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Bach - St Matthew Passion: A Ballet (Blu-ray) | Arthaus 109219

Bach - St Matthew Passion: A Ballet (Blu-ray)

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Label: Arthaus

Cat No: 109219

Barcode: 4058407092193

Format: Blu-ray

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Ballet

Release Date: 26th February 2016

Contents

Artists

Peter Schreier (tenor)
Bernd Weikl (baritone)
Mitsuko Shirai (soprano)
Marga Schiml (alto)
Franz Grundheber
St.-Michaelis-Chor, Knabenchor Hannover, Knabenchor St. Michaelis
St.-Michaelis-Orchester
Hamburg Ballet

Conductor

Gunter Jena

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

St Matthew Passion, BWV244

Artists

Peter Schreier (tenor)
Bernd Weikl (baritone)
Mitsuko Shirai (soprano)
Marga Schiml (alto)
Franz Grundheber
St.-Michaelis-Chor, Knabenchor Hannover, Knabenchor St. Michaelis
St.-Michaelis-Orchester
Hamburg Ballet

Conductor

Gunter Jena

About

Johann Sebastian Bach - St Matthew Passion
A Ballet by John Neumeier


- Choreography, Staging, Scenery and Costumes by John Neumeier
- Finally available again, with a new look

“John Sebastian Bach's Matthew Passion has deeply moved me. Bach's musical incarnation of the Passion in both its general and personal aspects created the need in me to find a choreographic equivalent. I am both Christian and a dancer. My whole life, all my thoughts and feelings are dance, and choreography is my real language. That is why I have attempted to express my own religious convictions and experiences in choreographic terms and to organize them in artistic form.

“In my entire career as a choreographer, I have never known a period in which I enjoyed such complete harmony with the dancers, as I have enjoyed throughout the creation of the St. Matthew Passion. It was a period of learning from one another, of experiencing instinctively together the emotion of text and music, of positive cooperation and concentration. Even if this ballet had never got beyond rehearsals and had never been performed, the process of its creation will remain the most profound experience of my
working life.”
- John Neumeier

“One's imagination can feast on this ballet and its implications, one can become personally involved, but it is difficult if not impossible to imagine any other company performing it. It is the unique expression of this man and this company he has forged.”
- Dance Magazine

BONUS: Includes a Multi-Angle-View

Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Picture Format: 16:9
2 Blu-ray Discs 1 x 25 GB (Single Layer) + 1 x 50 GB (Dual Layer)
Resolution: 1080i High Definition (Upscale)
Running Time: 211 mins
FSK: 0
Region free

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