Hans Gál: De Profundis – two upcoming performances and a recording

[Wheesht]

Hans Gál's large-scale cantata De Profundis Op. 50, for four soloists, mixed choir and orchestra, will be performed twice in the autumn, in Leipzig in September, and in Heidelberg in November.
The Hans Gál website announces these concerts under News and mentions that a recording is planned on CPO. I for one will be delighted to add this to my copy of the 1987 archival recording by the BBC Singers/BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Simon Joly.

[Droosbury]

That's great news indeed, Weesht: thanks for letting us know. It's high time this marvellous piece got a commercial recording. If interested, there's a very good 1988 performance from Vienna on YouTube (soloists, Arnold-Schoenberg-Chor, Wiener Symphoniker / Peter Gülke):

https://youtu.be/EvXhVGf6nlE?si=bRrqP0lMUsoPNd-y

[Wheesht]

A recording of the performance of the (very well received) Leipzig production on 19 September will be broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on Sunday, 22 November, at 20.00 CET and will presumably be available to listen to later:

20:00 Uhr
Konzert
Gewandhaus Leipzig
Aufzeichnung vom 19.09.2026

Hans Gál
,,De profundis" Kantate für Soli, gemischten Chor und Orchester
Textdichter: Andreas Gryphius, Paul Fleming, Johann Wilhelm Albert, Friedrich von Logau und Ulrich von Brandenburg

Cathrin Lange, Sopran
Henriette Gödde, Alt
Tobias Hunger, Tenor
Simon Robinson, Bass
Jugendchor des Clara-Wieck-Gymnasiums Zwickau
GewandhausChor Leipzig
Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz
Leitung: Gregor Meyer

[tuatara442442]

Thanks for noticing us, Wheesht. I will be prepared to download the broadcast.