- Der Tod Jesu
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Der Tod Jesu is an oratorio libretto by Karl Wilhelm Ramler. In its setting by C. H. Graun it was the most often performed oratorio of the 18th Century in Germany.
The poem is part of the Empfindsamkeit movement of the 1750s. It is the middle of three oratorio texts by Ramler Die Hirten bei der Krippe zu Bethlehem, Der Tod Jesu, and Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt which may have been viewed by Ramler as a libretto cycle, though they were never set as a cycle by any composer.[1] The libretto was intended for Graun but a copy of Ramler's text was somehow received by Telemann who produced his own setting of the oratorio (TWV 5:6) in Hamburg before Graun could perform the premiere in Berlin.
Settings
- Telemann, Hamburg 1755 TWV 5:6
- Carl Heinrich Graun, Berlin 1755 - the best known of the settings, was performed yearly in many cities throughout the second half of the 18th century.
- Joseph Martin Kraus 1776 - in the Sturm and Drang style.
Selected recordings
- Telemann - (a) Ex Tempore, Le Mercure Galant. dir. Florian Heyerick. René Gailly (b) Telemann Chamber Orchestra, dir. Ludger Remy, CPO.
- Graun - (a) Capella Savaria dir. Pál Németh (conductor), HM Quintana, (b) dir. Sigiswald Kuijken. Hyperion Records, (c) Das Kleine Konzert, dir. Hermann Max, CPO 2009
- Kraus - with "Kom din herdestaf att bära" Philharmonia Chor Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Helmut Wolf. Carus-Verlag 1997
References
- ^ Howard E. Smither A History of the Oratorio 2000 p88 "One might also view the three texts by Carl Wilhelm Ramler — Die Hirten bei der Krippe zu Bethlehem, Der Tod Jesu, and Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt — as a libretto cycle, but these seem never to have been set by a single composer."
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