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Handel: Brockes-Passion
NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Gottingen, Laurence Cummings
Cummings has made a splendid contribution towards rehabilitating a piece which sits awkwardly beside the Handel we know much better. Sebastian Kohlhepp is an eloquent Evangelist and Tobias Berendt...
Handel: Brockes-Passion
NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Gottingen, Laurence Cummings
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Cummings has made a splendid contribution towards rehabilitating a piece which sits awkwardly beside the Handel we know much better. Sebastian Kohlhepp is an eloquent Evangelist and Tobias Berendt...
About
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.
Contents and tracklist
- Johannette Zomer, Rupert Charlesworth, David Erler, Fabian Kuhnen, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Tobias Berndt, Ana Maria Labin, Sebatian Kohlhepp, Gesine Grube, Dávid Csizmár, Gabriele-Betty Klein, Andreas Pruys, Dorothee Risse-Fries
- FestspielOrchester Göttingen, FestspielOrchester GöttingenFestspielOrchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, NDR Choir
- Laurence Cummings
Awards and reviews
September 2019
Cummings has made a splendid contribution towards rehabilitating a piece which sits awkwardly beside the Handel we know much better. Sebastian Kohlhepp is an eloquent Evangelist and Tobias Berendt a resonant Jesus…Rupert Charlesworth, in the role of Peter is, for my ears, the brightest star in the constellation, along with a commendably alert chorus.
September 2019
Cummings’s unerring judgment of tempos, solemn yet dramatic pacing, articulation, shaping and textures are matched with marvellous responsiveness from the festival orchestra…Tobias Berndt’s articulate serenity is ideal for Jesus’s pronouncements…every one of Handel’s individual short numbers is a gem, routinely performed here with bittersweet fluency.