Lazarus (Schubert)

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.

Structure

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

Act 1

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

Act 2

Introduktion
Wo bin ich?
Schon bereitet ihr Gräber
Wess ist der Klage Stimme
So weile hier, mein Freund
Sanft und still
So legt ihn in die Blumen
Wecke sie nicht

Roles

Maria (soprano)
Martha (soprano)
Jemina (soprano)
Lazarus (tenor)
Nathanael (tenor)
Ein Jüngling (tenor)
Simon Peter (bass)

Recordings

1978 – Carola Nossek, Ursula Reinhardt-Kiss, Ingeborg Springer, Eberhard Büchner, Horit Gebhardt. Staatskapelle Berlin Dietrich Knothe recorded in the Christuskirche, Berlin Berlin Classics 94452BC; reissued 1 CD Brilliant Classics
1981 – (also Mass No. 2 in G, D 167), Theodor Guschlbauer[1] Warner Apex 2008
1983 – Edith Mathis, Wulkopf, Schwarz, Hollweg, Laubenthal, Hermann Prey conducted Gabriel Chmura, Orfeo 2LP
1996 – completed by Edison Denisov. Rubens, Nylund, Nold, Weir. Bach Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling Hanssler 1996,[2] also reissued 2 CD Brilliant Classics 99969[3]
1997 – Concentus Musicus Wien, Dorothea Röschmann, soprano; Ľuba Orgonášová, soprano; Elisabeth von Magnus, mezzo-soprano; Herbert Lippert, tenor; Reinaldo Macias, tenor; Raimund Nolte, baritone. Arnold Schoenberg Choir, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt Classics
2013 – Sarah Wegener, Johanna Winkel, Sophie Harmsen, Andreas Weller, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius 1CD Carus

References

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"
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."
Lazarus, Brilliant Classics 99969

Sources

New Schubert Edition, Series II: Stage Works, Vol.10 – Lazarus oder die Feier der Auferstehung D 689: Fragment eines religiösen Dramas in 3 Akten. Edited by Reinhold Kubik. 1987. ISMN 9790006472215

External links

Lazarus, D 689: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

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[1] 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"

[2] 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."

[3] Lazarus, Brilliant Classics 99969