Radio-Sinfonieorchester des SWR - Passions - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

These works were commissioned by the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart to write works to mark Bach Year 2000. Osvaldo Golijov´s Pasión Según San Marcos is the work of one who moves back and forth between different worlds and can scarcly be pigeonholed as representing a specific culture. His work unites the music of South America, Cuba, the West and Jewish tradition to produce an unconventional conception of a InchPassionInch in which Jesus is not a light skinned European, but instead a person of color. Sofia Gubaidulina's response was a St John Passion, and subsequently she added a sequel, St John Easter, which was premiered in Hamburg in March 2002. Both those works originally had Russian words, drawn mostly from St John's gospel and the Book of Revelation, but in 2006, prompted by conductor Helmuth Rilling, Gubaidulina collaborated on a German translation of the text, while also making revisions to the score itself. Album Tracks 1. St. John Passion (Johannes-Passion)~Das Wort (The Word) 2. St. John Passion (Johannes-Passion)~Fußwaschung (The Washing of Feet) 3. St. John Passion (Johannes-Passion)~Das Gebot des Glaubens (The Commandment of Faith) 4. St. John Passion (Johannes-Passion)~Das Gebot der Liebe (The Commandment of Love) 5. St. John Passion (Johannes-Passion)~Hoffnung (Hope) 6. St. John Passion (Johannes-Passion)~Liturgie im Himmel (Liturgy in Heaven) 7. St. John Passion (Johannes-Passion)~Verrat, Verleugnung, Geißelung, Verurteilung (Betrayal, Denial, Flagellation, Condemnation) 8. St. John Passion (Johannes-Passion)~Gang nach Golgatha (The Way to Golgotha) 9. St. John Passion (Johannes-Passion)~Eine Frau, mit der Sonne bekleidet (A Woman Clothed with the Sun) 10. St. John Passion (Johannes-Passion)~Grablegung (Entombment) 11. St. John Passion (Johannes-Passion)~Die sieben Schalen des Zorns (The Seven Bowls of Wrath) 1. St.