STÖLZEL; GOTTFRIED HEINRICH

Stölzel: Good Enough for Bach, Definitely Good Enough for Us

Jens F. Laurson

If you’ve heard enough Beethoven and want to switch it […]

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Stölzel: Christmas Oratorio/Marien-Kantorei

David Vernier

Unlike the cantatas discussed in my review of Gottfried Stölzel’s 1736/37 so-called “Christmas Oratorio” on CPO (type Q4082 in Search Reviews), these, composed in 1728

Stölzel: Christmas Oratorio

David Vernier

Two years ago these same forces issued the three “Epistle cantatas” that make up half of this so-called Christmas Oratorio, and my comments regarding style,

Stölzel: Pentecost cantatas/Remy

David Vernier

As mentioned in my review of his Christmas Oratorio cantatas, Gottfried Stölzel was a highly skilled, sometimes exceptionally inventive composer among whose gifts was the

Beethoven Eroica etc Schuricht/Orfeo C

Jed Distler

Carl Schuricht leads off this 1961 Salzburg concert with the Vienna Philharmonic in a bracing and even pugnacious performance of Gottfried Stölzel’s Concerto Grosso. True,

Stölzel Christmas Oratorio

David Vernier

Gottfried Stölzel, an almost exact contemporary of J.S. Bach, was a remarkably skilled composer, his fertile melodic imagination balanced by a keen sense of how