The
revisited version of Symphony No.4 "Descent From The Cross", op.67.
Part I.
Introduktion: Da riss der Vorhang entzwei…..
Part
II. Die Nacht unter dem Kreuz
Part
III. Die Kreuzabnahme
Part
IV. Der Weg vom Golgotha
Part V.
Voll Blut und Wunden
Part
VI. Die Grablegung
Part
VII. Apotheose
Part
VIII. Epilog
Performed by Czech Integrated Ensemble with soloists Vladimír Hirsch
(keyboard instruments, digital technique) & Martina Sanollová
(vocals)
Recorded live at „Luminiscence Evening“, ČKD Hall in Karlín, Prague,
Czechia, November 18, 2008, remixed and arranged at CatchArrow
Recordings studio, Prague.
Mastered by Vojtěch Haňka.
From the
review by Martin Jarolím:
I can say, that new version of the author's 4th symphony is more
lucidly expressed that original composition, although does not touch
with less overwhelming force. As though, it evokes in another, more
crude and simultaneously more inward impression the blood of
Golgotha, unearthly herniation of Light. This work is at all points
organized and structuralized, it “hiss” by Cosmos and redemptions of
crucified Word agony. For dynamism and dramaturgy of sound radiance
was very beneficial sensitive and empathetic work of soundmaster
Vojtěch Haňka, that lighten the opus not only in its multilayered
articulation, but also is the radiation of its mystical pulp. I
recommend to everybody listen to on bended knees, personally, I
cannot sufficiently cloyed with transcendent offensive of that
prayer, full of steep ontologic abysses and eschatological
monumentality. I am astonished and scorched. Thanks. Opus magnum.
Amen.
M.J.