{"product_id":"barbara-hannigan_la-passione_2020","title":"La passione","description":"The starting point of the third recording that Barbara Hannigan is making for Alpha is a work by Gérard Grisey (1946-1998) that is particularly dear to her: \"I conceived the Quatre Chants to cross the threshold,\" the composer writes, \"as a musical meditation on death in four parts: the death of the angel, the death of civilization, the death of the voice, and the death of humanity. (...) The chosen texts belong to four civilizations (Christian, Egyptian, Greek, Mesopotamian) and share a fragmented discourse on the inevitability of death.\" Luigi Nono (1924-1990) is a committed composer. A striking monody, a true heart-wrenching cry for solo soprano, Djamila Boupacha – who was also portrayed in charcoal by Picasso – was an Algerian fighter, tortured by French paratroopers during the war. Still in \"sung\/conducted\" with her friends from the Ludwig Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan completes this 20th-century diptych with a classical symphony by the master of the genre, Joseph Haydn, who also addresses the theme of the Passion and for which she offers a very intense and personal interpretation...","brand":"Barbara Hannigan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58276267229528,"sku":null,"price":24049297.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3760014195860.jpg?v=1787697603","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/barbara-hannigan_la-passione_2020","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}