Zelenka - I penitenti al sepolcro del redentore, ZWV 63. {Autograph score + 4k HD}

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The autograph of the Oratorio "I Penitenti al Sepolcro del Redentore", in English: "The penitents at the tomb of the redeemer", ZWV 63 by Jan Dismas Zelenka.
This work was commissioned and first composed for a performance on Good Friday, March 30 1736, for his employer Augustus III, in Dresden.
The text, written by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicini, combines the Old and New Testaments, by depicting an imaginary meeting between King David, Mary Magdalene and Peter at Christ's tomb. The work departing from the usual canon of a setting of the text of one of the Gospels, being instead a poem focusing on the meaning of Christ's sacrifice, is unusual in this aspect.

The work was well received, a contemporary diary from the Dresden Jesuits reporting that on the date in question, "at 8 pm a very elegant new oratorio composed by Zelenka titled I Penitenti al Sepolcro was heard, and for this, candles were placed in the choir." It is also possible that the oratorio was repeated three years later, when the Jesuits again write that Zelenka was the composer of oratorios heard on Good Friday and on Holy Saturday, although there is more certainty that it was again played in Prague in 1738, a performance made possible through the intervention of Zelenka's patron, Jan Hubert Hartig.

I: Sinfonia, Adagio, Allegro (Fugue), Adagio - 00:00
II: Squarcia le chiome (King David, Tenor) - 8:06
III: Tramontata è la Stella (King David, Tenor) - 17:56
IV: Oime, quasi nel campo (Mary Magdalene, Alto) - 18:56
V: Del mio amor, divini aguardi (Mary Magdalene, Alto) - 20:15
VI: Qual la dispersa greggia (Peter, Bass) - 29:32
VII: Lingua perfida (Peter, Bass) - 30:42
VIII: Per la traccia del sangue (Mary Magdalene, Alto) - 36:36
IX: Da vivo tronco aperto (Mary Magdalene, Alto) - 37:30
X: Questa che fu possente (King David, Tenor) - 48:13
XI: Le tue corde, arpe sonora (King David, Tenor) - 49:38
XII: Tributo aceto piu (Peter, Bass) - 59:33
XIII: Al divin nostro amante (Mary Magdalene, Alto) - 1:00:14
XIV: Qual Io soleva (King David, Tenor) - 1:00:57
XV: Miserere mo Dio (Chorus, FINALE) - 1:01:46

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