Flamig - Hercules: A Pasticcio after Handel & JS Bach
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Label: Querstand
Cat No: VKJK2001
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 28th October 2022
Contents
Artists
Kaspar KronerChristina Roterberg
Susanne Lagner
Tobias Hunger
Stadtsingechor zu Halle
Handelfestspielorchester Halle
Conductor
Clemens FlamigWorks
Hercules (Pasticcio after Handel HWV69 and JS Bach BWV213)Artists
Kaspar KronerChristina Roterberg
Susanne Lagner
Tobias Hunger
Stadtsingechor zu Halle
Handelfestspielorchester Halle
Conductor
Clemens FlamigAbout
Though Handel and Bach were born around four weeks apart and just 150km apart in distance, they never encountered one another in person. By compiling both Bach's Lasst uns sorgen, lasst uns wachen and Handel's The Choice of Hercules, Flamig has honoured the Baroque pasticcio practice. The pasticcio practice was a popular method of composition in Bach and Handel's time and was particularly well-used within the opera world to create newly devised stage works by bringing together pieces of music from different composers.
Even though it is deeply rooted in ancient mythology, the themes of virtue found within the myth of Hercules made it particularly popular amongst Christians far and wide. Thus, on 5 September 1733 in Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach, with his Collegium musicum, performed his Dramma per musica Lasst uns sorgen, lasst uns wachen, BWV213, to mark the eleventh birthday of the Saxon crown prince Friedrich Christian. In the summer of 1750, 17 years after Bach and shortly before his last trip to Germany, George Frideric Handel took on the same story in his work The Choice of Hercules, HWV69.
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