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© Michael Wharley
Passione Markus: I Sebastiani e Chatham Baroque
New York, Corpus Christi Church
Lo spettacolo
Vivete l'esperienza della musica classica come mai prima d'ora in questa sorprendente esecuzione di capolavori di Johann Sebastian Bach nella straordinaria Corpus Christi Church di New York.
J. S. Bach scrisse le ambientazioni della Passione per i vangeli di Marco, Matteo e Giovanni, due delle più grandi opere artistiche di tutti i tempi. Poco dopo la morte di Bach, avvenuta nel 1750, il manoscritto della Passione di Marco fu consegnato a mano dal figlio C.P.E. al suo editore, Johann Breitkopf, ma in seguito andò perduto.
La nuova edizione della Passione di Marco, curata dal musicologo Malcolm Bruno, è un'ingegnosa ricostruzione che attinge materiale da altre opere di Bach. Con quattro cantanti, 14 strumentisti e un ruolo unico per un attore nel ruolo dell'Evangelista.
Questa prima versione mai messa in scena è in tournée nel Regno Unito e sulla costa occidentale, ma non prima di aver dato una prima mondiale condivisa a Pittsburgh (11 aprile), poi la Domenica delle Palme all'MB1800 in una pietra miliare per la musica antica. Con l'attore Joseph Marcell (Royal Shakespeare Company, The Fresh Prince of Bel‐Air).
Programma
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Passione secondo Marco, BWV 247
Cast/Produzione
Joseph Marcell, attore
Pascale Beaudin, soprano
Cody Bowers, controtenore
James Reese, tenore
Jonathan Woody, basso
Jeffrey Grossman Regia e clavicembalo
Adattamento e regia di Bill Barclay
Montaggio di Malcolm Bruno
Prodotto da Concert Theatre Works
Commissionato da
Oregon Bach Festival
I Sebastiani con Chatham Baroque
Emi Ferguson, flauto
Mei Yoshimura Stone, flauto
Priscilla Herreid, oboe d'amore
Caroline Giassi, oboe d'amore
Daniel Lee, violino
Andrew Fouts (Chatham Baroque), violino
Shelby Yamin, viola
Patricia Halverson (Chatham Baroque), viola da gamba
Caroline Nicolas, viola da gamba
Ezra Seltzer, violoncello
Nathaniel Chase, contrabbasso
Scott Pauley (Chatham Baroque), tiorba
Kevin Payne, tiorba
Jeffrey Grossman, organo, clavicembalo, direttore musicale
Artisti
| Ensemble: | The Sebastians |
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| Ensemble: | Chatham Baroque |
Johann Sebastian Bach
The name Bach and the word musician had long been synonyms in Germany as the world saw 56 musicians from this kin. But it was Johann Sebastian Bach, a genius composer and virtuoso organ player, who shed lustre on his family name. He was born on th 31st of March 1685 in Eisenach, a small town in Thuringia. At the age of 10 he became an orphan and was brought up by his elder brother Johann Christoph, who was an organist in a neighbouring town. His brother was the one to teach music to the young Johann Sebastian. Later he moved to Luneburg where he attended a church school and mastered the techniques of playing violin, viola, piano and organ by the age of 17. Besides that, Bach was a choir singer and later after his voice broke he became a chanter’s assistant. In 1703 Bach was hired as a court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann Ernst III. He earned such a good reputation there that he was later invited to Arnstadt to be an organist at the New Church, where he wrote his best organ works. In 1723 he moved to Leipzig to be a chantor at St. Thomas Church where he stayed until his death of a stroke in 1750. In the year of his death he had undergone unsuccessful eye surgery which lead him to lose his eyesight. During that strenuous time his second wife Anna Magdalena helped him to write his last musical pieces. Bach’s artistic legacy is vast. He created compositions in all genres of the time: oratorias, cantatas, masses, motets, music for organ, piano and violin.
Indirizzo
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