Bach - Johannes-Passion / Schlick · Wessel · de Mey · Türk · Mertens · Kooy · ABO · Koopman
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Canadian Music Store Music CD CoverOrchestra: Johann Sebastian BachOrchestra: Ton Koopman Performer: Barbara Schlick Performer: Guy de Mey Performer: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 1994-03-08 Music Label: Erato Soundtracks: Music CD 1
Free Music Notes for Bach - Johannes-Passion / Schlick · Wessel · de Mey · Türk · Mertens · Kooy · ABO · KoopmanFree Music Review: Jesus is poignant and pugnacious: he knows what is comingThis passion is extremely beautiful, intense and dense. But its starting at the moment when Christ is arrested erases from the story the last supper and the message of optimism about the future that comes before and along the trial. It also erases a great part of the prophecy that comes from the Old Testament and that is spoken by Christ, both a prophecy that says what he is going to suffer, and a prophecy about what his own suffering is going to bring to the world. What's more Jesus is extremely pugnacious in this passion. He defends himself, he uses logical arguments to prove his point and his innocence, and yet he knows it is in vain, but he does not submit without a legal fight. The third element that characterizes this passion is the extreme violence that is imposed onto Christ. It is the only passion, it is derived from the only gospel in which Christ carries his cross. His suffering is by far more explicit and more extreme in this passion that in the three others, in this gospel than in the three others. In this passion those responsible for the death of Christ are clearly identified : they are the High Priests, the members of the Council of the Temple, and particularly Caiphas who feels unrest among the people and wants to prevent it by killing one man as an example. Bach uses his choruses to impersonate the High Priests, the soldiers or the crowd. The music then becomes systematically hysterical expressing political calculation or just frenzy. Ton Koopman uses these choruses in too soft a way : he does not get to the frantic atmosphere they can express : he gives a simple image of mass-disorder. This then justifies the criticism that this passion may be seen as antisemitic, which it is not if the emphasis is put on the political plot of the High Priests and the use by them of the collective frenzy the crowd is driven into by the high priests themselves. What's more and finally, this passion is by far the most dramatic one, the one that uses dramatic means to give life to many scenes, like the arrest, the trial, the crucifixion and what happens from the sixth hour to the ninth hour. We can even think the dialogue is dramatic in a way and is not a plain story told to us. Finally this passion, and the gospel behind, is heavily presented as a direct and eye testimony of what happened and John gives a great quantity of details to emphasize this live rendition of the sacrifice of Jesus and the sadistic opportunistic violence of those who watch and enjoy the show, because it is a show for them. |
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