Johannes-Passion

Album by Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina & Valery Gergiev

Johannes-Passion is a choral-orchestral passion composed by Sofia Gubaidulina, completed in 2000. The work fuses contemporary classical techniques with liturgical choral tradition, featuring stark timbral contrasts, extended instrumental and vocal sonorities and a ritualistic atmosphere, and represents a late-career continuation of Gubaidulina's sustained engagement with spiritual themes in her music.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Johannes-Passion: I. The Word
    1:27
  2. 2.
    Johannes-Passion: II. The Washing of Feet
    13:07
  3. 3.
    Johannes-Passion: III. The Commandment of Faith
    2:30
  4. 4.
    Johannes-Passion: IV. The Commandment of Love
    3:57
  5. 5.
    Johannes-Passion: V. Hope
    2:37
  6. 6.
    Johannes-Passion: VI. Liturgy in Heaven
    15:04
  7. 7.
    Johannes-Passion: VII. Betrayal, Denial, Flagellation, Condemnation
    17:11

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Johannes-Passion: VIII. The Way to Golgotha
    19:50
  2. 3.
    Johannes-Passion: IX. A Woman Clothed with the Sun
    1:50
  3. 4.
    Johannes-Passion: X. Entombment
    6:49
  4. 5.
    Johannes-Passion: XI. The Seven Bowls of Wrath
    6:24

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