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Ketil Bjornstad - A Passion for John Donne (2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Feb. 22, 2023

Ketil Bjørnstad - A Passion for John Donne (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 72:50 minutes | 1,44 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

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.

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Bach Collegium Japan & Masaaki Suzuki - J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Feb. 5, 2020

Bach Collegium Japan & Masaaki Suzuki - J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (2020)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 02:42:39 | 700 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: BIS

Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan made their first recording of the St Matthew Passion in March 1999. Twenty years later, in April 2019, it was time once again, as the singers and players gathered in the concert hall of the Saitama Arts Theater in Japan. ‘A profound joy’ is how Masaaki Suzuki describes his emotion at the opportunity to record Bach’s great fresco of Christ’s Passion for a second time. And this time, he and his ensemble have brought with them into the concert hall a profound and collective familiarity with Bach’s choral music, after having recorded more or less all of it in the meantime, including the complete sacred cantatas. For his Evangelist, Suzuki has selected the young German tenor Benjamin Bruns, making his first appearance on BIS. Among the other soloists are familiar names including Carolyn Sampson, Damien Guillon, Makoto Sakurada and Christian Immler.

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Bach Collegium Japan & Masaaki Suzuki - J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Feb. 4, 2020

Bach Collegium Japan & Masaaki Suzuki - J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 162:39 minutes | 2.86 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

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Cantorey St. Catharinen, Andreas Fischer - J.S. Bach: St. Mark Passion, BWV 247 (2018) Music

Posted by tirexiss at July 2, 2021

Cantorey St. Catharinen, Andreas Fischer - J.S. Bach: St. Mark Passion, BWV 247 (2018)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 636 MB | 02:10:46
Genre: Classical | Label: MDG Scene

It is one of the tragic losses of music history that not a single note of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Mark Passion is of certain transmission. Attempts to reconstruct it have usually not advanced beyond the halfway point, but Andreas Fischer has now carried this task through to completion. This version of the St. Mark Passion consists exclusively of music by Bach - which is perhaps why it creates an especially authentic impression in this performance with his St. Catharinen - Cantorey of Hamburg.

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Gli Angeli Genève - J.S. Bach_ Johannes-Passion, BWV 245 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at April 6, 2023

Gli Angeli Genève - J.S. Bach_ Johannes-Passion, BWV 245 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:15:17 minutes | 2.33 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

According to the obituary written by his son Carl Philip Emmanuel and his former pupil Johann Friedrich Agricola, Johann Sebastian Bach composed five Passions, including “one for two choirs” (the St Matthew Passion).

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Crouch End Festival Chorus, Bach Camerata & David Temple - J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 (Sung in English) (2017) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Jan. 4, 2018

Crouch End Festival Chorus, Bach Camerata & David Temple - J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 (Sung in English) (2017)
Classical, Choral | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 441 MB
Label: Chandos | Tracks: 68 | Time: 109:40 min

This will play on conventional CD players A landmark recording of J.S. Bach s St John Passion, sung in English the first for over forty-five years. With communicative zeal, beautiful articulation, and focused energy, the 100 voices of CEFC lend precision and power to the performance alongside the instruments of the Bach Camerata, one of the finest UK baroque orchestras, all under the inspired direction of David Temple. They are joined by a superb array of soloists including Robert Murray, Ashley Riches and Sophie Bevan.

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Wiltener Sängerknabensoloists of Wiltener Sängerknaben, Academia Jacobus Stainer - St. Matthew Passion - Bwv 244 (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at June 4, 2022

Wiltener Sängerknabensoloists of Wiltener Sängerknaben, Academia Jacobus Stainer - St. Matthew Passion - Bwv 244 (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:36:21 | 730 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: haenssler CLASSIC

Recording St. Matthew Passion with boys’ and young men’s voices is an exceptionally intensive experience. Singing from memory and seeing Jesus’ suffering from the trusting perspective of children leads you to a different conclusion than it would with adult singers. The voices of children and adolescents sound more linear with a lower vibrato amplitude; they are rich in overtones and usually use a shorter phrase length. But children breathe very quickly, and their voices can be applied with virtuosity. Chords sound calmer and clean.

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Nicholas McGegan, Capella Savaria, Stadtsingechor Halle - Handel: Brockes Passion (1986) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at April 12, 2019

Handel's 'Brockes Passion' has had rather a bad press, suffering rather in comparison with Bach's passions. In fact, Handel's 'Brockes Passion' was written written at about the same time as 'Esther', some eight years before Bach wrote the St. John Passion. One of the subsidiary impulses which led to the creation of 'Esther' may have been a desire, on Handel's part, to hear some of the music from the passion performed as 'Esther' re-uses some nine numbers and others were re-used in 'Deborah'.

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Playing On: Re-staging the Passion after the Death of God (Theology in Practice, 10) eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Maks_tir at May 19, 2024

Playing On: Re-staging the Passion after the Death of God (Theology in Practice, 10) by Mirella Klomp
English | ISBN: 9004440348 | 272 pages | PDF | 2020 | 5 Mb

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Wiltener Sängerknaben, Academia Jacobus Stainer & Johannes Stecher - J. S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (2022) [24/48] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 31, 2024

Wiltener Sängerknaben, Academia Jacobus Stainer & Johannes Stecher - J. S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 156:22 minutes | 1,6 GB
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: hänssler CLASSIC, Official Digital Download

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