Bavarian Radio Chorus: Judas MacCabaeus - COMPACT DISCS

Bavarian Radio Chorus: Judas MacCabaeus - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Judas MacCabaeus

Artist:

Bavarian Radio Chorus

Label:

Orfeo

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

4011790475028

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2022-10-21

Number of Discs:

2

Additional Details:

2 PACK

When Handel composed his Judas Maccabaeus in 1746 he had brought to an end his activity for the (Italian) opera in London and begun a second career as an oratorio composer, which at first got off to a very successful start but then soon experienced a decline, for which there had been various causes. Judas Maccabaeus is the evidence that Handle had recovered from this setback, and to this day the work is considered one of his most successful. Rafael Kubelík relies, without ifs and buts, on the Handel Edition by the North German musical scholar Friedrich Chrysander that appeared in the second half of the 19th century and represents a monument of the scholarly musical historicism that probably could appear only in Germany and not in England, Handel's artistic home. Apart from the old-fashioned German translation, most astonishing is the drastic cuts that Chrysander made. This historical live recording from 1963 presents Fritz Wunderlich as Judas together with Agnes Giebel, Julia Falk, Naan Pöld and Ludwig Welter.

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