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Content: Hafliði Hallgrímsson Artists: Hallgrímskirkja Chamber Orchestra Hallgrímskirkja Motet Choir Hördur Askelsson, conductor Gardar Thór Cortes, tenor Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano Genres: Choral Vocal Features: Booklet with liner notes, written by the composer, in English, German, French and Icelandic and the sung text in the original Icelandic and in English |
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Format: CD Released: January 2004 Catalogue No.: ODE 1027-2 EAN/UPC Code: 0761195102725 |
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Passía, Op. 28 | |
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| 2 | II. | 7:17 | ||||
| 3 | III. | 7:05 | ||||
| 4 | IV. | 14:35 | ||||
| 5 | V. | 17:56 | ||||
Mary Nessinger and Gardar Thór Cortes (...) offer impassioned singing (...). Ondine's recording captures the spacious acoustic in vivid, high-impact sound.
Victor Carr Jr., ClassicsToday.com, October 2004, Artistic Quality 10 / Sound Quality 10
(...) absolutely spine-tingling and sound and graphic stereo separation, it sounds suspiciously like a modern religious masterpiece (...). Enthusiastically recommended.
Calum MacDonald, BBC Music Magazine, May 2004, Performance*****, Sound*****
Passía is a large-scale work for choir, soloists, orchestra and two organs, which the Icelandic composer Hafliði Hallgrímsson wrote to texts by 20th-century Icelandic poets, as well as to the Passiusalmar (Hymns of Passion) by 17th-century priest Hallgrimur Pettursson. The work is a commission from the Hallgríms Church's Arts Society in Reyykjavík, to celebrate 1000 years of Christianity in Iceland. The recording took place at the Hallgríms Church in March 2002.