Collegium Vocale Gent/ Orch Des Champs-Elysees - Beethoven: Christus Am Olberge Fulfilled By AEC Gorky Park

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Booklet text and essay by Stanley Ritchie presented in English

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" In 1966 Fritz Pauer won a prize in the jazz competition Gulda had initiated and so Gulda decided to include this work in the Heidelberg concert from 1971

Collegium Vocale Gent/ Orch Des Champs-Elysees - Beethoven: Christus Am Olberge Fulfilled By AEC Gorky ParkBeethoven composed the oratorio Christus am lberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives) in just 'a fortnight, amid all sorts of tumult and other unpleasant and alarming events in my life'. It marked the first time since the two 'imperial cantatas' of 1790, the Cantata on the Death of the Emperor Joseph II WoO 87 and the Cantata on the Accession of Leopold II WoO 88, that he had embarked on a multi movement vocal work. Christus am lberge was also