{"id":10865,"date":"2023-10-09T00:27:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T00:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aam.co.uk\/oxygen\/?post_type=product&#038;p=10865"},"modified":"2025-03-14T16:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:19:57","slug":"handel-brockes-passion","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/aam.co.uk\/new\/product\/handel-brockes-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Handel: Brockes-Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u2018<em>A gruesomely graphic work to break Bach\u2019s monopoly\u2026 Full marks to the Academy of Ancient Music for coming forward with the rarely performed Brockes Passion\u2026<\/em>\u2019 Financial Times<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This album is perhaps the most definitive guide to this astonishing work yet published, celebrating the 300<span style=\"font-size: 11.666666px\">th<\/span> anniversary of Handel\u2019s great Brockes-Passion: a long-neglected masterpiece by this most brilliant composer, from a libretto by his friend, one of Germany\u2019s leading poets.<\/p>\n<p>The culmination of two years of scholarly research by a team of scholars and musicologists from the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, King\u2019s College London, Open University and more, working alongside Music Director Richard Egarr and editor Leo Duarte. Consulting 15 manuscript sources from 11 collections in 5 countries, this is the most substantial edition of this work yet, including as appendices extra movements and Charles Jennens\u2019 partial English translation in their world premiere recordings.<\/p>\n<p>A deluxe 220-page album booklet accompanies this release, featuring new contemporary artworks inspired by Handel\u2019s Brockes-Passion, full notes, the first contemporary publication of the original Kurrentschrift text alongside the modern German libretto, a brand new English translation, several additional articles, details of other composers\u2019 takes on Brockes\u2019 visceral libretto, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Academy of Ancient Music recorded this new release around a 300<span style=\"font-size: 11.666666px\">th<\/span>\u00a0anniversary performance on Good Friday 2019 at London\u2019s Barbican Hall.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Handel - &#039;Brich, mein Herz&#039; from Brockes Passion | AAM\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l9kgpo59EuY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The AAM soloists and instrumentalists communicated the musical drama and feeling with compelling commitment and power<\/em>.\u201d - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operatoday.com\/content\/2019\/04\/handels_brockes.php\">Opera Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Handel\u2019s Passion\u2026 has an earthiness, an urgency to its telling.. With a recording from the same forces shortly to be released and [Leo] Duarte\u2019s edition as a jumping-off point, will further performances follow? I certainly hope so<\/em>.\u201d - <a href=\"https:\/\/theartsdesk.com\/classical-music\/brockes-passion-aam-egarr-barbican-review-fleshly-handel-our-earthbound-times\">The Arts Desk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Released 4 October 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academy of Ancient Music<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Richard Egarr<\/strong><em> director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Robert Murray | Cody Quattlebaum | Elizabeth Watts | Ruby Hughes | Tim Mead | Gwilym Bowen | Nicky Spence<\/p>\n<p>3 CD set with hardback book<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 \u2013 BBC Music Magazine<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10899,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[32],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-10865","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-cd","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Handel: Brockes-Passion &#8211; 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