general information

composition date
2000
duration
1h 27 min
editor
Boosey & Hawkes
Dedicatee
à María Guinand et la Schola Cantorum de Caracas
Commission
Internationale Bachakademie, Helmut Rilling, directeur artistique
Libretto (details, author)

Évangile selon St Marc ; Kaddish ; Lamentations de Jérémie ; Psaumes 113-119 ; Rosalia de Castro.

type

Vocal music and instrument(s) (Solo voice(s), solo instrument(s), choir(s) and ensemble/orchestra)

detailed formation

Soloist
unspecified female voice, unspecified male voice, soprano, 8 unspecified voices [jusqu'à 8 solistes du chœur], double bass

4 percussionists, marimba, accordion [avec effet sonore "efx"], guitar (also tres), piano, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 12 violins, 8 cellos, 4 double basses

information about the creation

date
September 5, 2000

Allemagne, Stuttgart, salle Beethoven

interpreters

Luciana Souza : voix, Reynaldo Fernandez : voix et danse, Samia Ibrahim : soprano, Schola Cantorum de Caracas, Orquesta la Pasión, Geoff Nuttall : premier violon, Mikael Ringquist : leader, direction : María Guinand.

observations

Enregistrements disponibles : Hänssler Classics (2001) et Deutsche Grammophon (2010).

Program note

I want to record—like Rembrandt recorded the Jews, I want to record the Christians, simply that. For instance, my great grandmother had a picture of "Jeremiah Lamenting the Fall of Jerusalem" by Rembrandt—it's the greatest Jewish picture ever, and he was not a Jew, but he lived amongst them—I cannot aspire to be Rembrandt but if at least one section of the Passion has the truth about Christianity that Rembrandt's paintings have about Judaism, I'll be all right—that's enough.



Osvaldo Golijov.

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