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Jesus, tortured and dying for the sins of the world This is how the Hamburg librettist and senator Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680-1747) titled his dramatic adaptation of the Passion narrative-a text so popular that it was set to music nearly a dozen times in Hamburg alone. Composers included Reinhard Keiser, Johann Mattheson, George Frideric Handel, and Georg Philipp Telemann, among others. The jurist and diplomat Jacob Schuback (1726-1784) also composed his version of this so-called Brockes-Passion. And one must not assume that he, the son of a highly respected family, was merely a dilettante in the art of music. What Schuback created around the age of 30 during his musical Inchleisure hoursInch is, in the truest sense of the word, a gripping work. Choruses, recitatives, and arias follow one another with an almost operatic intensity, while characters imbued with vivid reality come to life with striking immediacy. Unsurprisingly, this Passion acquires a more profound, secondary significance Album Tracks 1. Brockes-Passion~1. Chor gläubiger Seelen Mich vom Stricke meiner Sünden zu entbinden 2. Brockes-Passion~2. Rezitativ und Accompagnato Als Jesus nun zu Tische saß 3. Brockes-Passion~3. Arie Der Gott, dem alle Himmelskreise 4. Brockes-Passion~4. Rezitativ und Accompagnato Und bald hernach 5. Brockes-Passion~5. Arie Gott selbst, die Brunnquell alles Guten 6. Brockes-Passion~6. Choral Ach wie hungert mein Gemüte 7. Brockes-Passion~7. Rezitativ Drauf sagten sie dem Höchsten Danck 8. Brockes-Passion~8. Chor der Jünger Wir alle wollen eh' erblassen 9. Brockes-Passion~9. Rezitativ und Arioso Es ist gewiß, denn also steht geschrieben 10. Brockes-Passion~10. Accompagnato und Arioso Verziehet hier! Ich will zu meinem Vater treten 11. Brockes-Passion~11. Arie Sünder, schaut mit Furcht und Zagen 12. Brockes-Passion~12. Accompagnato Die P
