Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245

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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245

Label:

Glossa

Catalogue No:

GCD921113

Discs:

2

Release date:

28th Feb 2011

Barcode:

8424562211131

Length:

1 hour 50 minutes

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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245

Markus Schäfer (Evangelist), Thomas Oliemans (Jesus), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Michael Chance (alto), Marcel Beekman (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)

Cappella Amsterdam & Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Brüggen (direction)

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One of the many delights coming from Frans Brüggen’s distinguished career has been the understanding which he brings to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach – such as here with the St. John Passion – whether on the concert platform or on record. Brüggen’s cultured feeling for Bach’s musical structures as much as for its style and expressive content permits a textural clarity enjoyed by few of his directing colleagues. A special wealth of experience in the music of Bach has also been gained by the members of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century across the three decades of its existence and as part of its regular concert series (there have now been over a hundred of these tours!) and with a concentrated opportunity to focus on one work, Bach’s masterpiece was performed and recorded in Spring 2010.

Also of special note on this new recording is the presence of a solo group comprising both distinguished and rising talents, led by Markus Schäfer as the Evangelist and Thomas Oliemans as Jesus, and with Michael Chance and Marcel Beekman singing arias together with the added luxury of the present-day 'Bach bass' par excellence in Peter Kooij and the radiant-voiced Carolyn Sampson. Choral support comes from the Cappella Amsterdam, also present (as was Peter Kooij) on another of Frans Brüggen’s recent revisitings for Glossa and The Grand Tour of the glories of Bach’s choral music, the B minor Mass.

Johann Sebastian Bach: St John Passion, BWV 245

playPart I: Chorale: Herr, unser Herrscher (Chorus)

playPart I: Recitative: Jesus ging mit seinen Jungern (Evangelist) - Wen suchet ihr? (Evangelist, Jesus) - Jesum von Nazareth! (Chorus)

playPart I: Chorale: O grosse Lieb (Chorus)

playPart I: Recitative: Auf dass das Wort erfullet wurde (Evangelist, Jesus) - Strecke dein Schwert in die Scheide! (Evangelist, Jesus)

playPart I: Chorale: Dein Will gescheh, Herr Gott, zugleich (Chorus)

playPart I: Recitative: Die Schar aber und der Oberhauptmann (Evangelist)

playPart I: Aria: Von den Strikken meiner Sunden (Alto)

playPart I: Recitative: Simon Petrus aber folgete Jesu nach (Evangelist)

playPart I: Aria: Ich folge dir gleichfalls (Soprano)

playPart I: Recitative: Derselbige Junger war (Evangelist) - Bist du nicht dieses Menschen Junger einer? (Chorus) - Ich bin's nicht! - (Evangelist, Magd, Petrus)

playPart I: Chorale: Wer hat dich so geschlagen (Chorus)

playPart I: Recitative: Und Hannas sandte ihn gebunden (Evangelist) - Ich bin nicht - Sahe ich dich (Evangelist, Petrus, Deiner) - Bist du nicht (Chorus)

playPart I: Aria: Ach, mein Sinn, wo willt du endlich hin (Tenor)

playPart I: Chorale: Petrus, der nicht denkt zuruck (Chorus)

playPart II: Chorale: Christus, der uns selig macht (Chorus)

playPart II: Recitative: Da fuhreten sie Jesum - Was bringet ihr - Redest du das (Evangelist, Pilatus, Jesus) - Ware dieser nicht ein (Chorus)

playPart II: Chorale: Ach grosser Konig (Chorus)

playPart II: Recitative: Da sprach Pilatus zu ihm - So bist du dennoch - Was is Wahrheit? (Evangelist, Jesus, Pilatus) - Nicht diesen (Chorus)

playPart II: Arioso: Betrachte, meine Seel (Bass)

playPart II: Aria: Erwage, wie sein blutgefarbter Rucken (Tenor)

playPart II: Recitative: Und die kriegsknechte flochten - Sehet, ich fuhre - Du hattest keine (Evangelist, Pilatus, Jesus) - Sei gegrubet (Chorus)

playPart II: Chorale: Durch dein Gefangnis, Gottes Sohn (Chorus)

playPart II: Recitative: Die Juden aber schrieen (Evangelist) - Sehet, das ist euer Konig! (Evangelist, Pilatus) - Lassest du diesen los (Chorus)

playPart II: Aria: Eilt, ihr angefochtnen Seelen (Bass) - Eilt - Wohin? (Chorus)

playPart II: Recitative: Allda kreuzigten sie ihn - Was ich geschrieden habe (Evangelist, Pilatus) - Schreibe nicht (Chorus)

playPart II: Chorale: In meines Herzens Grunde (Chorus)

playPart II: Recitative: Die Kriegsknechte aber - Lasset uns den nicht zerteilen - Auf dass erfullet wurde die Schrift (Evangelist, Jesus, Chorus)

playPart II: Chorale: Er nahm alles wohl in acht (Chorus)

playPart II: Recitative: Und von Stund an - Mich durstet! (Evangelist, Jesus)

playPart II: Aria: Es ist vollbracht (Alto)

playPart II: Recitative: Und neigte das Haupt und verschied (Evangelist)

playPart II: Aria: Mein teurer Heiland (Bass) - Jesu, der du warest tot (Chorus)

playPart II: Recitative: Und siehe da, der Vorhang (Evangelist)

playPart II: Arioso: Mein Herz, indem die ganze Welt (Tenor)

playPart II: Aria: Zerfliesse, mein Herze (Soprano)

playPart II: Recitative: Die Juden aber (Evangelist)

playPart II: Chorale: O hilf, Christe, Gottes Sohn (Chorus)

playPart II: Recitative: Darnach bat Pilatum (Evangelist)

playPart II: Chorale: Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine (Chorus)

playPart II: Chorale: Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein (Chorus)

International Record Review

April 2011

“This is a most moving performance. It is beautifully conducted by Franz Brüggen, unfolding with a natural expressiveness that is never short on drama but avoid the slash-and-burn vigour of some other period-instruments versions...Schäfer is a most involving story-teller - this is a really vibrant narrative, but he creates urgency without reosting to any expressive extremes...This is a very special recording”

Gramophone Magazine

June 2011

“This 'live' recording will gladden the heart of anyone who is weary of the small-scale, one-to-a-part performances that have become fashionable in recent years. Cappella Amsterdam numbers only 24 singers but they produce plenty of decibels when required...Schäfer paces his recitatives well, his tone reminiscent of Peter Schreier's...Carolyn Sampson dispatches her two arias in style.”

BBC Music Magazine

June 2011

****

“Brüggen bases this performance on the 1724 original version - retaining noticeably brisk tempos for the concluding chorus and chorale as though already party to the message of Easter...Beyond praise...is Carolyn Sampson whose two arias are utterly spell-binding, and at an almost dangerously slow tempo, the alto and gamba 'Es ist vollbracht' entwinings of Michael Chance and Rainer Zipperling hang plangently in the air, an epiphany of unassuageable grief”

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