The Little Match Girl Passion
The Little Match Girl Passion is a choral work by David Lang, based on the 1845 Hans Christian Andersen story, "The Little Match Girl". It is influenced by Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion and won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2008. The first performance was given at Carnegie Hall on 27 October 2007 with the Theatre of Voices conducted by Paul Hillier. It is scored for chamber choir and four solo singers who also play simple percussion. A recording was issued by Harmonia Mundi in August 2009.
In his program note, David Lang writes:
