading conductors such as Ludwig Güttler, Ekkehard Klemm, Roderich Kreile, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Helmut Rilling, Jörg Peter Weigle, and Zolt Nagy. Henriette Gödde has won several prizes, most recently 1st Prize at the “concorso musica sacra” in Rome. Personal details
  • Tenor Knut Schoch studied at the Hamburg Conservatory, and is continuing his vocal studies. An accomplished singer specializing in historically-informed performance practice, Schoch is constantly expanding his repertoire which ranges from the Baroque to the 20th century, and is equally at home in music from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. His broad repertoire ranges from medieval works to premieres of contemporary music and encompasses oratorio to lieder singing, chamber music to Baroque and Classical opera. Tours and guest performances have taken him throughout Europe, to Asia, America and Australia. He has taken part in numerous radio, television and CD productions. Schoch teaches at the Hamburg Conservatory and the University of the Arts Bremen. He has been professor at the Hamburg Conservatory and a visiting lecturer at universities in Japan and Australia. Personal details
  • Markus Köhler, born in Leipzig, was a member of St Thomas’s Choir and studied singing at the Dresden Musikhochschule and the University of the Arts Berlin. He attended courses with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Aribert Reimann, and has been a prizewinner in various competitions. As well as stage engagements, he has made his name especially as a concert singer and lieder interpreter. Performances in Germany and abroad in many renowned concert halls, with well-known conductors, choruses and orchestras, and at festivals including the Berlin Festival, Weimar Arts Festival, Gustav Mahler Music Weeks in Toblach, and the Dresden Music Festival, on radio and television for RIAS, SFB, NDR, WDR, MDR and Deutschlandradio, and CD recordings with classical and contemporary compositions reflect his wide-ranging artistic activities. Markus Köhler is Professor of Singing at the Musikhochschule in Detmold. Personal details

Reviews

… another fine addition to the Homilius discography.
Jonathan Woolf, www.musicweb-international.com, 19.03.2015

Der Chor besitzt in den homophonen Vokalblöcken genügend Klangfülle und weiß dem melodischen Gestus die rechte Rundung zu verleihen. Das Orchester zeigt sich sehr agil und wendig. Lebhaft und konturenscharf im Instrumentalen wie im Vokalen bekommt man auch den eröffnenden Chorsatz der Adventskantate zu hören, mitunter aufgefächert in Vokalsoli und chorische Antwort, dynamisch dabei vielgliedrig.
abgestuft und in ein lebendiges musikalisches Schwingen gebracht.
Tobias Bopp, magazin.klassik.kom, 05.03.2015
 

… sparkles with enthusiasm and glorious late high baroque gorgeousness …
ionarts.blogspot.com, best recordings of 2014, 28. Dezember 2014

Die Ausführenden … sind stilistisch versiert, singen und musizieren sauber und animiert; … Beispiele dafür, dass nicht nur die ganz bekannten Ensembles und Namen für Qualität bürgen!
Gustav Danzinger, Chor aktuell, Juni 2014

The disc devoted exclusively to his cantatas is very fine indeed, with a handful of impressive and nicely contrasted selections performed with great verve and style…
Fabrice Fitch, Gramophone, Juni 2014

…hier wird lebendig, transparent und vor allem textnah musiziert.
Guy Engels, pizzicato.lu, 20. Mai 2014

…eine so homogene wie stilkundige Sängergruppe…
Reinhard Kriechbaum, Concerto, Mai/Juni 2014

Insgesamt überzeugt […] der selbstbewusste Interpretationsansatz, der Homilius' Musik ein nicht zu kleines Format verleiht und wohl im Satztechnischen als auch im Atmosphärischen immer das Besondere aufspürt. Fortsetzung erwünscht!
Matthias Hengelbrock, Musik & Kirche, März/April 2014 (Nr. 2)

Der Handel's Company Choir setzt das ästhetische Konzept des Pfarrerssohnes gemeinsam mit den Solisten und der Handel's Company sehr schön um: Ob die Heiden toben oder Zion frohlocket, hier herrscht nicht nur religiöser Ernst, sondern vor allem eine große Freude am Klang und eine beeindruckende Power.
Klemens Hippel, concerti.de, Februar 2014

… entdeckenswert.
Südwestpresse, 1. Februar 2014

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