Liszt: Christus / Rilling, Schade, Vermillion
Label: HANSSLER Catalog: CD98.121 Format: CD Andreas Schmidt (Baritone), Henriette Bonde-Hansen (Soprano), Iris Vermillion (Mezzo soprano), Michael Schade (Tenor) Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Gächinger Kantorei Choir, Cracow Chamber Choir, Helmuth RillingThe complete work was first performed on 29 May 1873 in the Protestant church in Weimar, under the direction of the composer and in the presence of, among others, Liszts daughter Cosima and her second husband, Richard Wagner. The performers numbered three hundered. During Liszt´s lifetime it was performed ten more times. But after 1914 it virtually disappeared from the repertoire. This recording will provide a start towards restoring an important oratorio to the rightful status which it occupied once before, at the turn of the 20th century. |