Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D
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    • Pilgrimage 2: Wales and Ireland >
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The Passions of J.S. Bach: St. Matthew and St. John

Arguably the greatest musical compositions ever created, the two surviving Passions of J.S. Bach ( there were perhaps as many as four that he wrote), these are works I have listened to and studied with devotion for the past twenty-two years. I know I will never get to the end of understanding them, and I can seldom make it through an entire performance (live or recorded) without being shaken to my emotional core. 

John Eliot Gardiner's version is my favorite videotaped performance of the St. John Passion. Below is also the stirring rendition of "Mache diche mein Herze rien" by the phenomenal bass Thomas Quasthoff, and an excerpt of the dramatic staging of the St Matthew Passion by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. How I wish I had been able to see this live!a
Contact Kayleen Asbo: mythicamuse@gmail.com
  • Untitled
  • Pilgrimages
    • The Blessing Thread 1: Mary Magdalene and the Contemplative Tradition: Provence
    • Pilgrimage 2: Wales and Ireland >
      • Beginning Your Pilgrimage
      • Schedule and Links
      • Doll Making with Polly Paton Brown
    • The Way of the Hermit >
      • Day One: Pythagoras and Archetypes
      • Day Two: From the Desert to the Skelligs
      • Day Three: Hildegard, Julian and Francis
    • Dante Retreat >
      • Welcome letter
      • Session One: Love, Loss and Longing
      • Session Two: Hot Sins
      • Session Three: Where Our Hearts Grow Cold
      • Session Four: Arriving on the Shores of Humility
      • Session Five: Returning to Innocence
  • The Heroine's Path
    • Ariadne's Thread
    • Queens of Heaven and Earth
    • The Map of the Heroine's Path
  • Online Classes
    • 22 Days of Magdalene
    • The Mystic Path and Poetry of T.S. Eliot >
      • Week One: Prophet of Despair
      • Week Two: Beethoven, Dante and Eliot
      • Burnt Norton
  • Coaching
  • About