Fasch: Missa in G - Cantata - Suite in A

[Machine Translation] Fasch was a composer active in the late German Baroque period. He developed his talent as a violinist and traveled throughout Germany, was hired by the court orchestra of Bayreuth in 1714, and became court music director of Zerbst, Prussia, in 1722. He spent the rest of his life there. As director of music in Zerbst, he studied the religious trends of the time and took it upon himself to write works appropriate to them. It is said that he wrote cantatas for all church calendar days, but none of his works were published during his lifetime and most of them, except for the orchestral works, were scattered. This Mass in G major is one of the few religious works for which a score has survived. Careful attention was paid to the text used, and various techniques were employed to emphasize the meaning of the words, such as a short overture followed by the first soprano solo. The virtuoso Hermann Max delivers a powerful performance of this brilliant work, which is full of obbligato and arias for solo instruments.

ドイツ後期バロック期に活躍した作曲家ファッシュ。ヴァイオリニストとして才能を開花させ、ドイツ全土で演奏旅行を行い、1714年にバイロイトの宮廷楽団に採用され、1722年にはプロイセン、ツェルプストの宮廷楽長に就任。その地で生涯を過ごした。彼はツェルプストの音楽監督として、当時の宗教的傾向を研究し、それに見合った作品を書くことを自らに課し、全ての教会暦の日のためのカンタータを書いたとされているが、その作品は存命中には出版されることがなく、管弦楽作品以外のほとんどは散逸してしまった。このミサ曲ト長調は数少ない譜面が残存している宗教曲で、使われているテキストに細心の注意を払い、短い序曲のあと、最初にソプラノのソロが登場するなど言葉の意味を強調するために様々な手法が用いられている。ソロ楽器のオブリガートやアリアなどがふんだんに使われた華麗な作品を、名手ヘルマン・マックスが迫真の演奏で聴かせる。