Sofia Gubaidulina, Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Kammerchor der MHS Trossingen, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart

St. John Passion and St. John Easter

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CD/ Track	Title	Duration
1.1	St. John Passion The word	73:36
1.2	St. John Passion The washing of feet	10:35
1.3	St. John Passion The Commandment of Faith	01:58
1.4	St. John Passion The Commandment of Love	02:52
1.5	St. John Passion Hope	01:59
1.6	St. John Passion Liturgy in Heaven	13:26
1.7	St. John Passion Betrayal, Denial, Flaggelation, Condemnation	13:38
1.8	St. John Passion The Way to Golgatha	14:29
1.9	St. John Passion A woman clothed with the sun	01:37
1.10	St. John Passion Entombment	05:12
1.11	St. John Passion The Seven Bowls of Wrath	06:30
2.1	St. John Easter Easter Morning	48:03
2.2	St. John Easter Mary Magdalene	03:08
2.3	St. John Easter Christ's First Appearanceto his Disciples "Receive the Holy Spirit"	02:43
2.4	St. John Easter "I will not Believe"	04:06
2.5	St. John Easter The Rider on a white Horse	05:31
2.6	St. John Easter Christ's second Appearance to his Disciples: "Do not Doubt"	01:14
2.7	St. John Easter Interlude	02:46
2.8	St. John Easter "I am the Living Bread"	01:50
2.9	St. John Easter The Darkness is Passing Away	01:14
2.10	St. John Easter Christ's Third Appearance to his Disciples: "Farewell"	13:26
2.11	St. John Easter The Judgement	02:53
2.12	St. John Easter "I Saw a New Heaven a a New Earth"	06:27

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27,95 EUR

: SCM Hänssler
original title:: Johannes-Passion und Johannes-Ostern
Art.-No.:: 098.289.000
: Doppel-CD
: 76 S. Booklet
Duration:: 2:01 hrs.
: September 2007
: *recommended retail price

World Premiere Recording

Gubaidulina's mammoth St. John was written in two parts, the Passion to a commission from the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart to celebrate the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach in September 2000, with the second part, St. John Easter, following two years later at the request of North German Radio. In the Passion we are plunged immediately into her intensely Russian, deeply Orthodox sound-world, with wonderfully sonorous sounds emanating from the chorus. Rilling steers his musicians through the awesome canvas with mesmerising authority, from climaxes of cataclysmic power to moments of sheer beauty, allowing the audience to fully appreciate the ingenuity and at times great delicacy of Gubaidulina's scoring.
After the darkly brooding power of St. John Passion, St. John Easter comes as something of a relief, being deliberately lighter in its language and celebratory in tone. The sounds once again are unmistakably Russian, the joyous Easter Hymn of the opening sung with great verve by the chorus and returning to close the work in a magnificent paean of praise. It is difficult to imagine this music receiving more intensely felt or characterful performances than these. This is a solemn, convincing and mysterious journey.