PURCELL CHOIR & ORFEO ORCHESTRA Presented by Liszt Academy

The evening offers an 18th century German pasticcio, or more precisely, a pasticcio Passion, and what’s more, a premiere in Hungary, in a performance by the most ambitious early music formation, in other words, the two ensembles of György Vashegyi, Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra. The church music ‘potpourri’ compiled around 1750 includes Johann Sebastian Bach’s music in its three movements as well as compositions by Carl Heinrich Graun and Georg Philipp Telemann. The only extant manuscript of Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt, which has served as the subject of extensive musicological research and the starting point of audacious theories for many decades, is preserved in the collection of the Berlin State Library: the performance by the György Vashegyi ensembles is based on this priceless document of music history.