Five centuries of choral music for Holy Week and Eastertide
The cross is a sign of highly diverse emotions: It reflects deep sadness and despair, but at the same time also hope, confidence and comfort to joyous exultation at the miracle of the resurrection. The Vienna Chamber Choir under the direction of Michael Grohotolsky approaches this wide diversity in his CD O crux in a fascinating way: Interpreted extremely sensitively, he forges a bridge from the Renaissance to the present day with paschal choral music covering the complete range of expression. World famous works resound, for example, Anton Bruckner’s Christus factus est and Antonio Lotti’s eight-voice Crucifixus; but also exciting new discoveries, for instance works by Fernando Sor, Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken and Charles Valentin Alkan as well as powerful contemporary choral compositions can be heard. This is a jewel of a CD for all aficionados of expressive sacred choral music.