/ Choeur
SKU: CA.4016911
ISBN 9790007063535. Language: German/English.
Men delssohns unfinished 3rd oratorio in its first critical edition. The parts Die Geburt Christi and Das Leiden Christi are presented with full orchestration. In 1852, five years after Mendelsohn's death, two independently-performable fragments of an unfinished oratorio were published under the title Christus. The second fragment, The Suffering of Jesus, comes from the middle of the Passion story: the scene Jesus before Pilot is presented with rapid, dramatic alternation between the recitatives of the evangelist (tenor) and choruses of the people. A contemplative choral movement closes the fragment.
SKU: CA.4017015
ISBN 9790007063665. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4016919
ISBN 9790007133122. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4017012
ISBN 9790007063634. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4016915
ISBN 9790007063573. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4016909
ISBN 9790007063528. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4017013
ISBN 9790007063641. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4017011
ISBN 9790007063627. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4016914
ISBN 9790007063566. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4017019
ISBN 9790007133139. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4017009
ISBN 9790007063610. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.4016913
ISBN 9790007063559. Language: German/English.
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: CA.4017014
ISBN 9790007063658. Language: German/English.
SKU: HL.50511031
ISBN 9790080061657. UPC: 073999495713. 7.5x10.5x0.96 inches. Latin. Gabor Darvas.
Territorial restrictions may apply. Please ask before ordering.