Lukasz Golinski - Martinu: The Greek Passion - BLU-RAY

Bohuslav Martinu's opera The Greek Passion, here in the 1961 version, is based on the novel The re-crucified Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis. The opera develops the Christian doctrine of Inchlove thy neighbourInch ad absurdum, as a group of refugees are driven out of a little Greek village just as the village is putting on a Passion play for Holy Week. The opera is a pessimistic plea for humanity, made in the awareness that humanity must always wrestle anew with it's own egoism. Director Simon Stone Inchcreates a modern parable, somehow both contemporary and timeless.Inch (The Times) For the last of his 16 operas, Martinu developed a tonal language which combined his early musical experiences with elements of Greek folklore, Greek Orthodox liturgy and dance music. Maxime Pascal, the 2014 winner of the Salzburg Festival's annual Young Conductors Award and at the podium of the Wiener Philharmoniker for the first time, Inchunfolds a musical and dramatic intensity that makes your hair stand on end, both in the tender outbursts and the violent ones. A maestro of his time.Inch (Le Figaro)InchA highlight of this year's Salzburg FestivalInch The TimesThe Greek Passion elected InchBEST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR 2023Inch OPER! Awards 2024InchThis opulence and the playing of the overall grippingly coherent ensemble hits one to the core.Inch Neue Musikzeitung

At Theater an der Wien Stanislaw Moniuszko's Polish national opera Halka is performed by a superb cast including Corinne Winters (InchdevotedlyInch), Piotr Beczala (Inchvocally outstandingInch) and Tomasz Konieczny (Inchhis acting is piercingInch) (Der Standard). With libretto by young Polish poet Wlodzimierz Wolski, the opera is widely considered to be one of Moniuszko's greatest operas, and in fact was described by noted musicologist Carl Dalhaus as InchThe Polish national opera.Inch The Polish leading team, above all director Mariusz Trelinski, puts the plot into a supercooled crime aesthetic. The ORF Radio Symphonie-Orchester Wien under the baton of Lukasz Borowicz plays with perceptible delight. InchA gripping opera eveningInch (Wiener Zeitung).

Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos rank among the most popular works of Baroque music. To mark their 300th anniversary in 2021, Collegium 1704 played all six Brandenburg Concertos on historical instruments in Köthen Castle's restored Hall of Mirrors. Founded by Václav Luks in 2005, the orchestra is one of the most renowned ensembles of our time specializing in baroque music. Given the great stylistic and structural diversity of these concertos, they were the perfect choice to record these musical gems at the historical location of their inception.