What is the podcast about?
What happens to us the moment we listen to the Mätthaus-Passion? How can Bach’s passion hold up a mirror to its listeners? How can work take us by the hand on our life’s journey?
That you can be spiritual with both feet on the ground shows theologian Ad de Keyzer. In a conversation between him, chief conductor Daniel Reuss and musicologist Maartje Stokkers, he explains how the age-old spiritual reading practice “lectio divina” works and how through it one can understand the St. Matthew Passion.
Listen in to these two podcast episodes with Ad de Keyzer and enrich your experience of the St. Matthew Passion.
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Ad de Keyzer studied theology at the Catholic University in Utrecht. He received his doctorate from the University of Nijmegen in 1999. Ad de Keyzer works as a scientific collaborator at the Titus Brandsma Institute in Nijmegen in the field of liturgical spirituality.
Maartje Stokkers is a Dutch musicologist and radio host. She studied musicology at the University of Amsterdam. She also studied music history at the University of Perugia. During her studies, she did an internship at the AVRO’s Internet art and classical editorial department.
From 2005 to 2018, Maartje Stokkers was a regular presenter on NPO Radio 4. Among other programs, she presented The Friday of Vredenburg, The Sunday Afternoon Concert and the radio broadcast of the Prinsengracht Concert.
Daniel Reuss has been artistic director and chief conductor of Cappella Amsterdam, in which he had been singing for many years when he acquired that position. As a guest conductor, Daniel Reuss makes music with companies throughout Europe, including the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, MusikFabrik, Vocal Consort Berlin, Collegium Vocale Gent and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
He has been chief conductor of the RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin (2003-2006) and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (2008-2013), among others, and has been permanent guest conductor of the Ensemble Vocal Lausanne since June 2015.
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The musical excerpts to be heard
- Marie-Henriette Reinhold: Rademann, Gaechinger Kantorei, Accentus, 2021. Mir hat die Welt trüglich gericht
- See 1.
- Ditto. Ah! Nun ist mein Jesus hin!
- Herman Finkers, After the Break, 2009. Up there in heaven
- Patrick Grahl and Peter Harvey: Rademann, Gaechinger Kantorei, Accentus, 2021. Da versammleten sich die Hohenpriester und Schriftgelehrten
- Reinhold: Rademann, Gaechinger Kantorei, Accentus, 2021. Du lieber Heiland du
- Ditto. Buß und Reu
- Grahl and Harvey: Rademann, Gaechinger Kantorei, Accentus, 2021. Aber am ersten Tage der süßen Brot
- Ditto. Ich bin’s ich sollte büßen
- Ditto. Und da sie den Lobgesang gesprochen hatten
- Rademann, Gaechinger Kantorei, Accentus, 2021. Erkenne mich, mein Hüter
- Grahl and Harvey: Rademann, Gaechinger Kantorei, Accentus, 2021. Petrus aber antwortete und sprach zu ihm
- Rademann, Gaechinger Kantorei, Accentus, 2021. Ich will hier bei dir stehen
- Patrick Grahl and Andrey Akhmetov: Rademann, Gaechinger Kantorei, Accentus, 2021. Petrus aber sass draussen im Palast
- Marianne Beate Kielland: Pasketid, Lawo Classics, 2015. Erbarme dich
