{"product_id":"099925420420","title":"Richter: La Deposizione dalla croce …2 CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 2-CD set presents Franz Xaver Richter’s passion oratorio La Deposizione dalla croce di Gesu Cristo Salvator nostro, or The Deposition from the Cross of Jesus Christ, Our Saviour, composed in 1748 to a libretto by Giovanni Claudio Pasquini. The recording features Kateřina Kněžíková as Maddalena, Jaroslav Březina as Giuseppe d’Arimatea, Philippe Mathmann as Giovanni, Piotr Olech as Simone and Lenka Cafourková Ďuricová as Nicodemno, with Czech Ensemble Baroque and conductor Roman Válek. When Richter became a member of the famous Mannheim orchestra in 1746, he found himself at the centre of the progressive musical developments of eighteenth-century Europe, where a new era was taking shape. He nevertheless retained the traditional Baroque craft, and when he received Pasquini’s most successful oratorio libretto, he set it in his unmistakable style, combining Baroque compositional principles, including Fuxian contrapuntal choruses, with the innovations of the emerging Classical period. Richter used a revised 1744 version of the libretto prepared for J. A. Hasse. His only Italian oratorio is a Good Friday meditation by Jesus’s disciples on the boundlessness of God’s love and Christ’s suffering on the cross. It was probably performed for the first and last time on Good Friday 1748 in the Mannheim court church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary. This recording by Czech Ensemble Baroque is the world premiere of F. X. Richter’s only Italian oratorio and another contribution to the exploration of his remarkable, largely unknown work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Supraphon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54025614983515,"sku":"099925420420","price":42.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1787\/2513\/files\/0271533.jpg?v=1789065889","url":"https:\/\/czechmovie.com\/products\/099925420420","provider":"czechmovie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}