Musique au Temple de Carouge, 200th anniversary, 1822-2022

Nicolaus BRUHNS: Praeludium in E Minor – Arcangelo CORELLI: Sonata da chiesa a tre in A Minor, Op. 1, No. 4 – Stanisław Sylwester SZARZYNSKI: Jesu, spes mea – Johann Sebastian BACH: Jesus, meine Zuversicht, BWV 728 – Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein, BWV 734 – Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV 727 – Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196: III. Aria, “Er segnet, die den Herrn fürchten” – Prelude and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 539 – Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH: Geistliche Gesänge, Wq. 197, H. 749: No. 13 Der Tag des Weltgerichts – Geistliche Gesänge, Wq. 197, H. 752: No. 29 Jesus in Gethsemane – Adagio in D Minor, H. 352 – Franz Joseph HAYDN: Mass No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Hob. XXII:7 “Missa brevis Sancti Johannis de Deo”: Benedictus – Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Church Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat Major, K. 67 – Church Sonata No. 6 in B-Flat Major, K. 212 – Church Sonata No. 17 in C Major, K. 336.

Marjeta Iva Cerar, Soprano – Marcelo Giannini, Organ – Juliette Roumailhac & Jonathan Nubel, Violins – Karolina Plywaczewska, Cello.

It is with joy and enthusiasm that I welcomed the proposal of the Protestant Parish of Carouge to make this recording in the context of the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the Temple of Carouge, of which I am the organist. The generous beauty of this temple is in itself a source of inspiration.

I wanted this recording to be an echo of the “musical services” that I have had the pleasure of organizing for many years. It contains works for solo organ, sacred vocal pieces and a few so-called ‘church sonatas’, and I have called on the soprano Marjeta Iva Cerar and a string trio consisting of Juliette Roumailhac and Jonathan Nubel, violins, and Karolina Plywaczewska, cello, who play on period instruments using, depending on the work, either baroque or classical bows.

Marcelo Giannini

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