With Orpheus to the Underworld
CD "Cara mia cetra" - Jens Hamann (Baritone) and Thorsten Bleich (Lute)
After the release of the CD "Cara mia cetra", Bach Prize winner Jens Hamann and lutenist Thorsten Bleich developed various programmes with a focus on works by Italian composers of the early Baroque period and expanded the ensemble as needed with specialists in this repertoire.
| Label: | Conditura Records |
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| Released: | 13 November 2020 |
| Title: | "Cara mia Cetra" With Orpheus to the Underworld |
| Ensemble: | Jens Hamann (Baritone) Thorsten Bleich (Lute) |
ABOUT THE CD
“I wanted to sing like Orpheus…”
That's what a well-known singer-songwriter once said and sang, and that's exactly what the well-known baritone Jens Hamann impressively demonstrates on his new album. Together with Thorsten Bleich, probably one of Germany's most renowned guitar and lute instrumentalists of early music, Hamann demonstrates his extraordinarily multi-faceted and versatile vocal artistry in an exciting collection of songs from the 17th century. Bach Prize winner Jens Hamann, who has gained an international reputation as a concert singer in larger ensembles, demonstrates his skills here in the wide range between quiet, delicate intimacy and expansive, powerful vocal power, as Orpheus probably could not have done better.
Four concert programmes
1. PROGRAMM "AMORE E VIRTU"
Secular solo cantatas from Italy for the 400th birthday of Antonio Cesti.
The operatic works of the jubilarian Antonio Cesti (1623-1669) are combined with pieces by Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690): "Il Nerone " and Giacomo Carissimi's (1605-1674) "Lucifer" could form a dramaturgical bracket or be replaced by instrumental interludes.
Il Nerone
Tra l’orride pendici
O dell’anima mia
Chino la fronte e taccio Per l’ampio mar d’amore
Sorgea dal sen di Lete A piè d’eccelso monte Cessa d’esser Amante
Amore e virtù
Lucifer
Sacred solo cantatas and lamentations of Holy Week
Dulcis amor
In calvaria rupe
Factum est praelium magnum in coelis
Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)
O vulnera doloris Domine Deus meus
Lodovico da Viadana (1564-1645)
Cantemus Domino
O Jesu, dulcis memoria Salve Regina
Giovan Battista Riccio (1570-1621)
Confitemini Domino
Giovan Battista Riccio (1570-1621)
Johann Rosenmüller (1619-1684)
Prima lamentatione del Mercordi sera -
Incipit Lamentatio Hieremiae Prophetae: Aleph
Prima lamentatione del Giovedi sera -
Incipit Lamentatio Hieremiae Prophetae: Heth
3. PROGRAMM "GUERRA AMOROSA"
Secular solo cantatas of the 1st half of the 18th century from Germany, England, Italy & France.
The thematic connection through the theme of infatuation, happiness in love and (separation) pain makes the juxtaposition of the compositions from Germany, England, Italy and France attractive through slight variations in the instrumentation. Thematically, a connection of Cesti's works with a selection of the following solo cantatas would also be appealing.
Amore traditore BWV 203
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Dalla guerra amorosa HWV 102
Jean-Baptiste Stuck (1680-1755)
Mars Jaloux
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Tra speranza e timore
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1679-1749)
Jens Hamann | Baritone, Christine Busch | Violin, Dmitri Dichtiar | Cello, Jens Wollenschläger | Cembalo
With Orpheus into the Underworld
English and Italian Lute Songs of the 17th Century
Orpheus I am
William Lawes (1602 – 1645)
I burn
Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643)
Rosa del ciel
Sigismondo d`India (1582 – 1629)
Cara mia Cetra andianne
Giovanni Kapsberger (? – 1651)
Toccata e Passacaglia
Robert Johnson (1583 – 1633)
Have you seen the bright lily grow?
William Lawes (1602 – 1645)
White though ye be, yet, Lilies, know
Robert Johnson (1583 – 1633)
As I walked forth
John Dowland (1563 – 1626)
Fortune my foe
Tell me, dearest, what is love?
William Lawes (1602 – 1645)
He that will not love must be my Scholar?
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 – 1643)
Donna siam Rei di morte
William Lawes (1602 – 1645)
Oft have I sworn I’d love no more I ́m sick of love
Robert Johnson (1583 – 1633)
Care-charming sleep
Giovanni Kapsberger (? – 1651)
Passacaglia
Sigismondo d`India (1582 – 1629)
Lamento d’ Orfeo
Supplementary readings on the Orpheus myth by Gustav Schwab and Rainer Maria Rilke are possible.
Jens Hamann, Baritone | Thorsten Bleich, Lute