761203570522

Jacob Schuback: Brockes-passion

Theresa von Bibra; Franziska Blomer; Christian Rohrbach; Hans Jorg Mammel; Matthias Horn; Matthias

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: 555705-2

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Release Date:  18 April 2025

Label:  Cpo - Full Price / CPO

Packaging Type:  Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  761203570522

Genres:  Classical  Choral  

Composer/Series:  Jacob Schuback

  • Description

    "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...