Handel: Brockes Passion, HWV 48 Keohane, Lunn, Zumsande, Carlson, Lyon, Elgersma, Bowen, Harvey, Jespersen, Concerto Copenhagen & Lars Ulrik Mortensen

• George Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759): Brockes Passion, HWV 48:
• 1Brockes Passion, HWV 48: Sinfonia02:44
• 2Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 1, Mich vom Stricke meiner Sünden zu entbinden04:30
• 3Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 2a, Als Jesus nun zu Tische saße00:28
• 4Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 2b, Das ist mein Leib01:09
• 5Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 3, Der Gott, dem alle Himmelskreise02:13
• 6Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 4a, Und bald hernach00:15
• 7Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 4b, Das ist mein Blut01:00
• 8Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 4c, Gott selbst, der Brunnquell alles Guten02:18
• 9Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 5, Ach, wie hungert mein Gemüte02:04
• 10Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 6a, Drauf sagten sie dem Höchsten Dank00:39
• 11Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 6b, Wir wollen alle eh' erblassen00:31
• 12Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 7a, Es ist gewiß00:10
• 13Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 7b, Weil ich den Hirten schlagen werde01:16
• 14Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 8a, Aufs wenigste will ich01:12
• 15Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 8b, Mein Vater01:39
• 16Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 8c, Mich drückt der Sünden Zentnerlast00:56
• 17Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 8d, Ist's möglich, daß dein Zorn sich stille01:41
• 18Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 9, Sünder, schaut mit Furcht und Zagen01:50
• 19Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 10a, Die Pein vermehrte sich01:02
• 20Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 10b, Brich, mein Herz06:18
• 21Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 11a, Ein Engel aber kam00:43
• 22Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 11b, Erwachet doch!01:25
• 23Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 12a, Und eh' die Rede noch geendigt war00:15
• 24Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 12b, Greift zu, schlagt tot!01:00
• 25Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 13a, Und der Verräter00:20
• 26Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 13b, Er soll uns nicht entlaufen00:28
• 27Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 14a, Nimm, Robbi00:19
• 28Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 14b, Gift und Glut01:46
• 29Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 15a, Steck nur das Schwert an seinen Ort01:29
• 30Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 15b, O weh!00:41
• 31Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 16a, Wo flieht ihr hin?00:46
• 32Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 16b, Nehmt micht mit04:30
• 33Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 17a, Und Jesus ward zum Palast01:23
• 34Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 17b, Was Bärentatzen, Löwenklauen03:22
• 35Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 18a, Dies sahe Petrus an01:22
• 36Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 18b, Ich will versinken und vergehn00:48
• 37Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 19a, Drauf krähete der Hahn01:18
• 38Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 19b, Heul, du Fluch der Menschenkinder02:42
• 39Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 20a, Doch wie?00:34
• 40Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 20b, Schau, ich fall' in strenger Buße02:34
• 41Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 21, Ach, Gott und Herr01:17
• 42Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 22a, Als Jesus nun01:09
• 43Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 22b, Er hat den Tod verdient00:11
• 44Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 23, Erwäg, ergrimmte Natternbrut05:09
• 45Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 24a, Die Nacht war kaum vorbei01:20
• 46Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 24b, Meine Laster sind die Stricke02:34
• 47Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 25a, O, was hab' ich verfluchter Mensch getan00:34
• 48Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 25b, Laßt diese Tat nicht ungerochen02:17
• 49Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 25c, Unsäglich ist mein Schmerz00:55
• 50Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 26, Die ihr Gottes Gnad01:50
• 51Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 27a, Wie nun Pilatus Jesum fragt00:20
• 52Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 27b, Bestrafe diesen Übeltäter00:13
• 53Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 28a, Hast du denn kein Gehör00:24
• 54Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 28b, Sprichst du denn02:45
• 55Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 29a, Pilatus wunderte sich sehr00:37
• 56Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 29b, Nein, diesen nicht, den Barrabas gibt frei00:19
• 57Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 29c, Was fang ich dann00:08
• 58Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 29d, Weg! Laß ihn kreuzigen00:10
• 59Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 29e, Was hat er denn getan?00:05
• 60Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 29f, Weg! Laß ihn kreuzigen"00:09
• 61Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 29g, Wie er nun sah00:15
• 62Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 30, Besinne dich, Pilatus01:38
• 63Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 31a, Drauf zerreten die Kriegsknecht' ihn hinein00:29
• 64Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 31b, Ich seh' an einen Stein gebunden01:37
• 65Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 32a, Drum, Seele01:50
• 66Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 32b, Dem Himmel gleicht sein buntgefärbter Rücken03:19
• 67Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 33a, Wie nun das Blut mit Strömen von ihm rann00:28
• 68Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 33b, Die Rosen krönen02:15
• 69Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 34a, Verwegner Dorn, barbar'sche Spitzen00:53
• 70Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 34b, Laß doch diese herbe Schmerzen03:38
• 71Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 35a, Die zarten Schläfen sind bis ans Gehirne00:47
• 72Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 35b, Jesu, dich mit unsern Seelen zu vermählen02:17
• 73Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 36a, Drauf beugten sie00:09
• 74Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 36b, Ein jeder sei ihm untertänig01:04
• 75Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 37a, Ja, scheueten sich nicht00:08
• 76Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 37b, Schäumest du, du Schaum der Welt01:38
• 77Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 38a, Worauf sie mit dem Rohr00:13
• 78Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 38b, Bestürzter Sünder00:58
• 79Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 38c, Heil der Welt04:06
• 80Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 39a, Wie man ihm nun genug00:35
• 81Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 39b, Eilt, ihr angefochtnen Seelen01:49
• 82Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 40a, Ach Gott!01:21
• 83Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 40b, Soll mein Kind, mein Leben sterben02:23
• 84Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 41a, Und er trug selbst sein Kreuz00:35
• 85Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 41b, Es scheint, da den zerkerbten Rücken01:44
• 86Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 42a, Wie sie nun an die Stätte00:31
• 87Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 42b, Hier erstarrt mein Herz und Blut01:30
• 88Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 42c, O Anblick, o entsetzliches Gesicht01:12
• 89Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 43, O Menschenkind, nur deine Sünd' hat dieses angerichtet00:40
• 90Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 44a, Sobald er nun gekreuzigt war00:33
• 91Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 44b, Pfui! Seht mir doch den König an00:31
• 92Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 45a, Und eine dicke Finsternis00:31
• 93Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 45b, Was Wunder02:18
• 94Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 46a, Dies war zur neunten Stund'01:11
• 95Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 46b, Mein Heiland, Herr und Fürst02:16
• 96Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 47a, Drauf lief ein Kriegsknecht hin00:35
• 97Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 47b, O Donnerwort! O schrecklich Schreien03:17
• 98Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 48a, O selig, wer dies glaubt00:30
• 99Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 48b, Sind meiner Seelen tiefe Wunden03:35
• 100Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 48c, O Großmut00:31
• 101Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 49, Brich, brüllender Abgrund03:15
• 102Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 50a, Ja, ja, es brüllet schon in unterird'schen Grüften01:29
• 103Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 50b, Wie kommt's, daß, da der Himmel weint02:08
• 104Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 51, Bei Jesus' Tod und Leiden01:32
• 105Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 52, Mein Sünd' mich werden kränken sehr01:00
• 106Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 53, Wisch ab der Tränen scharfe Lauge05:50
• 107Brockes Passion, HWV 48: No. 54, Ich bin ein Glied an deinem Leib01:23
• Total Runtime02:36:33

Info for Handel: Brockes Passion, HWV 48

The Concerto Copenhagen is Scandinavia’s most renowned Baroque ensemble and one of the most innovative such formations worldwide. Its trademarks are its unusual program combinations featuring Scandinavian rarities and famous Baroque masterpieces. This world-class orchestra now turns to Handel’s great Brockes-Passion in a CD recording based on the Halle edition of this composer’s works. The Passion text published by the well-to-do Hamburg resident Barthold Heinrich Brockes was a literary bestseller during the early eighteenth century. Composers set his poetic text, the first to add narrative elements to the Biblical Passion texts, more than thirty times. Today the best-known of these compositions is the one by George Frideric Handel, who set these verses to music in 1716, creating what would remain his only sacred work in German. Stylistically, however, the Brockes-Passion prefers to follow Italian models and speaks a musical language resembling that of the Baroque opera. Following concerts with this program, Die Welt enthusiastically summed up the result: »Mortensen’s elite forces from the original sound movement instinctively realize what their master and motivator wishes. […] One of the best early music ensembles paints a Baroque picture that richly displays magnificent color, suggests mystery, and repeatedly also is animated by dance. The method employed by Mortensen while modeling the music enables him to breathe new life into one of the most significant Passion oratorios composed prior to the later masterpieces by Bach.«

"Lars Ulrik Mortensen gets eager, alert playing from his trim band, while his solo team is uniformly strong...Peter Harvey is a sympathetic Jesus...no Handel lover who buys the excellent Mortensen recording will feel short-changed." (Gramophone Magazine)

Maria Keohane, soprano
Joanne Lunn, soprano
Hanna Zumsande, soprano
Daniel Carlsson, alto
Daniel Elgersma, alto
Ed Lyon, tenor
Gwilym Bowen, tenor
Peter Harvey, bass
Jakob Bloch Jespersen, bass
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen, conductor

Lars Ulrik Mortensen
(born 1955) studied at The Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen (harpsichord with Karen Englund, figured bass with Jesper Bøje Christensen) and with Trevor Pinnock in London. From 1988 to 1990 he was harpsichordist with London Baroque and until 1993 with Collegium Musicum 90 (leader: Simon Standage). He now works extensively as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe, the United States, Mexico, South America, China, Japan and Australia.

Between 1996 and 1999 Lars Ulrik Mortensen was professor for harpsichord and performance practice at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, and he now teaches at numerous Early Music courses throughout the world, i.e. at the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Juilliard School of Music in New York.

About 20 years ago, Lars Ulrik Mortensen began conducting “modern” orchestras in Sweden and Denmark, and especially his activities at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen - notably Kunzen’s “Holger Danske” in 2000 and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” in 2003 - met with great critical acclaim. However, in 2003 he made the decision to work exclusively with period instrument ensembles.

Since 1999, he has been artistic director of the Danish Baroque orchestra Concerto Copenhagen, and in 2004 he succeeded Roy Goodman as musical director of the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO). Additionally, Mortensen is increasingly working with several distinguished foreign ensembles like Holland Baroque, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Nederlandse Bachvereniging and Collegium 1704.

Concerto Copenhagen
As a young member of the World's most interesting and innovative Baroque orchestras, Concerto Copenhagen distinguishes itself by its original interpretations and a marked talent for communicating with the audience. CoCo recreates the vitality and presence of ancient music and brings it up to date.

In 1999, the internationally renowned Lars Ulrik Mortensen became artistic director of the ensemble. In recognition of his stature as one of the world's leading harpsichordists and chamber music players, he was awarded the coveted Léonie Sonning Prize in 2007. The encounter between Concerto Copenhagen and Mortensen was the prelude to an exciting artistic and musical journey, enabling the ensemble to combine a repertoire of well-known European music with less familiar works of Scandinavian and other origin.

Through the years Concerto Copenhagen has cooperated with many internationally renowned artists on the Early Music scene: Emma Kirkby, Andreas Scholl, Anne Sofie von Otter, Andrew Manze, Reinhard Goebel, Ronald Brautigam and Andrew Lawrence-King, who is the orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor.

Concerto Copenhagen's CD recordings for the German label cpo, for Deutsche Grammophon and for BIS have attracted international attention and won several prestigious prizes. This in turn has opened the doors to many of Europe's leading concert venues, guest appearances at top international festivals and tours in Europe, the USA, Japan and Australia. Foreign critics have placed CoCo in the first rank of international orchestras.

In Denmark, the prime partner is the Royal Theatre, where Concerto Copenhagen performs in about one opera a year. Recent productions include works by Monteverdi and Mozart as well as Handel's Xerxes, Giulio Cesare and Partenope, the latter two featuring the counter tenor Andreas Scholl in leading roles.

Concerto Copenhagen's concerts are recorded and broadcast by Danmarks Radio (DR) and by the EBU network in most parts of the world.

Booklet for Handel: Brockes Passion, HWV 48