Passion Prayers (1999)
For solo cello and 6 instruments (flute, clarinet, violin, piano, harp, percussion)
Commissioned by The Network for New Music
Premiered The Network for New Music, Jan Kryzwicki conducting, Scott Kluksdahl cellist, on 11 April 1999
Duration: 9 minutes
Selected reviews
Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe
"Augusta Read Thomas's Passion Prayers is an extraordinarily lustrous and intensely mystical piece with a radiant shimmer that recalls the music of Olivier Messiaen, although Thomas's means are her own. The chief meditator is the cello, which draws the other six instruments into its ecstatic orbit."
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