Kreusser - Der Tod Jesu | Rondeau ROP6252

Kreusser - Der Tod Jesu

£10.93

Label: Rondeau

Cat No: ROP6252

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Expected Release Date: 17th May 2024

Contents

Artists

Julia Sophie Wagner
Johannes Mayer
Christoph Pregardien
St Martin’s Cathedral Choir Mainz
Mainz Cathedral Orchestra

Conductor

Karsten Storck

Works

Kreusser, Georg Anton

Der Tod Jesu (The Death of Jesus)

Artists

Julia Sophie Wagner
Johannes Mayer
Christoph Pregardien
St Martin’s Cathedral Choir Mainz
Mainz Cathedral Orchestra

Conductor

Karsten Storck

About

With the first recording of Georg Anton Kreusser’s Passion oratorio The Death of Jesus, the Mainz Cathedral Choir of St Martin and the Mainz Cathedral Orchestra are reviving a lost musical treasure. Today, the sacred cantata is the only surviving witness to the rich oratorio culture of the city of Mainz’s flourishing musical life in the late 18th century. The Passion is based on the sentimental text by the Protestant poet Karl Wilhelm Ramler, which achieved some fame through Carl Heinrich Graun’s earlier setting. Graun’s oratorio was also performed in Mainz, along with only a few other Catholic courts. Unlike Graun, Kreusser’s setting of The Death of Jesus is deliberately orientated towards a rather operatic musical language and secular performance spaces.

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