Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Florian Sievers, Frieder Bernius, Johanna Winkel, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Maximilian Vogler - Louis Spohr: Des Heilands letzte Stunden. Passionsoratorium (2025)
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It is both regrettable and incomprehensible that Louis Spohr is virtually unknown today as a composer of oratorios, as he was extremely highly regarded as such byhis contemporaries.Among musicologists at least, he is counted together with Mendelssohn as one of the most important German composers of oratorios in the first half of the 19th century.
Inspired by a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Spohr wrote his Passion oratorio Des Heilands letzte Stunden WoO 62 in 1834, which reports the Passion events from an unusual perspective.