Schurmann / Weser-Renaissance Bremen / Cordes Cantatas CD

The fifth concert in our series of "Music from Wolfenb?ttel Castle" features performances and recordings of multifaceted cantatas by Georg Caspar Sch?rmann. Like no other musician before him, Sch?rmann exercised a comprehensive influence on the Wolfenb?ttel court music world during his more than fifty years of service there. During these decades he produced an impressively extensive and richly varied oeuvre: almost thirty operas, numerous table compositions, a Passion, and various church cantatas for large ensembles are documented. In his Christmas cantata "Siehe, eine Jungfrau ist schwanger" we experience Sch?rmann as a composer of gripping ensemble compositions with finely chiseled fugue subjects. For many years the anonymous New Year's cantata "Nimm das Opfer unsrer Hertzen" was also ascribed to Sch?rmann. Although Georg ?sterreich is now assumed to have been it's composer, the opening aria in particular with it's highly effective postponement of the resolution of dissonances displays a clear stylistic closeness to Sch?rmann's opera arias from this time.