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Bach - Johannes Passion, BWV 245 (Stephen Cleobury) [1996] *Re-Up*

Posted By: Aregak
Bach - Johannes Passion, BWV 245 (Stephen Cleobury) [1996] *Re-Up*

Bach - Johannes Passion, BWV 245 (Ainsley, Richardson, Bott, Chance, Agnew, Varcoe;
King's College Choir Cambridge, The Brandenburg Consort, Stephen Cleobury) [1996]

EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | Covers | 2cd, 612 MB
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | Catalog Number: A911 | TT: CD1: 72’36, CD2: 64’18

Most of us come to the Saint John Passion knowing the Saint Matthew Passion first. The bigger and more elaborate Saint Matthew, which came along three, or possibly five years later (there is controversy about the date), has tended to cast a shadow in which the earlier work is swallowed up, and this has been so ever since Mendelssohn's Saint Matthew performance in 1829 marked the beginning of the public rediscovery of J.S. Bach. (The professionals had never forgotten.) But if the Saint John is smaller in scale than the Saint Matthew, it is hardly the lesser work in quality, though it would of course be silly to claim that the master of the Saint Matthew Passion had not learned from the experience of setting Saint John. But the most interesting differences between these two towering attestations of faith are differences in intention. Read Matthew 26-27, Mark 14-15, Luke 22-23, and John 18-19, and you get four tellings of the last days in the life of Jesus that differ in tone, emphasis, and detail. Much of what gives Bach's Saint John Passion its special character, of those qualities that make it a work even more deeply cherished by many who know it well, can be traced to the character of the fourth gospel itself.


The work comprises words and music from many sources. The core of the libretto is Chapters 18 and 19 of the Gospel According to Saint John (in Dr. Martin Luther's German translation). Upon this, Bach superimposes an elaborate body of commentary, and for two reasons, one didactic and religious, the other artistic. Regarding the first, the purpose of performing a Passion on Good Friday was not just to tell the story as vividly and affectingly as possible, but also to teach its meaning. That is the function of the added material. As for the second reason, the interpolated arias and congregational hymns require music very different from that used for the Biblical narrative, and the sustained melodies and stable rhythms provide welcome contrast to the looser, less densely composed reciting styles of the Evangelist and the dramatis personae.

The hymns or chorales, as they are often called, in the Saint John Passion come from several sixteenth- and seventeenth-century hymnals. For the other "editorial" interpolations, Bach went chiefly to Der für die Sünden der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus (Jesus Tortured and Dying for the Sins of the World) by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, a Hamburg senator and polymath, who published this poem, which quickly became immensely famous and popular, in 1712. (The three most important Hamburg composers of that period, Reinhard Keiser, Telemann, and Handel, all set it to music.) Bach's second source was a Passion based on Saint John by another writer from Hamburg, the poet and librettist Christian Heinrich Postel. For the soprano aria "Ich folge dir gleichfalls" (I follow Thee also), Arthur Mendel, who knew more about the Saint John Passion than anybody since Bach, cites as source Der Grünen Jugend Nothwendige Gedanken (Thoughts Necessary to Innocent Youth) by the Saxon poet and playwright Christian Weise. None of these texts is taken over verbatim, and we do not know who adapted them for this libretto. It could have been Bach himself.

Performer:
Tenor [Evangelist]: John Mark Ainsley;
Bass [Jesus]: Stephen Richardson;
Soprano: Catherine Bott;
Alto: Michael Chance;
Tenor: Paul Agnew;
Bass: Stephen Varcoe
King's College Choir Cambridge / The Brandenburg Consort
(Leader: Roy Goodman)
Conducted by Stephen Cleobury

Tracklisting:
CD1
1. Part 1. Chorus. Herr, unser Herrscher (8:33)
2. Recit. Jesus ging mit seinen Jungern (2:28)
3. Chorale. O gross Lieb (0:47)
4. Recit. Auf dass das Wort erfullet wurde (1:07)
5. Chorale. Dein Will gescheh, Herr Gott, zugleich (0:54)
6. Recit. Die Schar aber und der Oberhauptmann (0:53)
7. Aria. Von den Stricken meiner Sunden (4:45)
8. Recit. Simon Petrus aber folgete Jesu nach (0:15)
9. Aria. Ich folge dir gleichfalls mir freudigen Schritten (3:52)
10. Recit. Derselbige Junger war dem Hohenpriester bekannt (3:14)
11. Chorale. Wer hat dich so geschlagen (1:37)
12. Recit. Und Hannas sandte ihn gebunden (2:28)
13. Aria. Ach, mein Sinn (2:27)
14. Chorale. Petrus, der nicht denkt zuruck (1:02)
15. Chorale. Christus, der uns selig macht (1:02)
16. Part 2. Recit. Da fuhreten sie Jesum von Kaipha vor das Richthaus (4:16)
17. Chorale. Ach grosser Konig (1:28)
18. Recit. Da sprach Pilatus zu ihm (2:00)
19. Arioso. Betrachte, meine Seele (2:30)
20. Aria. Erwage, wie sein blurgefarbter Rucken (8:42)
21. Recit. Und die Kriegsknechte flochten eine Krone (5:45)
22. Chorus. Durch dein Gefangnis, Gottes Sohn (0:54)
23. Recit. Die Juden aber schrieen und sprachen (4:14)
24. Aria. Eilt, ihr angefochtnen Seelen (4:05)
25. Recit. Allda kreuzigten sie ihn (2:12)
26. Chorale. In meines Herzens Grunde (1:06)

CD2
1. Part 2. Recit. Die Kriegsknechte aber (3:55)
2. Chorale. Er nahm alles wohl in acht (1:00)
3. Recit. Und von Stund an nahm sie die Junger (1:30)
4. Aria. Es ist vollbracht! (5:28)
5. Recit. Und neiget das Haupt und verschied (0:26)
6. Aria. Mein teurer Heilan, la. dich fragen (4:42)
7. Recit. Und siche da, der Vorhang im Tempel (0:32)
8. Arioso. Mein Herz, indem die ganze Welt (0:57)
9. Aria. Zerfliesse, mein Herze (7:09)
10. Recit. Die Juden aber, dieweil es der Rusttag war (2:17)
11. Chorale. O hilf, Christe, Gottes Sohn (0:56)
12. Recit. Darnach bat Pilatum Joseph von Arimathia (2:16)
13. Chorus. Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine (6:24)
14. Chorale. Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein (1:42)
15. Appendix No.01, Chorale. O Mensch, bewein dein Sunde gross (5:40)
16. Appendix No.11, Aria- Basso. Himmel reisse, Welt erbebe (3:52)
17. Appendix No.13, Aria- Tenore. Zerschmettert mich (5:24)
18. Appendix No.19, Aria- Tenore. Ach windet euch nicht so (6:07)
19. Appendix No.40, Chorale. Christe, du Lamm Gottes (4:01)

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