Cassol PitiéJazz saxophonist and composer Fabrizio Cassol’s take on Bach’s St. Matthew Passion: for the dance theater piece Pitié, staged by Alain Platel for Les Ballets C de la B.  After the success of VSPRS and Monteverdi, Alain Platel and Fabrizio Cassol once more join their talents for Pitié!

This new work was inspired by Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion, transposed into a musical style interwoven with multifarious influences. The result is overwhelming in emotion, on the verge of opera. The production has already been programmed nearly one hundred times in some forty cities around the world. Fabrizio Cassol’s re-orchestration blends influences from jazz, manouche, Mali and the blues, backed up by the trio Aka Moon, and it manages to create a new narrative based on one of music’s monuments.

This version of the Passion seeks to express the sorrow of a mother, a role that does not exist in the original work, confronted as she is by the sacrifice of her son. From this choice we have a cast of three singers: a soprano for the mother and two very similar voices for the children (an alto/mezzo and a counter-tenor, the young Congolese Serge Kakudji, with his limpid timbre). The role of Christ is doubled here, following an esoteric vision whereby Christ was simultaneously a masculine and a feminine soul. The outcome is a moving experience in which the idea of compassion, pushed to the point of paroxysm that is the sacrifice of oneself, is nonetheless portrayed in a positive light. The ultimate expression of this music, of this Passion, is the love, called upon and shared, that radiates through each scene.

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    AKA MOON trio
    Laura Claycomb soprano
    Melissa Givens soprano
    Cristina Zavalloni mezzo
    Serge Kakudji counter tenor
    Magic Malik Flute
    Airelle Besson Trumpet
    Sanne Van Hek trumpet
    Tcha Limberger violin
    Philippe Thurion accordion
    Lode Vercampt cello
    Monica Brett-Crowther mezzo
    alexandre cavalière violin
    Philippe Thuriot accordion

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    Künstler: Laura Claycomb, Melissa Givens, Cristina Zavalloni, Monica Brett-Crowther, Serge Kakadji, Magic Malik, Aka Moon
    Label: Cypres, DDD, 2008
    Bestellnummer: 8585291
    Erscheinungstermin: 1.2.2009

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    Mitwirkende
    1 Prelude (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    2 Du lieber Heiland (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    3 Buss und Reu (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    4 Blute nur (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    5 Bin ich's (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    6 Wiewohl mein Herz (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    7 Ich will dir mein Herze schenken (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    8 O Schmerz (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    9 Der Heiland fällt (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    10 Gerne will ich mich (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    11 So ist mein Jesus (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    12 Sturm (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    13 Ach nun ist mein Jesus (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    14 O Mensch (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    15 Erbarme dich (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    16 Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    17 Tränen (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    18 Können Tränen (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    19 Ja! Freilich (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    20 Eli (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    21 Mache dich, mein Herze, rein (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start
    22 Finale (inspired by the Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach) Start

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