Beethoven - Christ on the Mount of Olives | Phi LPH039

Beethoven - Christ on the Mount of Olives

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Label: Phi

Cat No: LPH039

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 28th October 2022

Contents

Artists

Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor)
Eleanor Lyons (soprano)
Thomas Bauer (bass)
Collegium Vocale Gent
Orchestre des Champs-Elysees

Conductor

Philippe Herreweghe

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Christus am Olberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives), op.85

Artists

Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor)
Eleanor Lyons (soprano)
Thomas Bauer (bass)
Collegium Vocale Gent
Orchestre des Champs-Elysees

Conductor

Philippe Herreweghe

About

Beethoven composed the oratorio Christus am Ölberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives) in just ‘a fortnight, amid all sorts of tumult and other unpleasant and alarming events in my life’. It marked the first time since the two ‘imperial cantatas’ of 1790, the Cantata on the Death of the Emperor Joseph II, WoO87, and the Cantata on the Accession of Leopold II, WoO88, that he had embarked on a multi-movement vocal work. Christus am Ölberge was also Beethoven’s first composition on a religious subject and was destined to remain his only oratorio.

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