Joel Frederiksen and Thomas E. Bauer speak about bass voices, the special music composed for them in the Baroque and the unique dramatic power of the bass singer. In this program of early Baroque music from Germany, the complete range and possibilities of the bass voice are exploited to their fullest.
At that time, Italian music was enticing many composers to cross the Alps, including Heinrich Schütz, who went to Venice twice. He studied there with Giovanni Gabrieli and sampled the pioneering work of Claudio Monteverdi. Like Franz Tunder, Christoph Bernhard and Johann Caspar Kerll. Schütz combined the Italians’ dramatic panache with the spiritual depth and contrapuntal complexity of the German Baroque. Ensemble Phoenix Munich has chosen the most beautiful solos, duets and trios for this spirited programm: some are melodic and dancing, others are patient narratives, but all are magnificently expressive. Through the pages of the score, the bass reveals itself as so much more than a harmonic foundation: its deep, bronze register represents majesty, wisdom and power, in good times and bad.
Performance Excerpts: Erlöserkirche (Church of Our Savior), Munich, Germany on February 24, 2024
Performers:
Thomas E. Bauer: Bass
Harry van der Kamp: Bass
Joel Frederiksen: Bass, Archlute & Conductor
Félix Verry: violin
Aleksandra Brzóskowska: violin
Axel Wolf: Theorbo
Domen Marinčič: viola da gamba, violone
Michael Eberth: organ, harpsichord
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