Bach: St. Matthew Passion
James Gilchrist (Evangelist), Matthew Rose (Jesus), Sophie Bevan (soprano), David Allsopp (countertenor), Mark Le Brocq (tenor), William Gaunt (bass)
Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of King's College Cambridge, King's College School Choir, Stephen Cleobury
Cleobury steers an assured path between our traditional responses to the St Matthew Passion and one which reflects developing performing practices, vocal and instrumental, over the past half...
Bach: St. Matthew Passion
James Gilchrist (Evangelist), Matthew Rose (Jesus), Sophie Bevan (soprano), David Allsopp (countertenor), Mark Le Brocq (tenor), William Gaunt (bass)
Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of King's College Cambridge, King's College School Choir, Stephen Cleobury
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Cleobury steers an assured path between our traditional responses to the St Matthew Passion and one which reflects developing performing practices, vocal and instrumental, over the past half...
About
Recorded before Sir Stephen Cleobury’s untimely passing in November 2019, King’s College presents a new account of one of the greatest masterpieces in sacred music, Bach’s St Matthew Passion. For this recording Cleobury led the King’s Choir and the Academy of Ancient Music alongside some of the most outstanding British singers performing today, headed by one of the finest Evangelists of our time, James Gilchrist. The album is accompanied by a booklet with over 60 pages of texts and photographs, including a full translation by Michael Marissen and a specially-commissioned essay by John Butt.
Contents and tracklist
- Sophie Bevan, William Gaunt, David Allsopp, King's College School Choir, Matthew Rose, Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Cleobury, Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of King's College Cambridge, James Gilchrist
Awards and reviews
June 2020
Cleobury steers an assured path between our traditional responses to the St Matthew Passion and one which reflects developing performing practices, vocal and instrumental, over the past half century…Allsopp’s ‘Erbame dich’ is sensitively nuanced and well-sustained and William Gaunt’s ‘Mache dich’ is beautifully executed…Lovers of the King’s sound will not be disappointed by the choruses and chorales, where producer and engineer have faithfully captured the boys’ voices
September/October 2020
The recorded sound is first-rate. Fans of Cleobury need not hesitate in acquiring this as a memento of and tribute to a great artist whose passing is still mourned.
15th March 2020
King’s has outstanding singers as Evangelist (James Gilchrist) and Jesus (Matthew Rose)...David Allsopp’s singing of [Erbarme Dich] is also a highlight.