Lazarus (Schubert)

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Lazarus or Die Feier der Auferstehung, D 689, is an unfinished 1820 oratorio by Franz Schubert on a libretto by August Hermann Niemeyer. Intended to be in three acts, only act 1 with twenty-one numbers, and eight numbers from act 2 are extant. [1]

Contents

Structure

The work is for three sopranos, two tenors, bass, mixed choir and orchestra.

Act 1

  1. Introduktion
  2. Hier laßt mich ruhn die letzte Stunde
  3. Noch einen Augenblick?
  4. Trübe nicht mit Klagen seine Seele
  5. Steh' im letzten Kampf dem Müden
  6. Voll Friede, ja, voll Fried' ist die Seele
  7. Kalter Schweiß rinnt von der Stirn
  8. Willkommen, mein Nathanael
  9. Wenn ich ihm nachgerungen habe
  10. Nathanael, bewundern kann ich dich
  11. O Martha, o Martha, bliebst du stiller
  12. Der Trost begleite dich hinüber
  13. Wenn nun mit tausendfachen Qualen
  14. Gottes Liebe, du bist deine Zuversicht
  15. In der Leiden bängster Nacht
  16. Ach, so find' ich ihn noch
  17. Jemina, Tochter der Auferstehung
  18. So schlummert auf Rosen
  19. Nun entflog auf schnellen Schwingen
  20. So war mir, Lazarus
  21. O Barmherziger, o verlass ihn nicht

Act 2

  1. Introduktion
  2. Wo bin ich?
  3. Schon bereitet ihr Gräber
  4. Wess ist der Klage Stimme
  5. So weile hier, mein Freund
  6. Sanft und still
  7. So legt ihn in die Blumen
  8. Wecke sie nicht

Roles

Recordings

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References

  1. ↑ Maurice J. E. Brown. 'Lazarus, or The Feast of Resurrection', in Essays on Schubert (1966), pp. 101-124
  2. ↑ The Gramophone – Volume 59, Issue 1, 1981: "Lazarus is an incomplete work by Schubert and Theodor Guschlbauer has recorded the work precisely as Schubert left it, ending at the very point where the master laid down his pen. A work of immense importance and content"
  3. ↑ Classic CD. 1996 – Issues 75–80 p. 165: "It was Rilling who instigated the completion of Schubert's Lazarus. And in doing so, Denisov has erected a new edifice without destroying the foundation. He develops Schubert's ideas leading to a contemporary, satisfying completion."
  4. ↑ Lazarus, Brilliant Classics 99969

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