Handel – La Resurrezione (Ewerhart) [1961]

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E. Gabry – soprano
A.M. Topler-Marizy – soprano
E. Lisken – contralto
A. Fackert – tenor
E. Wenk – bass

Santini Kamerchor
Santini Kamerorchester Munster
R. Ewerhart- director

La resurrezione (HWV 47) is a sacred oratorio by George Frideric Handel, set to a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece (1652–1728). Capece was court poet to Queen Maria Casimira of Poland, who was living in exile in Rome. It was first performed on the Easter Sunday of 1708 at Rome, with the backing of the Marchese Francesco Ruspoli, Handel's patron at this time. The work details the events between - and during - Good Friday and Easter Sunday, with the action carried forward in recitative, and exploration of character and delineation of mood taking place in the arias. The characters of the liturgical drama that appear in the oratorio are Lucifer (bass), Mary Magdalene (soprano), an Angel (soprano), St John the Evangelist (tenor), and St Mary Cleophas (alto).

A mini Messiah for six soloists and orchestra, this little known masterpiece was composed in Rome for performance at Easter 1708. It was commissioned by Marchese Ruspoli to impress the Pope with no expense spared. Opera had been banned but spectacular oratorios became opera in all but name. The commission specified elaborate staging, decoration was lavish and the large orchestra was based upon 40 strings, led by Corelli, with wind.---mdt.co.uk

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