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Wolfgang Helbich, I Febiarmonici - Joseph Eybler: Christmas Oratorio (1999)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Wolfgang Helbich, I Febiarmonici - Joseph Eybler: Christmas Oratorio (1999)

Wolfgang Helbich, I Febiarmonici, Alsfelder Vokalensemble & Bremen Domchor - Joseph Eybler: Christmas Oratorio (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 337 Mb | Total time: 70:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 667-2 | Recorded: 1999

Joseph Eybler was a Viennese composer of the late 18th and 19th centuries. He was a pupil of Johan Georg Albrechtsberger (as were Hummel and Beethoven), and was a respected friend of Mozart and Haydn. He is believed to have had a close involvement with the composing and posthumous completion of Mozart's "Requiem". His Christmas Oratorio "The Shepherds at the Crib in Bethlehem" was his his first major choral work at the age of 29. Its musical style is a synergistic blend of "late baroque" elements (no doubt imbibed from his traditionalist mentor Albrechtsberger) together with the then modern style developed by Haydn and Mozart. Listeners can be grateful to the conductor of this performance, Wolfgang Helbich (Director of Music at Saint Peter's Cathedral in Bremen), whose resaerches have rescued this entrancing work from undesereved obscurity.

Wolfgang Helbich, Steintor Barock Bremen - The Apocryphal Bach Cantatas BWV 217-222 (1992)

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Wolfgang Helbich, Steintor Barock Bremen - The Apocryphal Bach Cantatas BWV 217-222 (1992)

Wolfgang Helbich, Steintor Barock Bremen - The Apocryphal Bach Cantatas BWV 217-222 (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 440 Mb | Total time: 42:28+58:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | 999 139-2 | Recorded: 1991

The cantatas BWV 217-222 are all now regarded as either being of dubious provenance or, in some cases, are definitely identified as being by composers other than J.S. Bach. However, it's worth considering them here because it is still possible that one or two of them may actually be genuine and since there is also a good quality recording available of this set (conducted by Wolfgang Helbich on CPO 999 139-2), so that listeners can come to their own conclusions!

Wolfgang Helbich, Musica Fiata Köln, Alsfelder Vokalensemble - Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen (1995)

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Wolfgang Helbich, Musica Fiata Köln, Alsfelder Vokalensemble - Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen (1995)

Wolfgang Helbich, Musica Fiata Köln, Alsfelder Vokalensemble - Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 771 Mb | Total time: 66:27+66:43+55:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 999 288-2 | Recorded: 1994

Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen ("Fear of Hell and Peace of the Soul") is a collection of sixteen settings of Psalm 116 in German, "Das ist mir lieb" (Psalms 116), commissioned by the Jena merchant Burckhard Grossmann in 1616 and eventually published in 1623. The composers are Heinrich Schütz, then in alphabetical order Michael Altenburg, Christoph Demantius, Nicolaus Erich, Andreas Finold, Melchior Franck, Abraham Gensreff, Johannes Groh, Johann Krause, Christian Michael, Daniel Michael, Rogier Michael, Tobias Michael, Michael Praetorius, Johann Hermann Schein and Caspar Trost.

Wolfgang Helbich, Alsfelder Vokalensemble - The Apocryphal Bach Motets, BWV Anh. 159-165 (1994)

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Wolfgang Helbich, Alsfelder Vokalensemble - The Apocryphal Bach Motets, BWV Anh. 159-165 (1994)

Wolfgang Helbich, Alsfelder Vokalensemble - The Apocryphal Bach Motets, BWV Anh. 159-165 (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 222 Mb | Total time: 55:72 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | 999 235-2 | Recorded: 1993

This release offers four works [by] Johann Ernst Bach (1722-77), Johann Christoph Altnikol (1719-59), Johann Bernhard Bach (1676-1749), and Georg Gottfried Wagner (1698-1756)…The level of craftsmanship in these works is indicative of Bach's art. Stylistically, they range from the foursquare formality of the baroque to the charm of the emerging rococo…The singing is light-toned and agile, with proper weight of emotion and excellent dynamic range…

Wolfgang Helbich, Bremer Domchor, Kammer Sinfonie Bremen - Weihnachten im Bremer Dom (2006)

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Wolfgang Helbich, Bremer Domchor, Kammer Sinfonie Bremen - Weihnachten im Bremer Dom (2006)

Wolfgang Helbich, Bremer Domchor, Kammer Sinfonie Bremen - Weihnachten im Bremer Dom (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 253 Mb | Total time: 59:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | 777 238-2 | Recorded: 2006

This year the Bremen Cathedral Choir is celebrating its 150th anniversary, and with its director of many years, Wolfgang Helbich, it also has certainly enjoyed a »musical marriage« of a rare kind. And then there is the splendid Bremen tradition that has been observed for some eighty years now: the Christmas song concert in St. Peter’s Cathedral so very dear to the hearts of the Bremen public. Since cpo, as a label with its home in Northern Germany, has long maintained close ties to the Hansa city (cf. Radio Bremen, Weser-Renaissance Bremen, and not least Helbich himself), it seemed to us to be high time to document this event full of the Christmas spirit for the pleasure of a wider listening audience. Everything that lends the Christmas season its musical magic is represented in traditional arrangements, from Adeste Fideles to Vom Himmel hoch.