Christoph Spering - Bach:Cantata Wie Schon Leuchtet Der Morgenstern - Import 3 CD

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Christoph Spering

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A collection of chorale cantatas by Christoph Spring, one of the greats of the German classical music world. Christoph Spring is one of the leading figures in the world of German classical music and has been actively performing and recording with Das Neue Orkestadter and Kohl's Musiks Kln. He has recorded Bach's cantatas for DHM, beginning with Cantata No. 80, "Our God is a Firm Fortress," followed by "Lutheran Cantatas," "Cantatas to the Glory of God," "Cantatas in Praise of God," and "Cantatas of the Second Leipzig Period," and has been "in pursuit of interpretation as theology and a new interpretation to the intense words and music," "homogeneous and harmonious persuasiveness in the interaction between choir and orchestra without emphasis on the large scale, balanced tempi, and skillful solistic accents expressed through subtlety," and a historically grounded approach to Bach's Bach, who moved to Leipzig in 1723, composed 40 pieces in a special chorale cantata form based on chorale lyrics between Trinity Sunday in 1724 and Easter in 1725.The year 1724 was exactly 200 years after the year 1524, which is recognized as the "year of the establishment of hymns," when Martin Luther, the religious reformer, in collaboration with many musicians, published several hymnbooks for congregational singing. Nine of these hymns are included here. The lyrics are used verbatim only in the first verse for the first song and the final verse for the finale; the middle verses have been rewritten for recitative and aria. The last piece written during Bach's compositional period was "The Bright and Beautiful Dawn," BWV.1, which opens with a beautiful and colorful opening chorus by two horns, famous for its beautiful and colorful opening. The cascading joyous movement of the strings in "I am Joyful in Thee," BWV.133, and the musically striking contrasts that reflect the lyrics in "Oh, My Beloved Christ Child, Be Majestic," BWV.114, where in the first chorus the oboe and first violin play a confident theme from the choral melody, while in the second chorus the oboe and first violin play the theme from the chorus' melody, and the oboe and first violin play the theme from the chorus' melody, while in the third chorus the oboe and first violin play the theme from the chorus' melody. In the first chorus, the oboe and first violin play a confident theme from the chorus melody, while the soprano aria in the fourth piece plays an anxious theme with the bass. The chorales at the end of each piece are simple, but they express a confident faith in God. Sony Music