Herzogenberg: Messe e-moll op.87

For a long time, Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843-1900) was hardly noticed by general musical life or musicology as a minor master in the shadow of Brahms. Although his name can be found as a marginal phenomenon in biographies and music encyclopaedias, little is known about him beyond his outward dates, whose musical oeuvre comprises over 15O works of all major genres Another case for cpo! Happy circumstances brought several oratorical works of Herzogenberg to light in an archive of Herzogenberg's estate between 1994 and 1996, which had previously been considered war losses. Among them were also the score and the material of the Mass op. 87, which we are now documenting in a first recording. It is dedicated to the memory of Philipp Spitta, whose death in 1894 was one of the most tragic moments in Herzogenberg's life As a close friend of Brahms, he was "of course" regarded as a Brahms epigone. Listen to this mass: You won't find any Brahms echoes! For it touching, deeply felt, great romantic music Under the direction of Ralph Otto, Barbara Fleckenstein, Bärbel Müller, Rodrigo Orrego, Frederick Martin and the Bach Choir Mainz sing. The Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz plays A real discovery, subsequent excavations are planned!