At just 19 years old, Grammy award winning Iranian American Jewish-Christian composer Richard Danielpour had a strange mystical experience that left him awed and shaken, but with new clarity in his faith and life’s purpose as a composer. His powerful and deeply spiritual music made him one of the most beloved and recorded composers of his generation, yet he still struggled to complete the spiritual quest assigned to him during that epiphany those many years ago--to tell the story of the last hours of Jesus of Nazareth from the perspective of his Middle Eastern Jewish followers--not that of his later European interpreters. After more than 25 years of internal struggle, Danielpour’s magnum opus, The Passion of Yeshua, an oratorio written in both Hebrew and English, had its premier in 2018. On this episode of CS, Richard Danielpour joins Tarik and Anna to tell his story and share some of his favorite moments from the new Naxos recording of this monumental work, released in March 2020. Special thanks to Naxos Records and Bill Holab and Lean Kat Music (BMI) for allowing us to play this recording.
https://www.naxos.com/feature/Danielpour-The-Passion-of-Yeshua.asp
Danielpour, The Passion of Yeshua
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