Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge, Elegischer Gesang

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Segerstam’s sure pacing ensures that this performance never flags, while ensuring room to breathe in poetic moments…Jussi Myllys is an admirably clear-voiced Jesus, and Hanna-Leena Haapämaki... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 14th Jun 2019
Catalogue No: 8573852
Label: Naxos
Length: 63 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2019

Nominee - Choral

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Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge, Op. 85

Work length57:06

Jussi Myllys (tenor), Hanna-Leena Haapamäki (soprano), Niklas Spångberg (bass)
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis
Leif Segerstam

No. 1, Introduction

Track length6:59

No. 2, Jehovah! Du! Mein Vater!

Track length4:02

No. 3, Meine Seele ist erschüttert

Track length5:21

No. 4, Erzitt're, Erde!

Track length1:32

No. 5, Preist des Erlösers Güte

Track length3:27

No. 6, O Heil euch, ihr Erlösten!

Track length4:49

No. 7, Verkündet, Seraph, mir dein Mund Erbarmen

Track length1:09

No. 8, So ruhe denn mit ganzer Schwere

Track length7:05

No. 9, Willkommen Tod!

Track length1:09

No. 10, Wir haben ihn gesehen

Track length2:33

No. 11, Die mich zu fangen ausgezogen sind

Track length1:41

No. 12, Hier ist er, der Verbannte

Track length3:16

No. 13, Nicht ungestraft soll der Verweg'nen

Track length1:16

No. 14, In meinen Adern wühlen gerechter Zorn und Wuth

Track length5:06

No. 15, Auf, ergreifet den Verräther!

Track length3:01

No. 16, Welten singen Dank und Ehre

Track length1:31

No. 17, Preiset ihn, ihr Engelchöre

Track length3:09

Beethoven: Elegischer Gesang 'Sanft wie du lebtest' Op. 118

Work length6:49

Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
Leif Segerstam

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Ludwig van Beethoven’s only oratorio Christus am Olberge (‘Christ on the Mount of Olives’) portrays Jesus’ emotional struggles in the garden of Gethsemane before being seized by soldiers and taken for crucifixion. The work has an Italianate form with recitatives, arias and choruses, and its operatic attributes show Christ as a very human figure, a dramatic precursor to the sufferings of Florestan in Beethoven’s Fidelio. The tender and beautiful Elegischer Gesang is a memorial to the young wife of one of Beethoven’s close friends. Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis has specialized in large scale choral works since the choir’s inception in 1982. Virtually the entire canon of works for choir and orchestra are in the CCA’s repertoire: it has performed requiems by Verdi, Mozart, Faure and Part, as well as Bach’s Passions and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem.

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September 2019

Segerstam’s sure pacing ensures that this performance never flags, while ensuring room to breathe in poetic moments…Jussi Myllys is an admirably clear-voiced Jesus, and Hanna-Leena Haapämaki conveys the Seraph’s coloratura with suitable aplomb, ably supported by the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra.

January/February 2020

Conductor Leif Segerstam secures first-rate performances from both the chorus and orchestra. The recording is excellent, with a warm and resonant acoustic paired with a superb balance of soloists, chorus, and orchestra—no mean feat.

September 2019

In the demanding title-role, Myllys suffers little by comparison with Plácido Domingo…His baritonal reach brings grit and authority to those recitative pages of less compelling invention…Segerstam doesn’t miss a trick when it comes to Beethoven’s defiantly personal fusion of politics, religion and music.

Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge, Elegischer Gesang

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