Laurence Cummings, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, NDR Chor - George Frideric Handel: Brockes-Passion (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 722 Mb | Total time: 76:10+75:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accent | # ACC26411 | Recorded: 2017
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 722 Mb | Total time: 76:10+75:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Accent | # ACC26411 | Recorded: 2017
On occasion of the 300th anniversary of the first performance of Handel’s Brockes-Passion in Hamburg (4 April 1719), Accent present a 2017 live performance at the Göttingen Handel Festival with Laurence Cummings conducting the Festivalorchestra Göttingen, the NDR Chor and an excellent cast of singers such as the Dutch soprano Johannette Zomer and the young German tenor Sebastian Kohlhepp (as Evangelist). Barthold Heinrich Brockes’ passion text is one of the most frequently set in the history of music and was the only German text used by George Frideric Handel as the basis for a large-scale sacred composition. The original score was lost but the surviving version, which was hand-copied by Johann Sebastian Bach, makes it possible for us to hear this 1719 oratorio today.