Constantin Emanuel
Constantin Emanuel sings from Schemellis Gesangbuch
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917226324
- Catalog number CC 72263
- Release date 06 January 2015
About the album
TON KOOPMAN: Georg Christian Schemelli (ca. 1676-1762) is known to us primarily because of the book of songs he published, the Musicalisches Gesang-Buch (Leipzig, 1736). This book contains 954 songs, 69 of which have melodies and a figured bass. It was long assumed that Johann Sebastian Bach, who is mentioned in the preface to the volume, played a major part in the completion of these songs, or at least in writing the figured bass lines. The 69 songs are therefore included in the corpus of the Bach Werke Verzeichnis (BWV catalogue). Although Schemelli’s volume was not particularly successful when it first appeared, being sold off at remainder prices, the position has changed quite radically now. These occasionally simple, directly appealing melodies and texts now form part of the day-to-day repertoire of many singers. Editions of what has become a well-loved volume are available in all sorts of transpositions.
This CD displays the talents of a boy treble who turned 15 a few months ago and who is still singing as a treble – quite unusual these days but absolutely normal in Bach’s time, when boys’ voices would often ‘break’ at around the age of 16. I think it is important for us to document a voice of this sort. Since the days of Sebastian Hennig, whose voice can be followed from the age of 11 through to 15 on many of Gustav Leonhardt’s recordings of Bach cantatas, Constantin is one of the very few boy trebles whose voice transcends the ‘sweet’ and who has something to say in musical terms.
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11Vater unser im Himmelreich (from Clavier Übung III), BWV 683
01:19 -
12Ich steh an deiner Krippe hier, BWV 469
02:27 -
13Brunnquell aller Güter, BWV 445
02:26 -
14Andante from Pastorale in F, BWV 590
02:52 -
15Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen, BWV 452
01:24 -
16Nur mein Jesus ist mein Leben, BWV 490
02:13 -
17Jesu, meines Glaubens Zier, BWV 472
02:04 -
18Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten, BWV 691
01:50 -
19Jesu, deine Liebeswunden, BWV 471
01:31 -
110Ermuntre dich, mein schwacher Geist, BWV 454
03:07 -
111Fuga in C, BuxWV 174
02:57 -
112Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 465
01:59 -
113Lasset uns mit Jesu ziehen, BWV 481
03:04 -
114Sonata in G, K 328
03:22 -
115Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille, BWV 460
01:37 -
116Sei gegrüsset, Jesu, gütig, BWV 499
02:07 -
117Partita Auf meinen lieben Gott in e minor, BuxWV 179 ((Allemande & double, Sarabande, Courante, Gigue)
03:54 -
118Nicht so traurig, nicht so sehr, BWV 489
02:19 -
119Beglückter Stand getreuer Seelen, BWV 442
02:25 -
120Jesu meines Herzens Freud, BWV 473
01:59 -
121Menuet with variations (after flute sonata op. 2 nr. 10, from the ‘Klavierboek van Quirijn en Jacoba Elizabeth van Bambeek van Strijen)
05:59 -
122Bist du bei mir, BWV 508
02:17