Passion 2012

The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.

A woman recovering from a personal tragedy imprisons a man she met at a party, shutting him in a room of a building demolition.

Armik is one of the most popular guitar virtuosos of the Nuevo Flamenco genre, having appeared in Billboard Magazine's Top Ten New Age Artists in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008. Enjoy the 22 personal albums he has released in the period 1994-2012 (except the "best of" collections), in lossless. Really excellent guitar music for all new age nuevo flamenco fans.

Ketil Bjørnstad’s passion for the English metaphysical poet John Donne (1572-1631) is a lifelong affair. His settings of Donne’s verse have led to recordings including The Shadow, Grace and the ECM album The Light. “After working with the texts of John Donne for more than twenty years, I still find new approaches to understanding what he wrote and I find music throughout. It is in the language, in the rhythm, in the silence between the sentences - a passionate quest for meaning and reconciliation. Donne's dramatic life is reflected in the texts and everywhere in them you will find the passion, melodies and sounds”. Bjørnstad wrote A passion for John Donne for the Oslo International Church Festival in the winter of 2011/2012 and the premiere performance – documented here – was at the Sofienberg Kirke in Oslo in March 2012.

Orange Mountain Music presents the world premiere recording of Philip Glass' The Passion of Ramakrishna. Commissioned by the Pacific Symphony and premiered in 2006 during the opening of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County, Glass' 45 minute oratorio, written for soloists, chorus and large orchestra, is a passion play and a tribute to 19th Century Indian spiritual leader Sri Ramakrishna. The work portrays his death with the chorus taking up the voice of Ramakrishna himself and the soloists are those of his loved ones, doctor and disciples. Maestro Carl St.Clair, a longtime champion of the music of Philip Glass, leads the Pacific Symphony, Pacific Chorale and soloists Christopheren Numura, Janice Chandler Eteme, Kevin Deas, I-Chin Feinblatt and Nicholas Preston.

Véritable frontière entre la Bretagne et la Normandie, l’abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel est un monument unique qui, depuis plus de 1300 ans, se confond avec son environnement. Aujourd’hui le Mont entre dans une nouvelle ère. D’immenses travaux sont entrepris pour lui rendre son caractère maritime et le protéger de l’ensablement. Déjà, les voitures ne peuvent plus se garer au pied des remparts, et la passerelle ultra-moderne qui le reliera au continent est en construction…