Klaus Mertens, Dmitri Grigoriev – Cantabo Domino (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

“An excellent master of his craft” (M. Harras). For four decades, bass-baritone Klaus Mertens has been acclaimed by critics in concerts and nearly 200 album recordings as “unearthly radiant”, “wonderfully slender, clearly delineating” and “unchanged fresh and immensely homogeneous” for his interpretations of music ranging from early to avant-garde. Dmitri Grigoriev was born in 1979 in Leningrad and studied organ and piano after private lessons at the conservatories in St. Petersburg and Kazan, where he completed his studies in 2007 with the state concert exam.

The two musicians play music from “three centuries” on this album. Cantor Dmitri Grigoriev and Klaus Mertens deliberately chose a program for this project that, on the one hand, takes into account the diverse colors and possibilities of the so special organ on site, and on the other hand, is able to provide a small but subtle insight into sounds and styles of vocal music over three centuries.

Tracklist:
1-01. Klaus Mertens – Cantabo Domino (04:35)
1-02. Klaus Mertens – Ach Gott und Herr, BWV 714 (Arr. for Baritone & Organ) (03:28)
1-03. Klaus Mertens – Bringt her dem Herren, SWV 283 (03:53)
1-04. Klaus Mertens – Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 691 – Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 647 (Arr. for Baritone & Organ) (05:45)
1-05. Dmitri Grigoriev – Trio in G Minor, BWV 584 (02:40)
1-06. Klaus Mertens – Bist du bei mir (Attrib. J.S. Bach’s BWV 508) (03:01)
1-07. Klaus Mertens – No. 4, Vater unser (04:37)
1-08. Dmitri Grigoriev – II. Cantilène (04:44)
1-09. Klaus Mertens – Es ist genug (Arr. for Baritone & Organ) (05:13)
1-10. Klaus Mertens – No. 1, Ich sehe dich in tausend Bildern (03:02)
1-11. Klaus Mertens – No. 2, Meine Seele ist still zu Gott (02:49)
1-12. Klaus Mertens – No. 1, Oblak a mrákota jest vůkol Něho (02:30)
1-13. Klaus Mertens – No. 4, Hospodin jest můj pastýř (03:20)
1-14. Klaus Mertens – No. 5, Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele [Arr. for Baritone & Organ] (01:27)
1-15. Klaus Mertens – No. 10, Herzlich tut mich verlangen [Arr. for Baritone & Organ] (02:38)
1-16. Dmitri Grigoriev – No. 8, Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (02:19)
1-17. Klaus Mertens – No. 1, Denn es gehet dem Menschen (04:44)
1-18. Klaus Mertens – No. 2, Ich wandte mich und sahe an alle (03:53)
1-19. Klaus Mertens – No. 3, O Tod, wie bitter bist du (03:51)
1-20. Klaus Mertens – No. 4, Wenn ich mit Menschen und mit Engelszungen redete (05:18)