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    Sulamith (Cantata) & Kreis des Lebens (Oratorio)
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    Sulamith (Cantata) & Kreis des Lebens (Oratorio)

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    $18.99
    Composer
    Jan van Gilse
    Artist
    Groot Omroepkoor, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, James Gaffigan, Stanislav Kochanovsky
    Released
    Jan 30, 2026
    When Jan van Gilse completed his studies in Cologne in 1902, he devoted himself to his prizewinning First Symphony along with a dramatic scene based on the prose poem Sulamith by Prince Erich von Schönaich-Carolath, in which Satan realises that there is still love on earth despite his machinations. Judging by his impressive music, this must have been the innermost conviction of the composer, who never found it easy in his life to bridge the gap between his German education and the prevailing taste of his fellow countrymen. Combative and vulnerable, quick-tempered and desperate, he strove for a truth that few heard - a loner even when, in 1929, he wrote the poignant Kreis des Lebens (Circle of Life) after Rainer Maria Rilke, which had had to wait for a hundred years to receive an adequate performance and deserved recognition. Now it has arrived.
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  • Sulamith (Cantata) & Kreis des Lebens (Oratorio)

    Sulamith (Cantata) & Kreis des Lebens (Oratorio)

    CPO Jan 2026
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
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