Buxtehude: O fröliche Stunden

Dietrich Buxtehude (Composer), Dietrich Becker (Composer), Ensemble la Fenice (Performer), La Fenice (Performer), Jean-Marc Aymes (Performer), Hans-Jorg Mammel (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Ensemble la Fenice, La Fenice, Jean-Marc Aymes, Hans-Jorg Mammel
• Composer: Dietrich Buxtehude, Dietrich Becker
• Audio CD (November 13, 2007)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Alpha Productions
• ASIN: B000RGUQ3S
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #472,250 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lobe den Herrn meine Seele, for tenor, 3 violins, 2 violas, violone & continuo, BuxWV 71

2. Ich sprach in meinem Herzen, for soprano, 3 violins, bassoon & continuo, BuxWV 49

3. Quaemadmodum desiderat cervus, for tenor, 2 violins & continuo, BuxWV 92

4. Canzon for 4 (or 5) parts in C major

5. Herr, nun lässt du deinen Diener, for tenor, 2 violins & continuo, BuxWV 37

6. Singet dem Herrn ein Neues Lied, for soprano, violin & continuo, BuxWV 98

7. Toccata for keyboard in G major, BuxWV 164

8. O fröhliche Stunden, O fröhliche Zeit, for soprano, 2 violins, violone & continuo, BuxWV 84

9. Fugue for keyboard in G major, BuxWV 175

10. Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab', for soprano, 2 violins & continuo, BuxWV 38

Editorial Reviews

While best known as a master of the organ and of the polyphonic cantata, the great Buxtehude (1637-1707) also left a number of Spiritual Concerts for soloists and instrumental ensemble.

For this recital, tenor Hans-Jörg Mammel has selected works from this repertoire, including amazing vocal chaconnes that bear the undisputed signature of the great composer the young Bach admired. Mammel, a native of Germany, is an accomplished singer of Early Music and Lieder.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Happy Hours are here again!, February 5, 2008

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This review is from: Buxtehude: O fröliche Stunden (Audio CD)

I ordered this CD in Europe, and it has followed me all the way to Minnesota. I can hardly tell you how glad I am that it survived the trip!

Han-Joerg Mammel is a fine robust Tenorlied singer, with excellent pitch and dynamics control, but he's not really the raison d'etre for this performance. La Fenice, the instrumental ensemble, totally steals the show. Jean Tubery, the leader of La Fenice, is one of three god-like cornettists in the modern world, the other two being Bruce Dickey and Doron Sherwin of Concerto Palatino. Tubery's cornetto sounds remarkably different from Dickey's and Sherwin's - softer, freer, more vocal, more French if you will, but equally virtuosic. I stand in awe of all three.

Buxtehude's fame as an organist has disposed many listeners to imagine him as a sturdy Protestant, skillful but too earnest for "happy hours".
(O froeliche Stunden = Oh happy hours). The Leider and canzone on this CD, with their lush, almost lascivious instrumental counterpoint, should dispel that impression forever.

Tubery is to the cornetto as Fabio Biondi is to the violin. How's that for an inducement? Now if we could arrange a concert with the two of them facing off across the stage...