Bent Sørensen - St. Matthew PassionTo mark Oslo International Church Music Festival's anniversary in 2020, a new St. Matthew Passion was commissioned from Bent Srensen, one of northern Europe's most performed and admired composers and winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Music in 2018. The premire was postponed owing to the pandemic and had to wait the following year for a streamed world premire that reached a large number of listeners and viewers throughout Europe. The libretto [in

composed in 1991

with Yampolsky providing trim pianistic support

Regarding the theme

These songs evoke memories of my mother playing her Martin parlor guitar and of my father

That's All

Ray Davies and Rodgers and Hammerstein

Animal Tracks is available on 180-gram vinyl and has been remastered utilizing high-resolution sources from first generation mono master tapes

Guest stars include Kate Hewlett (The Girlfriend Experience)

With a clutch of songs as tuneful as Sgt

a term coined to describe the southern capital and it's high concentration of castrato sopranos

she grew up with choral music and the organ repertoire

while the sprightly Bev Munro has a wish