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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach The Israelites in the Wilderness

Oratorio BR-CPEB D 1 (Wq 238), 1769

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A High Point in the CPE Bach Anniversary Year: Frieder Bernius and the Kammerchor Stuttgart are marking the composer’s 300th anniversary with a recording of the oratorio “Die Israeliten in der Wüste” (The Israelites in the Wilderness). In 1768, right at the beginning of his long period as musical director of the Hamburg principal churches, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach composed this masterpiece. The new, sensitive musical language he used delighted contemporaries and colleagues alike. This recording contributes a fitting concluding note to the anniversary year.
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  • Erster Teil. Chor der Israeliten: Die Zunge klebt am dürren Gaum
  • Rezitativ Erste Israelitin: Ist dieses Abrams Gott?
  • Arie Erste Israelitin: Will er, dass sein Volk verderbe?
  • Accompagnement Aaron: Verehrt des Ew'gen Willen
  • Arie Aaron: Bis hieher hat er euch gebracht
  • Rezitativ Zweite Israelitin: Warum verließen wir Ägyptens blühend Land
  • Arie Zweite Israelitin: O, bringet uns zu jenen Mauren
  • Rezitativ Aaron: Für euch fleht Moses stets um neue Huld
  • Symphonie
  • Rezitativ Moses: Welch ein Geschrei tönt in mein Ohr?
  • Chor der Israeliten: Du bist der Ursprung unsrer Not
  • Rezitativ Moses: Undankbar Volk, hast du die Werke
  • Duett Erste & Zweite Israelitin: Umsonst sind unsre Zähren
  • Accompagnement Moses/Chor der Israeliten: Gott, meiner Väter Gott
  • Arie Moses: Gott, sieh dein Volk im Staube liegen!
  • Chor der Israeliten: O Wunder! Gott hat uns erhört!
  • Zweiter Teil. Rezitativ Moses: Verdienet habt ihr ihn
  • Arie Moses/Erste Israelitin: Gott Israels, empfange im jauchzenden Gesange
  • Tutti Chor/Zweite Israelitin: Gott Israels, empfange der Herzen heißen Dank!
  • Rezitativ Erste Israelitin: Wie nah war uns der Tod!
  • Arie Erste Israelitin: Vor des Mittags heißen Strahlen
  • Accompagnement Moses: O Freunde, Kinder, mein Gebet
  • Rezitativ Zweite Israelitin: Beneidenswert, die ihren Sohn ihn nennt!
  • Arie Zweite Israelitin: O selig, wem der Herr gewähret
  • Rezitativ Moses: Hofft auf den Ew’gen
  • Chor: Verheißner Gottes
  • Choral: Was der alten Väter Schar
  • Accompagnement Tenor: O Heil der Welt
  • Chor: Lass dein Wort, das uns erschallt
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  • Erster Teil

    1. Chor der Israeliten Die Zunge klebt am dürren Gaum,
    wir atmen kaum.
    Rings um uns her ist Grab.
    Gott, du erhörst des Jammers Klage nicht,
    Gott, du kehrst dein Antlitz von uns ab.

    2. Rezitativ Erste Israelitin Ist dieses Abrams Gott?
    Der Gott, der bei sich selbst geschworen,
    das Volk, das er sich auserkoren,
    nie zu vergessen, zu verlassen?
    Wir schmachten, wir erblassen.
    Wir haben keinen Trank
    als diese Tränen, die wir weinen.
    Der Herr hat Lust an unserm Untergang,
    und er gedenkt nicht mehr der Seinen.

    3. Arie Erste Israelitin Will er, dass sein Volk verderbe?
    Sind wir länger nicht sein Erbe?

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  • Text from the CD Carus 83.292

    Wolfram Enßlin
    Translation: David Kosviner

    With the oratorio Die Israeliten in der Wüste, which was premiered on 1 November 1769, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach presented a sacred vocal work accompanied by orchestra that was completely his own to the Hamburg audience for the first time. The work was commissioned for the consecration of the newly-built Lazarett-Kirche (hospital church) that belonged to the “Pesthof” area which had been established outside the Hamburg city walls in 1606.

    One and a half years earlier, on Easter Sunday 1768, Bach had been ceremoniously inaugurated as the successor of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, who had died the previous year, as the Kantor of the Johanneum school and music director of Hamburg’s five principal churches. The Hamburg music director’s duties included the organization

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  • Booklet-Text der CD Carus 83.292

    Wolfram Enßlin

    Mit dem am 1. November 1769 uraufgeführten Oratorium Die Israeliten in der Wüste präsentierte Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach erstmals dem Hamburger Publikum ein vollständig eigenes orchesterbegleitetes geistliches Vokalwerk. Es war eine Auftragskomposition zur Einweihung der neu errichteten Lazarett-Kirche, die zu dem 1606 gegründeten, außerhalb der Hamburger Stadtmauern gelegenen Pesthof gehörte.

    Eineinhalb Jahre zuvor, am Ostersonntag 1768, war C. P. E. Bach feierlich als Nachfolger seines im Jahr zuvor verstorbenen Patenonkels Georg Philipp Telemann in das Amt des Kantor des Johanneum und Musikdirektor der fünf Hamburger Hauptkirchen eingeführt worden. Zu den Aufgaben eines Hamburger Musikdirektors gehörten die Organisation und Durchführung der regulären Kirchenmusik in den fünf Hauptkirchen

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Contents

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) was an extremely prolific composer who enjoyed a high reputation during his lifetime with the result that his music became known far and wide. The early works were influenced by the Berlin School. In his later works, however, this composer developed a thoroughly individual style, independent of contemporary fashions, which is to be found especially in the sacred vocal works written during his years as Director of Music in Hamburg (1768–1788). Personal details
  • The Kammerchor Stuttgart is regarded as one of the best ensembles of its kind. Over its fifty-year existence, Frieder Bernius has developed the choir into an exceptional ensemble acclaimed by audiences and press alike. This has led to invitations for the choir to perform at all the important European festivals. In Germany the chamber choir performs at festivals and in concert halls in repertoire ranging from the 17th to the 21st century. Frieder Bernius and his ensemble have received numerous accolades for their contribution to new music. The Kammerchor Stuttgart has made over 80 CDs and LPs, numerous of which have been awarded international recording prizes (including the Edison award, Diapason d’or, Gramophone Choice, Classical Internet Award, International Classical Music Award, and German Record Critics’ Award prizes). The International Federation for Choral Music has invited the ensemble to sing at the 1st, 4th and 10th World Symposia on Choral Music in Vienna, Sydney and Seoul. Regular tours of North America and Asia since 1988 and a South America tour reflect the Kammerchor Stuttgart’s international reputation. Since 1984 the top ensemble has also been invited to Israel biennially. Personal details
  • The Barockorchester Stuttgart, which was founded by Bernius in 1985, specializes in 18th century music. The musicians are among the leading representatives of historical performance practice and perform exclusively on original instruments. The ensemble dedicates itself to a large extent to the revival of 18th century operas. It has performed at numerous international festivals, among others in Rome, Dresden and Göttingen. Personal details
  • Frieder Bernius’s work has earned great worldwide recognition. He is in demand internationally as a conductor and as a teacher. His principal artistic collaborators are the ensembles he founded himself, the Kammerchor Stuttgart, the Barockorchester Stuttgart, the Hofkapelle Stuttgart and the Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart. As a guest conductor, he has collaborated repeatedly with, for example, the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and the Streicherakademie Bozen. Great stylistic versatility is Frieder Bernius’s hallmark. Whether he conducts vocal works by Monteverdi, Bach, Händel, Mozart, Beethoven, Fauré and Ligeti, stage music by Mendelssohn or symphonies by Haydn, Burgmüller and Schubert, his work always aims for a sound that is at once unmistakably personal and at the same time oriented towards the original period sound ideal. He devotes himself equally to the rediscovery of 18th century operas and to first performances of contemporary compositions. He is particularly interested in the musical history of southwestern Germany. Carus-Verlag has awarded Frieder Bernius a Golden CD for his complete recording of the sacred music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The award was presented to him during the German Choir Festival in Stuttgart 2016. The sale of over 250,000 recordings, which has been acclaimed with a number of awards, has made a not insignificant contribution to what today is the obvious presence of Mendelssohn's complete œuvre in the concert repertoire. Personal details
  • Joanne Lunn, soprano, studied at the Royal College of Music in London, where she won the renowned Tagore Gold Medal. She regularly concertizes as a soloist with all the renowned early music ensembles. She gave her opera debut at the English National Opera in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and sang the role of Helena in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Venice, as well as singing in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo in Paris and Beijing. In the field of oratorio, Joanne Lunn has worked together with conductors such as Bernius, Minkowski, Norrington and Suzuki. Personal details
  • The mezzosoprano Judith Gauthier studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. She has sung as a soloist in, among others, Bach’s "St. John’s Passion", Brahm’s "Ein deutsches Requiem", as well as in Händel’s "La Resurrezione". She is not only an internationally renowned interpreter of early music, but also a seasoned performer of music of the 20th and 21st centuries. As an opera singer she has performed the roles of Oberto in Händel’s "Alcina" (Santiago de Chile), Bellezza in "Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" (Stuttgart) and Cendrillon in Massenet’s opera of the same name (Paris und Vienna.) She has been awarded numerous prizes. Personal details
  • The tenor Samuel Boden studied at Trinity College of Music in London with John Wakefield and graduated with distinction in 2006. His repertoire is very broad and includes operas and oratorios ranging from the Baroque to the modern period. His concert repertoire includes, among others, works by Bach, Mozart, Britten and Charpentier. CD recordings of Monteverdi's "Vespers 1610" with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, cantatas by Pachelbel und Bach, as well as Bach's "B Minor Mass" document his predilection for Baroque music. Personal details
  • Tobias Berndt began his musical education in the Dresden Kreuzchor. He studied with Christian Polster in Leipzig and continued his training with Rudolf Piernay in Mannheim. He also studied with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Thomas Quasthoff. He was a laureate in numerous renowned singing competitions, winning – among others – the International Das Lied Competition in Berlin, the International Brahms Competition and the Cantilena Singing Competition. Tobias Berndt has also established himself abroad as an opera and concert singer. He has collaborated with conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Helmuth Rilling, Frieder Bernius, Teodor Currentzis, Marcus Creed, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Andrea Marcon, Marek Janowski and Sir Roger Norrington and has performed at the Berliner Philharmonie, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and at Lincoln Center in New York. He has also performed at important festivals such as the Prague Spring, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Händel Festivals in Göttingen und Halle, the Bachfest Leipzig, the Oregon Bach Festival and the International Music Festival in Peking. An extensive discography attests to his versatile artistic activities. Personal details

Reviews

Frieder Bernius leads this classy, well-balanced, and earnest performance, which shows the performers and the piece to excellent advantage.
Joanne Sydney Lessner, operanews.com, Juni 2015

Frieder Bernius est sans doute un des chefs les mieux aptes aujourd’hui à transcender ces élans choraux, d’une beauté chatoyante grâce à sa formation stuttgartoise...
Jean-Luc Macia, Diapason, März 2015

Kammerchor und Barockorchester Stuttgart unter der Leitung von Frieder Bernius bringen das Oratorium mit hoher Antizipation und luzider Transparenz zur Geltung. Auf hohem Niveau auch die Gesangssolisten.
Mannheimer Morgen, 26. Februar 2015

Die vielfältig abgestuften Gefühlsregungen spüren Frieder Bernius und seine Stuttgarter feinfühlig auf.
concerti, Februar 2015

A superb recording, perfectly balanced, and well suited for the discovery of this neglected music.
pizzicato.lu Die Israeliten in der Wüste, 19. Januar 2015

Deux excellents CD, deux chaleureuses recommandations [...].
(Zwei exzellente CDs, zwei warme Empfehlungen...)
Christophe Huss, ledevoir.com, 9. Januar 2015

[…] fãlicitons les artistes du Kammerchor Stuttgart pour leur fin travail de nuance, la probante gravitã qui domine l’exãcution […]
(Wir gratulieren den Künstlers des Kammerchors Stuttgart zur scharfsinnigen Schattierung und zur Überzeugenden Ernsthaftigkeit, die diese Einspielung prägen.)
www.anaclase.com, Januar 2014

[…] diese CD gehört zum Besten, was einem anlässlich von Bachs 300. Geburtstag zu Ohren kommen kann.
Andreas Waczkat, Concerto, Januar/Februar 2015

Die Gesamtleistung Überzeugt durch stilistisches Feingefühl für den differenzierten musikalischen Ausdruck C. P. E. Bachs, aufmerksame Begleitung des Orchesters, insbesondere in den Arien, und durch ein homogenes Klangbild des Chors, der zusammen mit der ausdrucksstarken Interpretation der vier Solisten für einen hohen klanglichen Wiedererkennungswert der Einspielung sorgt.
Marion Beyer, klassik.com, 21. Januar 2015

[…] sehr empfehlenswert[.]
Jan Ritterstaedt, WDR3 TonArt, 25. November 2014

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