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2023-08-30 09:54:00
Salzburg Festival (7) - The Greek Passion, 22 August 2023
FelsenreitschuleGrigoris - Gábor BretzManolios - Sebastian KohlheppKaterina - Sara JakubiakYannakos - Charles WorkmanLenio - Christina GanschAndonis - Matteo Ivan RašićMichelis - Matthäus SchmidlechnerKostandis - Alejandro Baliñas VietesPanais - Julian HubbardNikolio - Aljoscha LennertOld Woman - Helena ReskerThe Patriarcheas - Luke StokerLadas - Robert DölleFotis - Łukasz GolińskiOld Man - Scott WildeDespinio - Teona Todua Director - Simon StoneSet designs - Lizzie ClachanCostumes - Mel PageLighting - Nick SchlieperDramaturgy - Christian ArseniConcert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus (chorus director: Huw Rhys James)Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children’s Choir (chorus director: Wolfgang Götz)Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna PhilharmonicVienna Philharmonic OrchestraMaxime Pascal (conductor)Images: © SF/Monika RittershausSalzburg’s new production of Bohuslav Martinů‘s opera The Greek Passion has much going for it, but alas one major thing against, at least for me. The latter I shall come to, but let us first consider the positives. The theme of the opera and Nikos Kazantzakis’s […]
2022-04-17 22:59:15
J.S. Bach: St. Matthäus-Passion Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon Harmonia Mundi 2xCD J.S. Bach: St. John Passion English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Deutsche Grammophon 2XCD The Bach Passions are a staple of the choral repertoire for Holy Week, and there are a number of fine recordings of them. There’s room for […]
2020-05-08 11:03:00
There is more than one War Requiem
Eleven young choristers from the famous Kreuzchor were among more than 25,000 who died in the British and American bombing of Dresden on February 13th 1945. As well as this terrible human loss the famous choir also lost its its Neo-Gothic choir school on the Georgplatz, its library of sheet music and archive, and its very raison d'être, the beautiful Kreuzkirche (Church of the Holy Cross) which dated from the 13th century. The history of the Kreuzchor dates back to the 14th century, and its reputation grew through the Reformation and into the 20th century. In 1932 Rudolf Mauersberger was appointed cantor, and the choir's reputation spread through its acclaimed performances of Bach's choral music in the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy tradition, and the Kreuzchor made two tours of the USA in the 1930s. A year before he died in 1971 Rudolf Mauersberger recorded Bach's Matthäus Passion with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. The two […]
2020-04-08 23:00:00
Passion Music 2020 [16 CDS]
[…] Heyerick - direction Label: CPO 555 230-2 Recorded february 2016 & february 2018 Thanks to ripper zood! (Flacs & scans) Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Lamentationes Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Cantatas BWV 46 & 102 Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745): Lamentationes I & II Damien Guillon (alto), Marcus Ullmann (tenor), Lieven Termont (baritone) Il Gardellino/Marcel Ponseele recorded november 2010 Label: Passacaille 977 (Flacs & scans) Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Johann Sebastian Bach Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 Netherlands Bach Society Jos van Velthoven - direction Label: Channel Classics CCS 11397 [3CD] Live recording March 1997 (Flacs & scans) Download 1fichier uptobox zippy1 zippy2 Johann Sebastian Bach Easter Cantatas Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir Ton Koopman - direction Label: Challenge CC72231 [2CD] Recorded 1994 - 2002 (Flacs & scans) Download 1fichier uptobox zippy1 zippy2 Johann Sebastian Bach Markus-Passion, BWV 247 Reconstruction by […]
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