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Article: UNDYING 'PASSIONS' : From Bach to Carmen Miranda.(Brief Article)
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- March 22, 2002
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While new musical compositions of the Passion went out of style by the nineteenth century, recently there has been an unexpected--and largely unexplained--revival of the genre. It began in the aftermath of World War II, after midcentury catastrophies compelled composers to investigate the genre as an emotional necessity.
Apart from some obscure and apparently unrecorded works by German composers like Heinrich von Herzogenberg (d. 1900) and Ernst Pepping (d. 1981), the first modern Passion to make a lasting impact was that of the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki (b. 1933). His 1965 Saint Luke Passion has just received a splendid new recording on MDG (337 ...