by Franz Schmidt
This week on Choral Showcase, music for troubled times by Austrian composer Franz Schmidt, written in 1937: The Book with Seven Seals. Kristjan Jarvi conducts.
Show Notes
Franz Schmidt: The Book with Seven Seals (from the Revelation of St. John the Divine)
- Johannes Chum, tenor (St. John); Robert Holl, bass-baritone (Voice of the Lord); Sandra Trattnig, soprano; Michelle Breedt, mezzo-soprano; Nikolai Schukoff, tenor; Manfred Hemm, bass
- Robert Kovacs, organ
- Vienna Singverein
- Tonkunstler Orchestra of Lower Austria
- Kristjan Jarvi, conductor