L'Arpa Festante: Brockes-Passion

Reverie Piano Duo: Brockes-Passion - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Brockes-Passion

Artist:

Reverie Piano Duo

Label:

Cpo Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

761203570522

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2025-05-16

Number of Discs:

2

"Jesus, tortured and dying for the sins of the world": This is how the Hamburg librettist and senator Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680-1747) titled his dramatic adaptation of the Passion narrative-a text so popular that it was set to music nearly a dozen times in Hamburg alone. Composers included Reinhard Keiser, Johann Mattheson, George Frideric Handel, and Georg Philipp Telemann, among others. The jurist and diplomat Jacob Schuback (1726-1784) also composed his version of this so-called Brockes-Passion. And one must not assume that he, the son of a highly respected family, was merely a dilettante in the art of music. What Schuback created around the age of 30 during his musical "leisure hours" is, in the truest sense of the word, a gripping work. Choruses, recitatives, and arias follow one another with an almost operatic intensity, while characters imbued with vivid reality come to life with striking immediacy. Unsurprisingly, this Passion acquires a more profound, secondary significance

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