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Bach, J.S.: St. Matthew Passion

9/21/2006, 68 Tracks, 2:40:59

Featuring

  • Helmut Müller-Brühl
  • Claudia Couwenbergh
  • Dominique Engler
  • Yosemeh Adjei
  • Marianne Beate Kielland
  • Nico van der Meel
  • Markus Schäfer
  • Lothar Blum
  • Raimund Nolte
  • Locky Chung
  • Hanno Müller-Brachmann
  • Julian Schulzki
  • Hans-Christoph Rademann
  • Eberhard Metternich
  • Kölner Kammerorchester
  • Dresdner Kammerchor
  • Knabenschola des Kölner Domchores
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

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Recording & Production

This recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion was made in May 2005 in the Sendesaal des Funkhauses Köln, a co-production with DeutschlandRadio, Cologne.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The St Matthew Passion is scored for two choirs and two orchestras, a division physically possible in the Church of St Thomas in Leipzig where it was first performed.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Bach composed five Passion settings, but only those based on the Gospels of St Matthew and St John have survived.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

J.S. Bach, the composer, lived and studied music with his elder brother in Ohrdruf after the death of both his parents at the age of ten.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The St Matthew Passion was first performed on Good Friday, either in 1727 or 1729, and later revised in 1736 and 1740.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The text of the St Matthew Passion combines the Gospel of St Matthew in Martin Luther's translation with newly written recitatives, arias, and chorales by Picander, the pseudonym of Christian Friedrich Henrici.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Cologne Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1923, played on period instruments as Capella Clementina from 1976 to 1987, setting a standard for historical performance practice.

Source: Booklet

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