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Oct 2, 2026
Sophie Maria WeberGUEST
So for these parts of the, the Passion, um, you always have a four-part instrumental, um, arrangement.
Sophie Maria WeberGUEST
And, uh, at the other, um, with the other parts, um, he was a adding person [laughs] w- in regards to instruments.
Sophie Maria WeberGUEST
So for almost all of his Passions, Passion adaptations, he added, um, uh, brass instruments or woodwind instruments and timpani and sometimes a clarinet and...
Sophie Maria WeberGUEST
Yeah, so there he wrote, um, not very complicated or, yeah, um, uh, parts, but he wrote new parts for existing music to, to, um, uh, make the orchestra a bit larger.
Darina AbloginaHOST
To make it better.
Sophie Maria WeberGUEST
Um, so what is interesting that if people think about Baroque Passion, um, everybody will think about Johann Sebastian Bach.
Sophie Maria WeberGUEST
But in fact, it was Georg Philipp Telemann who was the Passion composer.
Sophie Maria WeberGUEST
Um, so he composed, I think, 44, um, Passions during his time as a-
Will ToddGUEST
Um, why did I write it, or why did I choose it? Well- I mentioned Mass in Blue, which was my first big, um, jazz, extended jazz choral work.
Will ToddGUEST
And there's a, a sister work to that, which is a piece called Passion Music, which I think you-
SophieHOST
Yes
Will ToddGUEST
... recorded that piece as well with St Martin's, um, which is an Easter-themed
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Will ToddGUEST
Yes.
Will ToddGUEST
You, you, you want, uh, you want a kind of, in a sense, an iconic performance that people go, "Wow, that's great," and then they can, it can inspire them, um, to do stuff.
Will ToddGUEST
You know, and I, I do Mass, going back to Mass in Blue and Passion Music, which I perform a lot in all sorts of different places, um, really you, you're always hearing the echoes of the recording.
Will ToddGUEST
Always.