Fasch was short-listed for one of Germany's most prestigious cantorships in Leipzig but declined the offer because he could not teach Latin.
Performer Biography
The Capella Savaria Baroque Orchestra, which performs on original 18th-century instruments, has won Record of the Year status in Hungary on five occasions.
Compositional Technique
Fasch's Passio Jesu Christi includes five chorales and two arias not found in the original Brockes libretto, giving it a more conventional structure for 18th-century German liturgical Passions.
Performer Biography
Mary Térey-Smith, the conductor, studied with notable figures like János Ferencsik, János Viski, Zoltán Kodály, and Bence Szabolcsi at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest.
Composition History
The Passio Jesu Christi, a Passion oratorio by Fasch, uses a shortened version of a famous libretto by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, which was also set by Handel, Telemann, and Mattheson.
Composer Biography
Johann Friedrich Fasch, the composer, founded a collegium musicum in Leipzig that is now considered the ancestor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra.
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