2009 marks the bicentennial observance of the passing of Franz Joseph Haydn, and there remains quite a bit of his voluminous output to be recorded, and it seems as good a time as any to reintroduce Harmonia Mundi's Cantatas for the Esterházys, featuring Andreas Spering, the VokalEnsemble Köln, and the Capella Coloniensis of the WDR, to the catalog. Originally released in 2001, this disc addresses a neglected part of Haydn's output: the early cantatas Haydn composed for Prince Nicolaus I's court. At the time Haydn assumed ...
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2009 marks the bicentennial observance of the passing of Franz Joseph Haydn, and there remains quite a bit of his voluminous output to be recorded, and it seems as good a time as any to reintroduce Harmonia Mundi's Cantatas for the Esterházys, featuring Andreas Spering, the VokalEnsemble Köln, and the Capella Coloniensis of the WDR, to the catalog. Originally released in 2001, this disc addresses a neglected part of Haydn's output: the early cantatas Haydn composed for Prince Nicolaus I's court. At the time Haydn assumed the post of vice Kapellmeister at the Esterházy estate in 1761, he had only been working as a professional composer for a short time and was regarded by his rivals as an inexperienced upstart; he wasn't named to the top position until 1766. Haydn's cantatas from this early period are rare and the majority of them are either lost or only survive in fragmentary form with their texts replaced. This disc features three of the survivors; both Destatevi, o miei fidi (1763) and Al Tuo arrivo...
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