Golgotha, Oratorio in two parts based on the gospels and texts according to Augustinus (Deutsch), for 5 vocal soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ and orchestra, Choral score

ISMN: 979-0-008-05658-1

For me, Golgotha was a unique event in my life as a composer. The decision to write the composition did not come from a deliberate choice [of material] like Rilke's Cornet or Shakespeare's Tempest, for instance. Everything, it seemed to me, forbade it, especially a true cult-worship which I had devoted since childhood (up to the present day) to J. S. Bach's Matthew Passion - but perhaps it was even more so the fact that I felt myself unworthy - utterly, completely unworthy - of treating such a topic. Nothing and no one had ever challenged me to do it. But something was called for, something I felt like a calling, and at first I strove against that call with everything I had. But the call was stronger than my resistance, and so I sat down to work ? (Letter from Frank Martin to Willy Fotsch, February 1970)The great success of Golgotha's premiere has not waned in the meanwhile

CONTENIDO:

1. Teil
No. 1 · 1. Teil
No. 2: Das Psalmfest · 1. Teil
No. 3: Der Disput im Tempel · 1. Teil
No. 4: Das heilige Abendmahl · 1. Teil
No. 5: Gethsemane · 2. Teil
No. 6 · 2. Teil
No. 7: Jesus vor dem Hohen Rat · 2. Teil
No. 8: Jesus vor Pilatus · 2. Teil
No. 9: Kalvaria · 2. Teil
No. 10