FULL GETSEMANI Oratorio (José Antonio Esteban Usano) Cuenca 2017 Carlos Alcocer, Carlos Lozano, Luís Huélamo

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Getsmani  
• Composer: Usano José Antonio Esteban  
• Libretto:
• Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Auditorio de Cuenca, Spain  
• Recorded: April 1, 2017
• Type: Concert Semi-staged
• Singers: Carlos Alcocer, Carlos Lozano, Luís Huélamo, Rafael Núñez
• Conductor: Alberto Cubero  
• Orchestra: Orquesta Ciudad de Música  
• Chorus: Escolanía y Orfeón Ciudad de Cuenca  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: CUENCACIUDADMUSICA  
• Date Published: 2020  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  ‘Gethsemane’ tells with music the events that happened in the Garden of Olives prior to the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ until the very moment of the betrayal of Judas and the capture of the Messiah.

  This work is an attempt to update, through contemporary language, religious oratorio, a musical form whose golden age took place in the Baroque, especially German and Italian.

  Through various scenes, the prayers, fears and sufferings of Jesus and his disciples in that dramatic hour are narrated, each element of the vocal and instrumental device taking on the role of one of the protagonists: the choirs are, at the same time, expression of collective impressions and figuration of the mob; the solo singers see themselves in the shoes of key characters like Jesus or Judas; and the orchestra perfectly embodies the emotional and even physical framework of the story told.

  ‘Gethsemane’ follows the trail inaugurated last year 2016, when the concert series was inaugurated in the Lent period with a commission and premiere of the work ‘Vía Crucis’ by José Miguel Moreno Sabio.

  Carlos Lozano, artistic director of Cuenca City of Music, states that “we want to create a musical heritage, made up of works commissioned from different composers from Cuenca or closely related to our city, with a theme closely identified with the feeling of Cuenca in this liturgical time of Lent and Holy Week itself. This year it has been planned to put to music within a Great Choral Symphonic Oratory, the scenes of the Garden of Olives, with a very special nod to the Procession of Silence on Holy Wednesday. This desire would not be complete if it were not complemented by the preparation, interpretation and recording of the work, in an authentic production made in Cuenca.”

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