Christus am Ölberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives)/1a: Introduktion

'A truly Catholic oratorio…We see how the composer captured in the entire work everything that the librettist had sketched even the most cursorily, and endowed it with life and veracity. Foremost among the results of this laudable congeniality are the warmth, freshness, power and breadth which cannot help but affecting everyone who hears the work performed in a dignified manner and who… will allow themselves to be moved and excited by the art of the poetry and the music' (Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, 1812). Soloists Maria Venuti, soprano (Seraph), Keith Lewis, tenor (Jesus) and Michel Brodard, bass (Petrus).
Gramophone: outstanding: 'Beautiful quality of voice, fine singing'.