Haenssler Classic will publish all four new Passions premiered last year in
Stuttgart.  The Helmuth Rilling-Stuttgart Bachakademie project - marking
the 250th anniversary of Bach's death - includes Osvaldo Golijov's " La
Pasion Segun San Marcos" (based on the Gospel According to St.  Mark),
which received its US premiere in Boston last month.

Golijov's work will also open next year's Oregon Bach Festival, where
Rilling has been music director since the beginning of the festival in
1970.

The Haenssler series will be published beginning next month, with Wolfgang
Rihm's "Deus Passus" (based on St.  Luke), conducted by Rilling, with
Juliana Banse, Iris Vermillion, Cornelia Kallisch, Christoph Pregardien,
and Andreas Schmidt.

Next, the Golijov, conducted by Maria Guinand, of the Venezuelan Bach
Academy, (who will be on the podium again in Eugene next year), with the
Schola Cantorum de Caracas; then Sofia Gubaidulina's "St.  John Passion,"
with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky orchestra and choir; and finally,
Tan Dun's "St. Matthew Passion," conducted by the composer.

Another Rilling-Haenssler project, the commissioned Pendereczky "Credo,"
which received a Grammy Award this year, will be reprised in Eugene last
year, to close the 2002 Oregon Bach Festival, which begins with the Golijov
Passion.  This year's Oregon Bach "bookends" will have the Verdi "Messa per
Rossini" opening the festival and the Verdi's Requiem closing it.

Janos Gereben/SF, CA
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