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Fans of Will Todd's jazz-soul style will be delighted to learn that he has now written a substantial work for Passiontide, Passion Music. . . . This is the work of a confident composer. The...
Special offer. Todd, Will: Passion Music
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Fans of Will Todd's jazz-soul style will be delighted to learn that he has now written a substantial work for Passiontide, Passion Music. . . . This is the work of a confident composer. The...
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for female gospel soloist, SATB, and jazz ensemble Passion Music continues the fusion of jazz and choral music so successfully blended in Todd's Mass in Blue. The structure highlights different points in the Passion story, including a new setting of 'Greater love has no man' and an evocative Stabat Mater.
Contents
- 1 Greater love has no man
- 2 I give you a new commandment
- 3 There is a green hill far away
- 4 My song is love unknown
- 5 Stabat Mater
- 6 Seven last words
- 7 My love has died for me
- 8 Do not stand at my grave and weep
- 9 Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
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Fans of Will Todd's jazz-soul style will be delighted to learn that he has now written a substantial work for Passiontide, Passion Music. . . . This is the work of a confident composer. The nine movements have at their heart a vibrant setting of the Seven Last Words; and Todd has the confidence to link these outbursts with his own text. The musical vocabulary is absolutely self-assured, leading us through a great variety of moods. The composer also has the self-belief to take old, familiar words and give them new tunes . . . Next Easter, if not Bach, why not Todd
Although the faster movements (such as 'A new commandment') rock along with tremendous rhythmic verve, it is the unaccompanied moments of relative stillness which are especially affecting, for example 'My love has died for me
