Gächinger Kantorei, Helmuth Rilling

• Sofia Gubaidulina: Johannes-Passion (Uraufführung 2007 / Julia Sukmanova, Corby Welch, Bernd Valentin, Nicholas Isherwood, Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Kammerchor der Musikhochschule Trossingen, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling)
  +Osvaldo Golijov: Markus-Passion (Auftragskomposition der Internationalen Bach-Akademie Stuttgart für das Projekt "Passion 2000" / Luciana Souza, Reynaldo Gonzalez Fernandez, Schola Cantorum de Caracas, La Pasion Orchestra, Maria Guinand)

Osvaldo Golijov's Pasion Segun San Marcos is the work of one who moves back and forth between different worlds and can scarcly be pigeonholed as representing a specific culture. His work unites the music of South America, Cuba, the West and Jewish tradition to produce an unconventional concepteion of a ,,Passion" in which Jesus is not a light skinned European, but instead a person of color. Sofia Gubaidulina's response was a St John Passion, and subsequently she added a sequel, St John Easter, which was premiered in Hamburg in March 2002. Both those works originally had Russian words, drawn mostly from St John's gospel and the Book of Revelation, but in 2006, prompted by conductor Helmuth Rilling, Gubaidulina collaborated on a German translation of the text, while also making revisions to the score itself.