Golijov:La Pasion Segun San Marcos

Name: Golijov:La Pasion Segun San Marcos
Brand: Hanssler Classics
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Osvaldo Golijov was born on December 5, 1960, in La Plata, Argentina, and now lives in Newton, Massachusetts. The score is dedicated "To the miracle of faith in Latin America, that lives through Mara Guinand and the Schola Cantorum de Caracas." Osvaldo Golijov grew up in an Eastern European Jewish household in La Plata, a provincial capital of half a million people about fifty kilometers from Buenos Aires in officially Catholic Argentina. While on a fellowship to the Tanglewood Festival, Golijov became acquainted personally with the Kronos Quartet, who performed there in 1990 and 1992. This relationship became a central one to Golijovs ever-increasing profile as a composer. Golijov wrote Kvakarat, which the quartet later recorded, for Kronos and cantor Misha Alexandrovich, and in 1997 Kronos and clarinetist David Krakauer recorded Golijovs Klezmer-accented The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. When approaching the composer with the commission, Rilling encouraged Golijov draw upon his own experienceas a Jew living in an officially Catholic country; as an artist with an interest in a broadly eclectic range of style and media; as a Spanish-speaking composer of Eastern European parents, now living in the United States, and so onin discovering a personal perspective on the twice-told (or rather four-times-told) story. The text of La Pasin Segn San Marcos is composed of portions of The Gospel According to Mark, the Old Testaments Psalms and Lamentations, and Spanish poetry. Golijov matches the pared-down, vox populi directness of St. Marks account in the directness of his musical idiom, particularly in his appropriation of popular Latin American folk and dance music. He uses these forms as models for individual numbers with the larger work, which itself shares much in common with the structures of the Passions of Bach

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Release Date:: 2001-08-28
Publication Date:: 2001-08-28
Publisher:: Hanssler Classics
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 227 g
Height:: 1.9 cm
Width:: 12.7 cm
Thickness:: 14.6 cm

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