SKU: CA.2302007
ISBN M-007-24884-0. German/English. Text: Franz Xaver Huber.
In his Passion oratorio Christus am Olberge [The Mount of Olives], Beethoven succeeded firstly in building on the 18th century tradition, and secondly in putting his own personal stamp on the nascent genre of German-language oratorio - the Vienna performances of Haydn's Die Schopfung and Die Jahreszeiten had only taken place a few years earlier. In composing the work he looked towards contemporary opera, using a text by an opera librettist to depict in music the dramatic situation of the doubting Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and his arrest. Yet we do not do justice to Beethoven's work if we simply regard it as a successor work to Graun's Der Tod Jesu or even Bach's St Matthew Passion. Beethoven's Christus am Olberge is characterized less by religious devotion and much more by the dramatic realization of a specific situation in the Passion story in deeply-felt musical scenes. With its magnificent, almost operatic music, this is a different Passion oratorio which is definitely worth hearing and experiencing - and in this form it is without doubt unique in the history of vocal-instrumental sacred music. The edition follows the first printed edition in music and text; differences in the text in the libretto originally set by Beethoven are given as a second text, and a singable English translation is underlaid. Score available separately - see item CA.2302000.
SKU: BA.BA05854
ISBN 9790006497935. 33 x 25.9 cm inches. Text: Müller, Johann Samuel.
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SKU: TM.04609SC
Duet. Score pgs 96-106. See #14212 for Complete Scene 4.
SKU: TM.04609SET
SKU: TM.01863SC
Vocal score in English only.
SKU: TM.01863SET
SKU: TM.11648SET
STB Soli in sc only. Ed. by Schroeder. 2 Cello I, 1 Cello II in set.
SKU: TM.05231SET
Vocal Score I =orig. STB; Vocal Score II =arr. SATB.
SKU: TM.11648SC