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Werner Gura (Evangelist), Johannes Weisser amy winehouse grammy performance (BC), Sunhae Im (sop), Christina Roterberg (sop), Bernarda Fink (a), Marie-Claude Chappuis (a), Topi Lehtipuu (s), Fabio Trümpy (s) Konstantin Wolff (b) Artuu Kataja (b), Staats-und Domchor Berlin (kr), RIAS Chamber Choir (kr), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (orchestral), René Jacobs (dir) Harmonia amy winehouse grammy performance Mundi Harmonia Mundi 2013
The mother of all scores, who dares to touch her again? It is a mausoleum of beauty, a petrified monument, even one of the few certainties in life. For years now adorns Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" at the top of Klara's annual top 100 and it does not look as though there in the next decade will change. The piety, the uplifting power of harmony, which delineated meter that is a perfect time management approaches, ... in which music musical parameters are so great together and they form an equally powerful and comforting reflection on the tragic-human condition? Those who claim that the idiom of the "St. Matthew Passion" is outdated natural right, but that construct soloists voices, narrator, chorus and orchestra, divided into arias, recitatives, choruses and chorales, has simply become part of the tradition. Saying that the passion these days is no longer up to date and therefore can not possibly be perceived as short course wrong. Who affinity with Bach, the formal amy winehouse grammy performance structures of the 18 th century and the seemingly out of a precious metal do not at all to worry about hewn German which is sung, the date on which premiered the work. How would a score fact may age and lose relevance when it is taken with great regularity out of the closet and new lease of life? A life that languishes repeatedly while navigating his way of the cross Christ, to finally beaches in a collective transcendence that so often for cerebral fireworks and the feeling of a clamped diaphragm has caused, and that undoubtedly will do for many years. It is obvious that a masterpiece like this never lose its luster? Certainly not. To date, there were reference recordings of people like Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Warner Classics) and Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi), amy winehouse grammy performance who both knew to bone up merely remained a heartwarming experience, where the devout character shivers at the same time on the back of the listener walked. amy winehouse grammy performance Who has something to add? With so much class Only an iconoclast as René Jacobs someone sacred sound sculpture that Bach wrote not like dusting, but its good elements mixed up at different locations and simply a new, drastically altered composition of top picks. Much more than the above-mentioned colleagues Jacobs has a background in the opera world. Tragedies or comedies have secrets from him, he knows how to work with a large group of people and an overall arc one should tell him anything. The latter amy winehouse grammy performance aspect amy winehouse grammy performance is not to be underestimated when it comes to the "St. Matthew Passion" is: all too often in this classic version is quite long, which highlights mainly seem to be situated in the second part. It is just one of the traditional impressions Jacobs with his lecture completely obliterates: from the first note - or actually what's for coming, especially the sacred amy winehouse grammy performance silence that precedes the whole sad story - until a final agreement amy winehouse grammy performance crashing into his serenity, amy winehouse grammy performance Jacobs unfolds a history that could be delusions. integral untold until now How does he do that? Including amy winehouse grammy performance on the basis of historical amy winehouse grammy performance research on the preparation of the choir and the orchestra, which says a lot about how the music is put together purely rhetorical. How alone an arrangement with the recording actually pay for the distance between the two choirs, can lead to a much greater emotional immediacy of music ... Shall five stars are debatable? Those who are assigned to this recording that to a certain extent. amy winehouse grammy performance Means the full price within the classical music does not that it is a reading as there has never been one? That is one option. Another is that the distribution of such a score means a moral obligation to the reader and lover, and so this value judgment also provided. Sounds 'Erbarme dich' under many conductor if an angel comes down from the cloud, then makes Jacobs is the purest human exclamation - nothing no counter-tenor, but a woman's voice with body! He avoids the ephemeral and swap it for a down to earth