Three Passion Meditations
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Wind Trio
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Reflections along the road to the Cross...
Program note:
These are three musical interludes that I originally sketched out to play on the piano at a Good Friday service, where they were interwoven with a dramatization of the Passion narrative. I re-wrote them as three short meditations for alto flute, clarinet, and bass clarinet, especially for a performance in Z Ward, an disused asylum built in 1885 for the "criminally insane".
The walls of Z Ward have enclosed a lot of hidden human suffering in their time. In reflecting on this, and on our feeble and ever-failing attempts to overcome such darkness, I was led to remember the Cross of Christ. This is where Christians believe that in Jesus – “a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” – God met not just the sin but the suffering of the world head on, and overcame it by suffering it himself. “Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows” (Isaiah 53:4). © David John Lang 2022 This piece was commissioned by Recitals Australia for the 2022 ReClassified Festival. The video above is of the premiere performance, given by Melanie Walters (alto flute), Dean Newcomb (clarinet) and Mitch Berick (bass clarinet), recorded by Antony Coppens.
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