JS Bach: St Matthew Passion
Christian Rathgeber (tenor), Johannes Hill (bass), Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Jasmin Hörner (soprano), Florian Küppers (bass), Nohad Becker (alto), Petra Morath-Pusinelli (organ), Georg Poplutz (tenor), Matthias Winckhler (bass), Jan Čižmář (lute), Sabine Bauer (harpsichord), Gerhild Romberger...
Recorded in the Evangelical Protestant Christuskirche in Mainz, the choir and orchestra’s home, the performance has a liturgical feel. It is scrupulously faithful to the Bärenreiter edition...
JS Bach: St Matthew Passion
Christian Rathgeber (tenor), Johannes Hill (bass), Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Jasmin Hörner (soprano), Florian Küppers (bass), Nohad Becker (alto), Petra Morath-Pusinelli (organ), Georg Poplutz (tenor), Matthias Winckhler (bass), Jan Čižmář (lute), Sabine Bauer (harpsichord), Gerhild Romberger...
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Recorded in the Evangelical Protestant Christuskirche in Mainz, the choir and orchestra’s home, the performance has a liturgical feel. It is scrupulously faithful to the Bärenreiter edition...
About
Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion is widely recognised as one of the greatest masterpieces in Western sacred music. With its double orchestra and chorus this is a work of enormous proportions in every sense, and Bach was extremely resourceful in treading a fine line between creating the almost operatic spectacle valued by the secular authorities in Leipzig, and the elevated religious atmosphere sought by the clergy. This inspired mix of moving drama and theological discourse led Leonard Bernstein to declare that ‘there is nothing like it in all of music’.
Artists
Christian Rathgeber (tenor), Johannes Hill (bass), Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Jasmin Hörner (soprano), Florian Küppers (bass), Nohad Becker (alto), Petra Morath-Pusinelli (organ), Georg Poplutz (tenor), Matthias Winckhler (bass), Jan Čižmář (lute), Sabine Bauer (harpsichord), Gerhild Romberger (alto), Daniel Ochoa (bass), Julia Kleiter (soprano), Christian Wagner (bass), Daniel Sans (tenor), Bachchor Mainz, Bachorchester Mainz, Ralf Otto
Contents and tracklist
- Christian Rathgeber (tenor), Johannes Hill (bass), Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Jasmin Hörner (soprano), Florian Küppers (bass), Nohad Becker (alto), Petra Morath-Pusinelli (organ), Georg Poplutz (tenor), Matthias Winckhler (bass), Jan Čižmář (lute), Sabine Bauer (harpsichord), Gerhild Romberger (alto), Daniel Ochoa (bass), Julia Kleiter (soprano), Christian Wagner (bass), Daniel Sans (tenor)
- Bachchor Mainz, Bachorchester Mainz
- Ralf Otto
- Recorded: 26 March - 4 April 2018
- Recording Venue: Christuskirche, Mainz, Germany
Awards and reviews
July 2019
Recorded in the Evangelical Protestant Christuskirche in Mainz, the choir and orchestra’s home, the performance has a liturgical feel. It is scrupulously faithful to the Bärenreiter edition of the 1736 score – every detail is fastidiously crafted, the soloists are of consistently high quality and the period-instrument orchestra plays beautifully.