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Dickinson: The Judas Tree
Richard Dirksen
The singers are well deserving of praise, the apostles in particular, and the chorus enliven the drama with their spirited singing, despite the restrictive recording...The Judas Tree may be...
Dickinson: The Judas Tree
Richard Dirksen
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The singers are well deserving of praise, the apostles in particular, and the chorus enliven the drama with their spirited singing, despite the restrictive recording...The Judas Tree may be...
About
The Judas Tree is the fruit of a collaboration between the poet Thomas Blackburn (1916– 77) and composer Peter Dickinson. The Washington Cathedral performance is captured here.
Blackburn explores the role of Judas in the events leading up to Christ’s passion and death. The varied types of music are deliberately designed to exploit Blackburn’s telling imagery.
Contents and tracklist
- Carl Schurr, Chris Saradon, Camerata Chorus, Peter Vogt, Robert Betts, David Richards
- Camerata Orchestra
- Richard W. Dirksen
Awards and reviews
August 2014
The singers are well deserving of praise, the apostles in particular, and the chorus enliven the drama with their spirited singing, despite the restrictive recording...The Judas Tree may be a period piece but it is a fascinating one, a slice of 1960s memorabilia from that extraordinary cultural decade.
November 2014
This is another of Dickinson’s pieces that is emphatically worth hearing – often disturbing and often moving.
Musical Opinion Autumn 2014
This remarkable work, now approaching half a century since it was written, will surely come as a epiphanal discovery to many listeners...The performance is compelling and wholly convincing, well recorded…the sound is excellent – and one’s only reservation is why is this impressive piece not better known? It most certainly deserves to be.
