Passion 1994

Collection includes: A Dead Horse (1989); Drunk With Passion (1991); This Is How It Feels (1993); Pure (1994).

The setting of 13 sacred musical texts is natural territory for Grechaninov, a member of the so-called 'new Russian choral school’ that included Sergey Rachmaninov and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. They were all associated with the Moscow Synodal School of Church Music and its Synodal Choir.

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) is often considered the most important German composer prior to J.S. Bach. He composed pieces in the secular and the sacred areas, including the first German opera, 'Dafne', which is unfortunately lost. A contemporary of Monteverdi, he also exists in the period of transition from medieval polyphony and Renaissance styles and the emerging Baroque era.

Babatunde Olatunji - Drums Of Passion And More (1959-66) {4CD Box Set Bear Family Records BCD 15 747 DI rel 1994}
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© 1959-66, 1994 Bear Family Records | BCD 15 747 DI
World Music / African Folk / Worldbeat / African Traditions / World Fusion

Having come to the U.S. from his native Nigeria to study medicine, percussionist Babatunde Olatunji eventually became one of the first African music stars in the States. He also soon counted jazz heavyweights like John Coltrane ("Tunji") and Dizzy Gillespie among his admirers (Gillespie had, a decade earlier, also courted many Cuban music stars via his trailblazing Latin jazz recordings). And, in spite of it being viewed by some as a symbol of African chic, Drums of Passion is still a substantial record thanks to Olatunji's complex and raw drumming.

German progressive rock band formed in Hannover in 1969. They took their name from H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine", and sci-fi elements feature in much of their music, particularly the mid-to-late 1970's concept albums…

Georg Philipp Telemann schrieb insgesamt 46 Passionen, von denen die hier aufgenommene Matthäus-Passion in der Behandlung der Chöre und Arien eine der schönsten ist. Sie entstand im Jahre 1730 und zeigt eine besonders illustrierende Schreibweise des Komponisten. Die zweistimmige Anlage der Chöre erweist sie sich mit dem Orchestersatz zusammen als eine überaus gekonnte Komposition mit einfachen Mitteln. Die Choräle sind als Gemeindegesang gedacht. Das Passionsgeschehen wird in Telemanns Matthäus-Passion in eine frohe Darstellung des dramatischen Geschehens als Freude über die Erlösung gekehrt.