Dramatis

Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - C.P.E. Bach: Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu (1992)

Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - C.P.E. Bach: Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu Wq 240 (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 316 Mb | Total time: 75:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # VC 7 91498 2 | Recorded: 1992

Although frequently classified as an oratorio, C. P. E. Bach's Auferstehung und Himmeelfahrt Jesu is really a cantata. There are no named dramatis personae and it is evident from Emanuel Bach's own comments that he intended the work to have a partly didactic function. He also considered it, in his own words as "pre-eminent among all my vocal works in expression and in the composition". The author of the text was Karl Wilhelm Ramler, an important poet of the German Enlightenment whose texts had earlier attracted Telemann. Ramler and Bach engaged in a close collaboration over the Auferstehung and between Bach's setting of it in 1774 and the eventual publication by Breitkopf in 1787, composer and poet entered into a lively correspondence concerning the details and shape of the cantata. The first performance took place in Hamburg in 1778 when it was warmly received. Many subsequent performances were given culminating in three directed by Mozart in Vienna.
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Pergolesi: Lo frate 'nnamorato (2013) [BDrip]

Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante - Pergolesi: Lo frate 'nnamorato (2013) [BDrip]
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Audio: Italiano / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
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Pergolesi’s comic opera Lo frate ’nnamorato (The Brother in Love) from 1732 was his ticket to the Royal Chapel in Naples. Its huge success was due to the beautiful score, showing Pergolesi’s talent for opera compositions, and the exquisite Libretto by Gennarantonio Federico. Lo frate ‘nnamorato especially owes its wit and exuberance to the comic resources of improvisational theatre, which is refl ected in the narrative structure and relationships between the dramatis personae. Love triangles, marriage plans that come to nothing, intrigues and more lead the opera along to the unsuspected outcome.