A unique and important musical presentation will take place in Spain under the direction of the Maelicum agency in the coming days of March: presentation of one of them Passions de Bach, de San Juanan authentic masterpiece, no worse than the most extensive and interpreted San Mateo.
It will arrive with weapons, which the Portuguese baroque ensemble Divino Sospiro will hand over and distribute to the vocal ensemble Nova Era, directed by its founder Joao de Barros, who will perform in rhythm Massimo Mazzeo.
A unique opportunity to admire and immerse yourself in such a masterful score. What is important is the fact that a person offers what he believes original version works that the author conceived for the church of San Nicolás de Leipzig in 1724.
Although you have to supply it, According to most musicologists, it is impossible to write a definitive version and in fact differences that are stable between one interpretation and another are frequent. There is also a complete edition of the text, derived from the great majority Gospel of San Juanbut with the inclusion of two passages which refer to de San Mateo.
We will have two concerts in Spain, in addition to the one we offered last day 2 in Seville: this miracle 5 in the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona and the 7 concert in the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid. It is not irrelevant from the place that before the soloists of the old country — Rodrigo Carreto, tenor; Eunice Abranches de Aguiar, soprano; Hugo Oliveira, bass guitar; Gustavo Luz, tenor; y Lucas Mandilo, bajo—se sitúe como mezzo-soprano the German singer Andreas Scholl, who at the age of 58 will undoubtedly give his arias all the emotions they expect. It will be a great experience to watch them in action Es ist vollbracht!
Of the four numbers that integrate the usual score, the first and last are independent of the recitative. The opening fragment is a real prologue “on the ground”. It is not angels or archangels who sing, but fieles, pecadores who, in suffering, hope to be able to decide that the Lord of God is glorified in every moment of the narrative. The cierre number is a simple chorale devoid of all monumentality in which the grace of the Lord is invoked. Two spectacular episodes.
How many works of the composer can be seen in it Passionand the keenest musicologists and scholars have revealed it, a very laborious arrangement, a rational distribution of elements; a plan, we can say, consistently predetermined architectural; AND symmetrical game here it would be sufficient to explain and that they developed, among others, Friedrich Smend and Albert Basso.
The center of gravity, the epicenter, the pole of attraction, so to speak, was formed song Through your prisonwhich text comes from one Passion de Postel, developed by Bach in a choral style. This fragment of naive construction is the one that brings together the entire constructive apparatus of the work. According to Belgian musicologist Georges Lemaître, the last three pieces of this harmonized choir contain chromaticism that expresses pain.
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