TV Standard: NTSC
Color: Colour

Credits:

Roth, Linus

Description:

The world premiere of this troubled work, which overlaps the Passion of Jesus Christ with the Passion of the Holocaust. Based on his Jewish origins and the experience of his father, the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, who lost many of his family and relatives in Auschwitz, the piece reinterprets the Passion of Jesus for those of us living in the post-Holocaust world today. In addition to the Gospel of St. Mark, the texts used are excerpts from the "Passion Play," a Passion play written by Grevin, organist at Notre Dame de Paris, which took four days to perform and had 400 characters, a traditional Jewish prayer for the dead, and a poem by the German-Jewish poet Paul Czeran, a German-Jewish poet, sang "Yamanarashi" about his mother who was murdered in the camps. Levinas, who greatly influenced the establishment of the theory of spectral music, such as analyzing sound as sound waves and their overtones, is known for the difficulty of his works, but the music heard in this Passion has many moments in which the intertwining phrases in the unstable resonance create a disturbing beauty, giving depth to the complexity of the theme being told. The music in this Passion is full of moments when the intertwining phrases of unstable sounds create an unsettling beauty, adding depth to the complexity of the spoken theme. Naxos Japan