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Hummel's oratorio Der Durchzug durchs Rote Meer (The Passage Through the Red Sea) was long thought to have been lost, but a copy has surfaced in a London collection. This is the work's world-premiere recording and perhaps its premiere performance: according to the booklet, it was never performed during Hummel's lifetime. After you hear it, that fact will surprise you; the music has a formal freedom that would lead you to believe that later composers could easily have been familiar with it. The work was probably written in the first part of Hummel's career, when he followed Haydn as music director at Esterháza castle, and it shows the impact of Haydn's late masses, of Die Schöpfung, and of Beethoven's early choral music. However, it has plenty of original ideas, and it doesn't sound much like Hummel's better-known instrumental works. It is quite compact, and its most distinctive feature is flexible text setting that achieves considerable power. The individual numbers are not set pieces for chorus or for one of the five soloists, but intersperse choral and solo passages in a way that suggests music from later in the nineteenth century. Sample the fugue in track 5, which effectively breaks off at its climax for another statement from Moses, the soloist. Hummel's use of recitatives is likewise flexible, with both secco and accompanied passages; the simple recitatives are here accompanied on a fortepiano. The performance is exemplary. The Rheinische Kantorei is one of those regional German choirs whose rich textures demonstrate just how deeply choral singing is embedded in the country's musical and social fabric, and the performance features soprano Simone Kermes among other top-notch soloists. The players of Das kleine Konzert under Hermann Max are both lively and accurate in this live performance, recorded in enough sonic detail to catch everybody taking a breath as the conductor raises his baton, but also to reveal Hummel's attractive textures in full color. Germany's CPO label, which has specialized in unusual works of the Classical and post-Classical periods, has scored one of its most significant releases here.
© TiVo
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Der Durchzug durchs rote Meer, S33, Pt. 1 (Johann Nepomuk Hummel)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Hermann Max, Conductor - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Hermann Max, Conductor - Rheinische Kantorei, Choir, MainArtist - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Hermann Max, Conductor - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra - Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Ekkehard Abele, Artist, MainArtist - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Hermann Max, Conductor - Rheinische Kantorei, Choir - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Hermann Max, Conductor - Rheinische Kantorei, Choir, MainArtist - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Ekkehard Abele, Artist - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Hermann Max, Conductor - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra - Hans Jörg Mammel, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Hermann Max, Conductor - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra - Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Hermann Max, Conductor - Rheinische Kantorei, Choir - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra - Hans Jörg Mammel, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Der Durchzug durchs rote Meer, S33, Pt. 2 (Johann Nepomuk Hummel)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Hermann Max, Conductor - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra - Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Simone Kermes, Artist, MainArtist - Hermann Max, Conductor - Rheinische Kantorei, Choir - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra - Hans Jörg Mammel, Artist - Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Artist - Veronika Winter, Artist
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Hermann Max, Conductor - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra - Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Simone Kermes, Artist, MainArtist - Hermann Max, Conductor - Rheinische Kantorei, Choir - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Hermann Max, Conductor - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra - Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Ekkehard Abele, Artist - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Composer - Hermann Max, Conductor - Rheinische Kantorei, Choir - Das Kleine Konzert, Orchestra - Veronika Winter, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
Albumbeschreibung
Hummel's oratorio Der Durchzug durchs Rote Meer (The Passage Through the Red Sea) was long thought to have been lost, but a copy has surfaced in a London collection. This is the work's world-premiere recording and perhaps its premiere performance: according to the booklet, it was never performed during Hummel's lifetime. After you hear it, that fact will surprise you; the music has a formal freedom that would lead you to believe that later composers could easily have been familiar with it. The work was probably written in the first part of Hummel's career, when he followed Haydn as music director at Esterháza castle, and it shows the impact of Haydn's late masses, of Die Schöpfung, and of Beethoven's early choral music. However, it has plenty of original ideas, and it doesn't sound much like Hummel's better-known instrumental works. It is quite compact, and its most distinctive feature is flexible text setting that achieves considerable power. The individual numbers are not set pieces for chorus or for one of the five soloists, but intersperse choral and solo passages in a way that suggests music from later in the nineteenth century. Sample the fugue in track 5, which effectively breaks off at its climax for another statement from Moses, the soloist. Hummel's use of recitatives is likewise flexible, with both secco and accompanied passages; the simple recitatives are here accompanied on a fortepiano. The performance is exemplary. The Rheinische Kantorei is one of those regional German choirs whose rich textures demonstrate just how deeply choral singing is embedded in the country's musical and social fabric, and the performance features soprano Simone Kermes among other top-notch soloists. The players of Das kleine Konzert under Hermann Max are both lively and accurate in this live performance, recorded in enough sonic detail to catch everybody taking a breath as the conductor raises his baton, but also to reveal Hummel's attractive textures in full color. Germany's CPO label, which has specialized in unusual works of the Classical and post-Classical periods, has scored one of its most significant releases here.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:50:38
- Main artists: Kleine Konzert, Das
- Composer: Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- Label: CPO
- Genre: Klassiek Vocale muziek (wereldlijk en religieus) Koormuziek
(C) 2007 CPO (P) 2007 CPO
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