A revived passion

All The Muffati has made a specialty of seeking rare manuscripts and quality, representative of what Baroque music has produced better and having fallen into almost total oblivion since. Associated here with the choirs of Namur Vox Luminis, they give us to discover a great passion of Reinhard Keiser, who was one of the leading composers working in the city of Hamburg between the end of XVII and the first quarter of the eighteenth centuries.

Keiser was many an opera composer and this probably explains found in his musical setting of the Passion written text by Brockes, a bourgeois Hamburg keen on culture as much locally important political man, an approach that often evokes the opera by its drama.

Like Bach, here we find a narrator explains the action, located in time and gave the floor to key stakeholders. If the musical means are not those of Bach, far from it, the fact remains that Keiser known to produce beautiful music, essential and often touching in the style of a Bach or Handel but very lighter and a little more rustic.

Side interpretation, nothing to say. Each singer takes its role without any excess, accompanied as well by an excellent choir of a very good orchestra. Bravo to the chef who realizes there a superb job of general equilibrium.

A beautiful drive which should delight all lovers of baroque music!