Johann Sebastian Bach - St. Matthew Passion - John Eliot Gardiner - BWV 244
Johann Sebastian Bach - St. Matthew Passion - John Eliot Gardiner - BWV 244
Johann Sebastian Bach - Matthäus-Passion - John Eliot Gardiner - BWV 244
APE+CUE+Cover | 1989 | CD1 66'03" - CD2 50'01" - CD3 41'20" | Baroque Period / Oratorio | RAR (14 parts)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Matthäus-Passion - John Eliot Gardiner - BWV 244
APE+CUE+Cover | 1989 | CD1 66'03" - CD2 50'01" - CD3 41'20" | Baroque Period / Oratorio | RAR (14 parts)
Performers:
Andreas Schmidt
Michael Chance
Ann Monoyios
Barbara Bonney
Anne Sofie von Otter
Howard Crook
Olaf Bär
Cornelius Hauptmann
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir
London Oratory Junior Choir
Andreas Schmidt
Michael Chance
Ann Monoyios
Barbara Bonney
Anne Sofie von Otter
Howard Crook
Olaf Bär
Cornelius Hauptmann
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra/Ensemble:
English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir
London Oratory Junior Choir
Bach's St. Matthew Passion was probably written in 1727. Only two of the four (or five) settings of the Passion which Bach wrote have survived; the other is the St. John Passion. The St. Matthew Passion was first performed on either Good Friday 1727 or Good Friday 1729 in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, where Bach was the cantor. He revised it by 1736, performing it again on March 30, 1736, this time including two organs in the instrumentation.
The St. Matthew Passion was not heard outside of Leipzig until 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn performed an abbreviated version of it in Berlin, to great acclaim. Mendelssohn's revival of the St. Matthew Passion brought the music of Bach, particularly the large-scale works, to a public and scholarly attention that has persisted into the present era.
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