JOHANN WILHELM HERTEL (1727-1789): Der sterbende Heiland.

Description: Six months ago we had Hertel's Die Geburt Christi on this label with many of the same artists (12P023). Now the other end of the story, an 80-minute passion cantata from 1764, modeled on Graun's Der Tod Jesu in its simple chorales and elaborated choral fugues but with a baroque quality of tone-painting, strongly contrapuntal and unconventional harmonically. German-English texts. Berit Solset (soprano), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Andreas Wolf (bass-baritone), Kölner Akademie; Michael Alexander Willens.