GMCD 7163

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Philipp Christoph KAYSER
(1755 - 1823)

Goethe-Lieder & Chamber Music
Cantata for two Sopranos & String Quartet
Sonatas for Violin Piano & 2 Horns

Roy Howat - Piano / Oliver Lewis - Violin
Dave Lee & Chris Davies - Horn
Debra Morley-Soprano
Serena Kay - Mezzo Soprano
Ceruti Quartet:
Oliver Lewis - 1st Violin, Pan Hon Lee - 2nd Violin,
Miranda Davis - Viola, Oliver Gledhill - Cello
Garrie & Steve Davislim - Tenor
William Fong - Piano
Andrew Zolinsky - Piano Solo

World Premier Recording

Music from the Zentralbibliothek Zurich

Contents:

	SONATA NO.1 IN D MAJOR FOR PIANO, VIOLIN & 2 HORNS
1.	Allegro assai	[4.03]
2.	Poco Allegretto	[2.38]
3.	Allegro	[3.12]
	CHRISTMAS CANTATA FOR TWO SOPRANOS & STRING QUARTET
4.	Andante	[1.39]
5.	Andantino poco vivo	[0.36]
6.	Molto andantino	[1.30]
7.	All breve	[0.35]
	SONATA NO.2 IN E FLAT MAJOR FOR PIANO, VIOLIN & 2 HORNS
8.	Allegro maestoso	[5.15]
9.	Adagio sostenuto	[4.48]
10.	Presto	[3.02]
	FIVE SONGS
11.	Um Friede	[0.37]
12.	Romanze	[1.21]
13.	An Belinden	[2.17]
14.	Aria from Erwin and Elmire 'Ihr verblühet, süsse Rosen'	[5.06]
15.	Aria from Erwin and Elmire 'Ein Schauspiel für Götter'	[3.54]
	JOHANN BRÜNNINGS (Ca. 1760-18??)
.	SONATA NO.2 IN C MAJOR FOR PIANO
16.	Vivace	[3.04]
17.	Largo assai e sostenuto	[2.08]
18.	Allegro spirituoso	[6.00]
	SONATA NO.3 IN E FLAT MAJOR FOR PIANO
19.	Presto ma tranquillamente e legato	[5.28]
20.	Largo	[3.16]
21.	Presto vivo grazioso	[2.26]

DDD Total time = 64.37 Tracks 1-3, 8-11,16-21 Recorded at Charterhouse Hall, Godalming Surerey 5-9 April 1999
Tracks 4-7 Recorded at Charterhouse Chapel, Golalming Surrey 21 March 1999
Tracks 11-15 Recorded at St. Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London 26 April 1999

The Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Zurich Central Library) possesses what is probably the largest collection of Kayser’s works, including the autograph of his singspiel Scherz, List und Rache and the rare first editions of the works recorded here. Also represented on this CD is Kayser’s contemporary Johann David Brünings. Neither his date of birth nor that of his death is known. We know only that he came from Hessen, lived in Zurich from the mid-1780s until 1799, and thereafter departed for St Petersburg. Of his further career, nothing is known at all. David Hess, a member of Kayser’s masonic lodge and a friend of both men, wrote that ‘[Brünings was] just as excellent an eccentric as our brother Kayser . . . These two men, so similar in nature, never came together, although they lived for ten years in the same place. Far removed from any petty tradesman’s jealousy, they spoke with great respect of each other, but neither wished to take steps that would have led to closer relations with the other. And so they remained apart who could have done so much together. Neither of these excellent musicians ever even heard the other play.’

Of Brünings’ compositions, only three opus numbers are known to have survived: three piano sonatas op. 1; three piano sonatinas op. 2; and three piano trios op. 3. The only known copy of the sonatas op. 1 – of which Nos. 2 and 3 are recorded here – is held by the Zentralbibliothek Zürich. Brünings is of importance to the history of music in Zurich, not least because he was the teacher of Hans Georg Nägeli, the Zurich pedagogue and music publisher. It was also Nägeli who published Brünings’ sonatas. The works of Kayser and Brünings are all recorded here for the very first time. Together with our CD of the music of Anton Liste (Guild Music CD 7154), we believe that the present recording is an excellent witness to the vigour of musical life in Zurich at the end of the 18^th century

Page revised Wednesday M ay 09 2007

Philipp Christoph KAYSER (1755 - 1823)

World Premier Recording

Philipp Christoph KAYSER
(1755 - 1823)