Halleluja! from Messiah - Choir of St Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin, late 1930s

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Halleluja! Halleluja! - Chor aus „Der Messias” (Georg Friedrich Händel) - Chor der St.Hedwigs-Kathedrale und Mitglieder des Orchesters der Städtlischen Oper Berlin, Leitung: Dr. Karl Forster [Choir of the Berlin Cathedral of St. Hedwig acc. by Orchestra of the City Opera, Berlin] Telefunken, c. late 1930s (Germany)
NOTE: This record has special significance to me, for St. Hedwig’s Cathedral in Berlin - being the major Roman Catholic church in the city of Berlin - is the place, where in 1912 my Mother was baptized. My grandfather’s family - before his decision to leave Germany and go to Poland shortly after the 1st WW - had their parish church just there - in the St.Hedwig’s grandiose cathedral, which before its total destruction during the air raids in 1943 - was one of the most elegant buildings in the Kaiser Friedrich’s central Berlin. Built in the end of the 18th Century from the funds predominantly risen by the Polish minority in the Prussian Empire, the church was lovingly frequented by many Poles living in Berlin, therefore it’s patroness was St. Hedwig - the patroness of Upper Silesia, from where many Polish immigrant workers arrived to Germany during the whole 19th century.
In the interwar period, history of the Cathedral has been significantly marked in the 1930s, when the NSDAP party ruled in Germany and the provost of the cathedral was rev. Bernhard Lichtenberg. In 1938, after Kristallnacht - the first organized Nazi pogrom in Germany - Lichtenberg would pray publicly for the Jews at Vespers services. In later months and years he continued to publicly protest against the euthanasia program of killing the terminally or mentally ill. At first, he was dismissed as a nuisance, but when he continued his activities, deploring the persecution of the Jews and other minorities in Germany and accusing regime for construction of the concentration camps, he was arrested in 1943 and sent to Dachau, yet he died during the transport. His braveness and determination to fight for respecting the God’s Laws in terrible times, when any law had been violated and ridiculed, saves the good name of the German clergy, who not often during years of the Nazi regime, knew how to rise to the heights of heroism like that. In 1996 Father Bernard Lichtenberg has been beatified by John Paul II.
In the 1990s, during my stay at the University of Iowa, one day, in the University Library I came across a little book of poetry by Gregory Corso, who was in the 1960s one of prominent figures of the bitniks cultural and social movement in the US. To my utmost astonishment, among many poems which had not much to do with the German history or the religious life in Europe, I suddenly found a warm and deep poem about the bombardment and destruction of St.Hedwig’s cathedral in Berlin during the war time, and the massacre of people who were hiding there with their provost...
I think, all that is enough to justify my choice of this recording and this church as a hero of this Resurrection movie... This film also presents several masterpieces from the Resurrection-themed treasures of the German painting.
HAPPY EASTER to all of you, again!!!

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@rogerswinsburg8578 7 ай бұрын

I love this slower tempo!. It is very majestic! It is now my preferred tempo of this piece

@OlgaNovakauskiene 9 жыл бұрын

*Halleluja* aus *der Messias* Geoeg Friedrich Haendel Thank you . Happy Sunday .

@tango3721 9 жыл бұрын

On this sunny, early spring Sunday in hilly vicinity of New York - I and the friends who are fans of this channel - wish you - Grzegorz - a Happy Easter and of course - all the Jewish friends who are loyal to this channel - have our wishes for a Happy Passover 2015! All of us - especially you - Grzeborz - will have a very good new week. Thanks for the vid - the visual and the musical selection - top notch!

@240252 9 жыл бұрын

Hello Lana, the Easter is almost over tonight, but my best wishes for you and for all the friends you're writing about are even warmer. I am glad to have so many faithful visitors to this channel. That makes the whole You Tube idea alive and makes me want to continue this work as long as I will have enough old records to upoload them and to share them here with you . Best wishes, once again!

@dzhegertwo4520 9 жыл бұрын

Inspirational music and fine images of the Resurrection. Happy Easter G and everybody.

@240252 9 жыл бұрын

Dear David! So good to see you with us again!!! - although, hidden behind a new nick. Welcome! I will write more in the email. Take care and Happy rest of the Easter!