Michael Schneider, La Stagione Frankfurt - Georg Philipp Telemann: Ich hoffete aufs Licht - Funeral Music for Emperor Karl VII (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 263 Mb | Total time: 62:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 603-2 | Recorded: 2010
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 263 Mb | Total time: 62:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 603-2 | Recorded: 2010
Telemann wrote funeral compositions for many persons. His setting of the Funeral Music for Emperor Charles VII – transmitted solely in the form of a sketch in the composer’s own hand with numerous corrections and writing simplifications and in part without a text – already points to typical features of his late vocal work: a treatment of the vocal parts that is melodically sometimes austere, mostly coloratura-poor, and systematic in its employment of verbal meter, a melodic design sharpened by succinct rhythms and suspensions, and a harmonic structure enriched by pointedly set interdominants. This funerary music is set in the context of the state compositions ordered by the Hamburg city council for the elections, coronations, weddings, and deaths of Holy Roman Emperors of the German Nation.