Sulamith (Cantata) & Kreis des Lebens (Oratorio)

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Label
CPO
Release Date
January 30, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Jan van Gilse
    • PERFORMER
      Groot Omroepkoor, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, James Gaffigan, Stanislav Kochanovsky
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 30, 2026
    • UPC
      761203564828
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555648-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Sulamith

      Composer: Jan van Gilse

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Sumi Hwang, Denzil Delaere, Thomas Oliemans

      Conductor: Stanislav Kochanovsky

    2. Allegro moderato: Das ist die Sehnsucht

      Composer: Jan van Gilse

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Elena Tsallagova, Benjamin Bruns

      Conductor: James Gaffigan

    3. Ruhig fließend, im Charakter einer Hymne: Unsere Träume

      Composer: Jan van Gilse

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Elena Tsallagova, Benjamin Bruns

      Conductor: James Gaffigan

    4. Ziemlich langsam: Herr, es ist Zeit

      Composer: Jan van Gilse

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Elena Tsallagova, Benjamin Bruns

      Conductor: James Gaffigan

    5. Wuchtig und schwer: Der Tod ist groß

      Composer: Jan van Gilse

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Elena Tsallagova, Benjamin Bruns

      Conductor: James Gaffigan


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 Sch�naich-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.