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2024-04-23 18:31:21
I set aside some time this Good Friday to listen to the complete St. John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Besides being fitting music for that day of the Holy Week, this year marks the 300th anniversary of the work. In Christian music, a Passion is a setting of the Passion of Christ (i.e. the short final period before the death of Jesus, described in the four canonical gospels and commemorated in Christianity every year during Holy Week). The […] The post appeared first on Serenade.
2024-04-11 06:53:00
A little bit of magic: Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories sung one to a part at the original pitch by I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth
Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories; I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth; COROReviewed 9 April 2024Just one voice to a part, just intonation and a wonderfully expressive approach to line, all combined with lovely poise to make this disc a little bit of magic.Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories are completely wonderful and few choristers can be entirely ignorant of them, most ensembles attempt some of them at some time. Usually performed in modern editions for standard SATB at a pitch that makes them work, they were intended for a rather different line up using either low-soprano, high-tenor, baritone and bass or two sopranos, high-tenor and baritone. And almost certainly with only one voice to a part, sung a four lower than written according to the conventions used at the time.This original arrangement has rarely made it onto disc. Famously the music was recorded at high pitch, without the expected transposition, by the choir of Westminster Cathedral in the […]
2024-04-02 16:24:00
St Matthew Passion, Deutsche Oper, 29 March 2024
Evangelist – Kieran Carrel Jesus – Padraic Rowan Bass – Joel Allison Tenor, False Witness – Kangyoon Shine Lee Petrus, High Priest, Pontifex II – Youngkwang Oh Pilatus, Judas, Pontifex I – Artur Garbas Soprano, First Maid – Siobhan Stagg Alto, False Witness, Second Maid – Annika Schlicht Girl – Zoé Höchse Friend – Selina Nüsse Director – Benedikt von PeterRevival directors – Eva-Maria Abelein, Matteo Marziano GrazianoSet designs – Natascha von SteigerCostumes – Lene SchwindVideo – Bert ZanderLighting – Roland EdrichDramaturgy – Dorothea HartmannChildren’s and Youth Choirs of the Deutsche Oper (director: Christian Lindhorst)Youth Choir of the Staatsoper Unter den LindenChildren’s Choir of the Aalto-Theatre, Essen (director: Patrik Jaskolka)Chorus of the Deutsche Oper (director: Jeremy Bines)Orchestra of the Deutsche OperAlessandro De Marchi (conductor)Images: Marcus Lieberenz Had someone told me I should be attending performances of the two Bach Passions on consecutive evenings, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, in Leipzig […]
2024-03-28 14:00:04
Verdi Requiem
The first of two Requiem broadcasts this Holy Week:Myung-Whun Chung conducts Angela Meade, Annalisa Stroppa, Fabio Sartori and Riccardo Zanellato in a live broadcast from Venice The post appeared first on parterre box.
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