Andreas Scholl, Morphing Chamber Orchestra, Sarah Traubel
AP280 - 1CD - 68' - Mar 31, 2023
This album explores Psalm 130, De profundis, through three centuries of music. From Bach to Schönberg, Sarah Traubel and Andreas Scholl reveal the richness of this biblical text, from baroque to post-romantic and expressionist tones.
"Psalm 130, De Profundis, expressing human distress and the hope for divine mercy, is one of the best-known and most frequently quoted of biblical texts, and the starting point for numerous compositions, notably by J. S. Bach, who used this text as a basis for several works: his cantata BWV 131, the organ prelude BWV 745, the chorale prelude BWV 687, and his two extant Passions. His compositions were later echoed in the poems by Baudelaire, Stefan George and Georg Trakl that were set by Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg (Lyric Suite and String Quartet no. 2, respectively).
Sarah Traubel is joined by Andreas Scholl in an exploration of this theme through three centuries of music, from Baroque to the Expressionist and post-Romantic periods, thus sharing with us its universal beauty."
ALBAN BERG (1885-1935)
1. Largo desolato “Zu dir, du einzig teure”
(Lyric Suite for string quartet and soprano, 1926)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
2. Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu Dir BWV 687 (1739)*
3. St. John Passion BWV 245 (1724)
Aria no.35: “Zerfließe, mein Herze”
4. St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 (c1736)
Aria no.49: “Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben”
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG (1874-1951)
5. Entrückung “Ich fühle Luft von anderem Planeten”
(String Quartet no.2 in F sharp minor, op.10, 1907-8)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
6. Organ Sonata no.4 in E minor BWV 528 (c1730): II. Andante*
7. Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut BWV 113 (1724):
“Erbarm dich mein in solcher Last”
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
8. Litanei “Tief ist die trauer, die mich umdüstert”
(String Quartet no.2 in F sharp minor, op.10)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
9. St. Matthew Passion BWV 244
Aria no.8: “Blute nur, du liebes Herz!”
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (1933-2020)
10. Ciaccona, in memoriam Giovanni Paolo II (2005)*
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
11. Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen ‘Himmelfahrtsoratorium’ BWV 11 (1735)
Aria no.4: “Ach bleibe doch, mein liebstes Leben”
12. Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott BWV 101 (1724)
Aria no.6: “Gedenk an Jesu bittern Tod”
*arr. by Tomasz Wabnic
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