J S Bach: St Matthew Passion – Rattle

St Matthew Passion, BWV244

Christian Gerhaher (Jesus Mark Padmore (Evangelist)

Format: 3 DVD/Blu-ray
Release date: 1/3/2016
Barcode: 4260306180219 Categories: ,

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PRIX CAECILIA 2015

Mettre en scène les Passions de Bach : folie, sacrilège ? Peter Sellars et Simon Rattle n’ont pas conçu un spectacle, mais plutôt un rituel auquel se livrent, corps et âme, les artistes, dans une communion dont l’insoutenable beauté nous étreint, nous submerge. (Bernard Schreuders)

Is het ensceneren van de Passies van Bach waanzin of godslasterend? Peter Sellars en Simon Rattle maken er geen spetterend spektakel van maar veel eerder een ritueel, waarbij artiesten zich met hart en ziel uitleveren aan en opgaan in een “gemeenschappelijkheid” van een bijna ondraaglijke schoonheid, die ons naar de keel grijpt en overrompelt.

   in Choir & Organ (Jul, 2012)
Here is the ‘Everest of music’ not so much scaled, and certainly not merely admired from a distance, but represented as a sequence of human encounters – support, betrayal, love freely given and sternly exacted, violence – that lead inexorably to a summit of remarkably quiet and untriumphant transcendence. Director Peter Sellars was strongly affected by the spatial arrangement of the Philharmonie in Berlin, grander but not so very different from the tiers of St Thomas’s, Leipzig, where the St Matthew Passion was first enacted at Vespers on Good Friday 1727. His approach to the Passion was not to transform sacred oratorio into a kind of pseudo-opera, but precisely to point …
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