Wolf / Herfurtner / Akademie: Wolf - COMPACT DISCS

Wolf / Herfurtner / Akademie: Wolf - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Wolf Artist: Wolf Herfurtner Akademie Label: Cpo Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 761203799923 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2018 06 15 Number of Discs: 1 Ernst Wilhelm Wolf's contemporaries called him the "Weimar Wolf," a fitting label, inasmuch as Weimar's musical environment greatly influenced the life of this teacher, concertmaster, and organist who advanced to the post of chapel master to Duchess Anna Amalia, a noted patron of the

Title: Wolf
Artist: Wolf / Herfurtner / Akademie
Label: Cpo Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 761203799923
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018-06-15
Number of Discs: 1

Ernst Wilhelm Wolf's contemporaries called him the "Weimar Wolf," a fitting label, inasmuch as Weimar's musical environment greatly influenced the life of this teacher, concertmaster, and organist who advanced to the post of chapel master to Duchess Anna Amalia, a noted patron of the arts. Even though he was a thorn in the flesh for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's prince of poets, he remained true to the court and his duchess over the decades. He even declined with thanks an offer from the King of Prussia, Frederick II, to succeed Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Berlin. However, the fact that Wolf highly valued Bach's empfindsamer Stil and the style of the Berlin chapel master Carl Heinrich Graun is clearly audible in his works. During recent years Wolf's instrumental music has attracted increasing attention. Now Michael Alexander Willens has recorded Wolf's oratorio Jesu, deine Passion will ich jetzt bedenken. In this work, like Graun in his Tod Jesu, the composer, who in 1756 was only a little over twenty, reflects on the Passion of Christ and relives it with deep emotion. An absolute masterpiece from the age of musical sensibility with arias of great melodic appeal that are guaranteed to leave no heart unmoved!

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