Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, David Temple – Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn: Choral Works (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, David Temple – Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn: Choral Works (2024)
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David Temple conducts the Crouch End Festival Chorus and London Mozart Players with a formidable group of soloists on this album celebrating the works of the siblings Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel (nee Mendelssohn). Fanny’s cantata Hiob, based on the Book of Job, is the second of three cantatas composed between February and November 1831, although it remained unpublished until 1992. Later in her short career, encouraged by her brother and her friend Robert von Keudell, Fanny did begin to publish her works. The Gartenlieder, Op. 3 for unaccompanied choir were composed in 1846, and inspired by the gardens and summerhouse at the family’s Leipzigerstrase residence, in Berlin, where she held her choir rehearsals. Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht is a secular cantata, a setting of the poem by Goethe, originally performed in 1831. Mendelssohn revised the work extensively in 1843, and it is this later version that is performed here. His Christmas cantata Vom Himmel hoch, based on a Lutheran chorale, was completed in 1831.

Tracklist:
1-01. Julia Doyle – Vom Himmel hoch, MWV A22: I. Coro “Vom Himmel hoch” (05:11)
1-02. Julia Doyle – Vom Himmel hoch, MWV A22: II. Aria “Es ist der Her Christ, unser Gott” (02:11)
1-03. Julia Doyle – Vom Himmel hoch, MWV A22: III. Choral “Er bringt euch alle Seligkeit” (00:38)
1-04. Julia Doyle – Vom Himmel hoch, MWV A22: IV. Aria “Sei willekomm, du elder Gast” (03:25)
1-05. Julia Doyle – Vom Himmel hoch, MWV A22: V. Arioso “Das also hat gefallen dir” (00:54)
1-06. Julia Doyle – Vom Himmel hoch, MWV A22: VI. Schlußchor “Lob, Ehr sei Gott im höchsten Thron” (01:44)
1-07. Crouch End Festival Chorus – Hiob, H-U 258: I. Chor “Was ist ein Mensch, daß du ihn groß achtest” (04:22)
1-08. Crouch End Festival Chorus – Hiob, H-U 258: II. Arioso “Warum verbirgest du dein Antlitz?” (03:01)
1-09. Crouch End Festival Chorus – Hiob, H-U 258: III. Chor “Leben und Wohltat hast du an mir getan” (04:12)
1-10. Crouch End Festival Chorus – Gartenlieder, Op.3: I. Hörst du nicht die Bäume rauchen, H-U 421 (02:14)
1-11. Crouch End Festival Chorus – Gartenlieder, Op.3: II. Schöne Fremde, H-U 437 (02:30)
1-12. Crouch End Festival Chorus – Gartenlieder, Op.3: III. Im Herbste III, H-U 430 (01:49)
1-13. Crouch End Festival Chorus – Gartenlieder, Op.3: IV. Morgengruß I, H-U 432 (02:15)
1-14. Crouch End Festival Chorus – Gartenlieder, Op.3: V. Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald, H-U 422 (02:15)
1-15. Crouch End Festival Chorus – Gartenlieder, Op.3: VI. Im Wald, H-U 418 (02:35)
1-16. London Mozart Players – Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60 MWV D3: Overture (Das schlechte Wetter) (07:27)
1-17. London Mozart Players – Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60 MWV D3: (Der Übergang zum Frühling) (01:37)
1-18. Marc Le Brocq – Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60 MWV D3: I. Ein Druide (04:14)
1-19. Jess Dandy – Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60 MWV D3: II. Eine alte Frau aus dem Volke (02:13)
1-20. Ashley Riches – Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60 MWV D3: III. Der Priester (01:57)
1-21. Crouch End Festival Chorus – Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60 MWV D3: IV. Chor der Wächter der Druiden (01:42)
1-22. Ashley Riches – Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60 MWV D3: V. Ein Wächter der Druiden (02:10)
1-23. Crouch End Festival Chorus – Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60 MWV D3: VI. Chor der Wächter der Druiden und des Heidenwolks (04:22)
1-24. Ashley Riches – Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60 MWV D3: VII. L’istesso tempo – Der Priester (03:04)
1-25. Marc Le Brocq – Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60 MWV D3: VIII. Ein christlicher Wächter (01:06)
1-26. Ashley Riches – Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Op.60 MWV D3: IX. Der Priester (02:33)

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