Wolfrum - Ein Weihnachtsmysterium (A Christmas Mystery)
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Label: Christophorus
Cat No: CHR77458
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Christmas
Release Date: 5th November 2021
Contents
Artists
Joo-Anne Bitter (soprano)Anne Schuldt (alto)
Pawel Brozek (tenor)
Martin Berner (baritone)
Hans Christian Hinz (baritone)
Hamelner Kantorei an der Martinkirche
Jugendkantorei Hamlen
Philipp-Wolfrum-Ensemble
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie
Conductor
Stefan VanselowWorks
Ein Weinachtsmysterium, op.31Artists
Joo-Anne Bitter (soprano)Anne Schuldt (alto)
Pawel Brozek (tenor)
Martin Berner (baritone)
Hans Christian Hinz (baritone)
Hamelner Kantorei an der Martinkirche
Jugendkantorei Hamlen
Philipp-Wolfrum-Ensemble
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie
Conductor
Stefan VanselowAbout
He worked as a choirmaster, organist, composer, professor and university music director in Heidelberg and friendships connected him with Engelbert Humperdinck, Max Reger and Richard Strauss. He also maintained close contact with the Bayreuth circle around Richard Wagner's widow Cosima. Liszt and Wagner were his great idols and this is also noticeable in his compositions. His opus magnum is the Weihnachtsmysterium (Christmas Mystery), first performed in 1898, in which the birth of Jesus is pictorially staged.
The conception for this more than one-and-a-half-hour work is influenced by medieval mystery plays and Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk.
The musical material consists of well-known German Christmas carols, which are processed in high chromatic harmony and late Romantic melody as well as with masterfully colourful orchestral treatment and are reminiscent of Wagner's operas or Liszt's symphonic poems, in places also of Brahms, Humperdinck or Reger.
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