佳佳唱片

本特.索安森:馬太受難曲
葛蕾特.佩德森 指揮
挪威獨唱家合唱團
歡樂合奏團

To mark Oslo International Church Music Festival's anniversary in 2020, a new St Matthew Passion was commissioned from Bent Sorensen, one of northern Europe's most performed and admired composers and winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Music in 2018. The premiere was postponed owing to the pandemic and had to wait the following year for a streamed world premiere 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, Sorensen 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.'
Sorensen'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.

Bent Sorensen
St Matthew Passion (2019) 65''27
01 I. In veils of mist 10''52
02 II. Betania 4''00
03 III. Psalm 4''06
04 IV. Wild Nights 6''26
05 V. Crucifixus 9''05
06 VI. Lament 11''13
07 VII. Tenebrae 4''29
08 VIII. Magdalena 5''43
09 IX. The shore again, Galilee 2''10
10 X. Into the Mist 7''23

Album total 65''32