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Leopold I - Il Sagrifizio d’Abramo, Miserere per la settimana santa | CPO 5551132

Leopold I - Il Sagrifizio d’Abramo, Miserere per la settimana santa

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 5551132

Barcode: 0761203511327

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 28th August 2020

Contents

Artists

Weser-Renaissance Bremen

Conductor

Manfred Cordes

Works

Leopold, Holy Roman Emperor I

Il Sagrifizio d'Abramo
Miserere per la settimana santa

Artists

Weser-Renaissance Bremen

Conductor

Manfred Cordes

About

Leopold I assigned music a central place in the cultural life of his times. He encouraged the production of music at his Vienna court and composed over 150 arias in Italian, some German-language oratorios and musical comedies, and many sacred works. His oratorio Il Sagrificio d’Abramo occupies a special place among Viennese Passion compositions because the figure of Isaac is described as a prefiguration of Christ. Since the librettist, Conte Caldana, places the sacrifice scene in the foreground in the first part of his text, an entirely new level of meaning is created. As a result, Ubidienza (Obedience) and Humanità (Humanity) become Abraham’s partners in dialogue from the very beginning. Although Leopold was only twenty years old at the time, he was already a composer of true mastery who was also able in his music to capture in tones the hopelessness of the situation and in part to venture beyond the actual limits of tonality as observed and understood by his contemporaries. Leopold’s Miserere is appealing above all because of its unusual instrumentation consisting exclusively of stringed instruments.

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