Various - Johann David Heinichen: Two Passion Oratorios

The Passion music Johann David Heinichen wrote for the Dresden court is a document of cultural and confessional openness of the Saxon residence, and his two Italian oratorios heard here are surrogates of large-scale Passion music. Come? S'imbruna il ciel - composed in 1728 - is the latest of the sepolcri, his other Passion L'aride tempie ignude the first of the sepolcri to survive from Heinichen in Dresden. Both texts are by Stefano Pallavicino, who had been active at the Dresden