Special offer. Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge
Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre Des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Special offer. Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge
Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre Des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
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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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- Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Sebastian Kohlhepp (soloist), Eleanor Lyons (soloist), Thomas Bauer (soloist)
- Collegium Vocale Gent
- Philippe Herreweghe
