Fürchtet euch nicht!
Sächsische Landesbibliothek Dresden
Mus.2115-E-527
Artistic excellence is by no means a sure guarantee of fame and reception in later times. It is often coincidental, sometimes downright banal circumstances that determine which works can still be experienced years or centuries after their creation. In the case of Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, it was a great fire - the castle fire in Rudolstadt in 1735 - that almost completely destroyed the legacy of this great artist only 20 years after his death.
Despite individual meritorious efforts in recent decades, only a fraction of the already small number of handwritten works that have survived are available in editions to this day, which means that the composer Erlebach still leads a shadowy existence, so to speak. Among the German composers of his time, however, Erlebach occupied a prominent position. Of the more than 750 works that Erlebach created during his time in Rudolstadt as a universal composer versed in French, Italian and German styles, fortunately some cantatas of particularly high musical expressiveness have survived the ages. Some of these precious gems, whose texts comment on our war-torn present from the past, as it were, are now presented by the Ensemble ad·petram for the first time in modern times.
Ensemble ad·petram
Soprano: Christina Boner Sutter, Cornelia Fahrion
Alto: Jan Börner, Antonia Frey
Tenore: Florian Cramer, Matthieu Romanens
Basso: Dominik Wörner, Álvaro Etcheverry
Violino: Plamena Nikitassova, Katharina Heutjer
Viola: Giovanni Simeoni, Nadine Henrichs, Soko Yoshida
Violone: Matthias Müller
Fagotto: Carles Cristobal
Tiorba: Julian Behr
Clarini: Julian Zimmermann, Olivier Mourault
Timpani: Hiram Santos
Organo: Christoph Anzböck
24th September 2023
15h lecture , 16h concert
Mariastein Abbey
