Johann Ephraim Eggert
Choral–Lieder zu dem Glocken–Spiel der Altstadtschen Ober–Pfarr–Kirche
zu St. Catherinen ausgesetzt mit Variationes, Danzig 1784
Wydawca: Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Gdańska, © 2006
Performers:
Frank Deleu – 1,2,18,19,27,28
Gert Oldenbeuving – 5,6,7,10,11,12,13
Małgorzata Fiebig-Drzewiecka – 3,4,8,9,26
Fabian Stanisz – 14,15,16,17,29
Monika Kaźmierczak – 20,21,22,23,24,25
For this CD the performing carillonneurs could choose between two excellent carillons in Gdańsk: the light three–octave meantone carillon in the Town Hall tower and the impressive four–octave carillon at St. Catherine’s Church. They also selected which compositions to play from Eggert’s manuscript.
Choral–melodies in the Eggert’s manuscript appear in two versions (a long version for the hour and a shorter version for the half hour). A number of examples of both versions were performed on CD. Although Eggert’s musie for the St Catherine’s Church carillon was primarily intended to be played automatically, in several places in the manuscript we find notations of ornaments; ornaments that not could be programmed on the carillon drum for automatic play. This could be the proof that the music was also intended to be played by hand, perhaps on the carillon, the organ or the harpsichord.
All the performers in this CD played the music manually on the carillon keyboard, unhindered by the limits of the carillon drum pins but instead producing real carillon music of excellent quality.
Frank Deleu
Recoreded and mastered by Mariusz Zaczkowski, Studio MTS, Gdańsk, May 2006 © ZAiKS 2006