Sorensen - St Matthew Passion | BIS BIS2611

Sorensen - St Matthew Passion

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BIS2611

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 7th April 2023

Contents

Artists

Ditte Marie Braein (soprano)
Mari Askvik (alto)
Oystein Stensheim (tenor)
Halvor Festervoll Melien (bass)
The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir
Ensemble Allegria

Conductor

Grete Pedersen

Works

Sorensen, Bent

St Matthew Passion

Artists

Ditte Marie Braein (soprano)
Mari Askvik (alto)
Oystein Stensheim (tenor)
Halvor Festervoll Melien (bass)
The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir
Ensemble Allegria

Conductor

Grete Pedersen

About

To mark Oslo International Church Music Festival’s anniversary in 2020, a new St Matthew Passion was commissioned from Bent Sørensen, one of northern Europe’s most performed and admired composers and winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Music in 2018. The première was postponed owing to the pandemic and had to wait the following year for a streamed world première that reached a large number of listeners and viewers throughout Europe.

The libretto (in English) was curated by Jakob Holtze and is made of fragments of the Gospels of Matthew and John, traditional mass texts, as well as poetry by six authors, three of them women. In his work, Sørensen says, ‘lies a love passion. Not only Christ’s love declaration to all humankind, through crucifixion and resurrection, but also a simple and beautiful love. The passion for the people we love.’

Sørensen’s St Matthew Passion is performed by the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir and Ensemble Allegria under the direction of Grete Pedersen, a musical partnership that has resulted in several award-winning recordings for BIS over the years.

Reviews

For many years Danish composer Bent Sørensen was determined to write his own Passion – one that puts love, rather than suffering, at its core: ‘a journey towards Crucifixion, but even more a journey towards Resurrection’. ... It’s a virtuoso account of a piece that takes the spirit of Bach and says something quite new.  Alexandra Coghlan
Gramophone July 2023
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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