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Though forgotten today, “Der Tod Jesu,” an oratorio by Carl Heinrich Graun (a major Baroque composer and an ancestor of Vladimir Nabokov), was the most popular German Passion work of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—surpassing even those of Bach. Gwendolyn Toth’s excellent group, in residence at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, offers a selection of solos and duets from the piece sung by Jessica Tranzillo, Sofia Dimitrova, Juli Borst, Michael Reid, Philip Anderson, and Gary Dimon. (135 W. 31st St.)