JOSEPH HAYDN Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (orchestral version) Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi

Following an acclaimed disc of cello concertos and symphonies by C. P. E. Bach, the musicians of the Ensemble Resonanz continue their exploration of eighteenth-century orchestral music. For several years now, under the direction of its inspired conductor Maestro Riccardo Minasi, the ensemble has taken up the challenge of playing contemporary instruments with complete mastery of historically informed performance practice. Forty years after what has been called ‘the Baroque revolution’, what a pleasure to rediscover these nine orchestral movements literally inhabited by the last words of Christ on the cross – and displaying that rhetorical skill of which Joseph Haydn was a peerless exponent!