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Offer,Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245

Mark Padmore (Evangelist/tenor arias), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (Jesus), Peter Harvey (Pilatus/bass arias), Joanna Lunn (soprano - 'Ich folge dir gleichfells'), Katharine Fuge (soprano - Ancilla and 'Zerfliesse, mein Herze'), Bernarda Fink (alto), Julian Clarkson (Petrus), Robert Murray (Servus I),...

To borrow a phrase used more than one by Gardiner, his is a reading which lives viscerally in the 'here and now'...throughout, the Monteverdi Choir is typically alert and tautly-sprung. Crowd... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Feb 2011
Catalogue No: SDG712
Label: SDG
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245

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Joanne Lunn, Katherine Fuge, Bernarda Fink, Mark Padmore, Robert Murray, Paul Tindall, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Peter Harvey, Julian Clarkson
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Pt. I: Chorale. Herr, unser Herrscher (Chorus)

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Pt. I: Recitative. Jesus ging mit seinen Jungern (Evangelist, Jesus) – Jesum von Nazareth [Chorus] – Recitative. Jesus spricht ze ihnen [Evangelist, Jesus] – Jesum von Nazareth [Chorus] – Recitative. Jesus antwortete [Evangelist, Jesus]

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Pt. I: Chorale. O grosse Lieb (Chorus)

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Pt. I: Recitative. Auf dass das Wort erfullet wurde (Evangelist, Jesus)

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

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

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Pt. I: Aria. Von den Stricken meiner Sunden (Alto)

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

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Pt. I: Aria. Ich folge dir gleichfalls (Soprano)

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Pt. I: Recitative. Derselbige Junger war dem Hohenpriester bekannt (Evangelist, Ancilla, Petrus, Jesus, Servus)

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Pt. I: Chorale. Wer hat dich so geschlagen (Chorus)

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Pt. I: Recitative. Und Hannas sandte ihn gebunden (Evangelist) - Bist du nicht seiner Junger einer [Chorus] – Recitative. Er leugnete aber und sprach [Evangelist, Petrus, Servus]

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Pt. I: Aria. Ach, mein Sinn (Tenor)

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

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

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Pt. II: Recitative. Da fuhreten sie Jesum (Evangelist, Pilatus) - Ware dieser nicht ein Ubeltater [Chorus]

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Pt. II: Chorale. Ach, grosser Konig (Chorus)

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Pt. II: Chorale. Da sprach Pilatus zu ihm (Evangelist, Pilatus, Jesus) - Nicht diesen, sondern Barrabam [Chorus] – Recitative. Barrabas aber war ein Morder [Evangelist]

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Pt. II: Arioso. Betrachte, meine Seel (Bass)

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

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Pt. II: Recitative. Und die Kriegsknechte flochten eine Krone (Evangelist) - Sei gegrusset, lieber Judenkonig [Chorus] – Recitative. Und gaben ihm Backenstreiche [Evangelist, Pilatus] - Kreuzige, Kreuzige [Chorus] …

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

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Pt. II: Recitative. Die Juden aber schrieen und sprachen (Evangelist) - Lassest du diesen los [Chorus] – Recitative. Da Pilatus das Wort horete [Evangelist, Pilatus] – Weg, weg mit dem [Chorus] – Recitative. Spricht Pilatus zu ihnen [Evangelist, Pilatus]

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Pt. II: Aria. Eilt, ihr angefochtnen Seelen (Bass, Chorus)

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Pt. II: Recitative. Allda kreuzigten sei ihn (Evangelist) - Schreibe nicht: Der Juden Konig [Chorus] – Recitative. Pilatus antwortet [Evangelist, Pilatus]

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Pt. II: Chorale. In meines Herzens Grunde (Chorus)

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

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

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Pt. II: Recitative. Und von Stund an nahm sie der Junger (Evangelist, Jesus)

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Pt. II: Aria. Es ist vollbracht (Alto)

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Pt. II: Recitative. Und neiget das Haupt (Evangelist)

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Pt. II: Aria. Mein teurer Heiland, lass dich fragen (Bass, Chorus)

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Pt. II: Recitative. Und siehe da, der Vorhang im Tempel zerriss (Evangelist)

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

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Pt. II: Aria. Zerfliesse, mein Herze (Soprano)

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Pt. II: Recitative. Die Juden aber, dieweil es der Rusttag war (Evangelist)

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

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Pt. II: Recitative. Darnach bat Pilatum Joseph von Arimathia (Evangelist)

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

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

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This album was recorded in Königslutter in 2003.

The booklet contains original notes by John Eliot Gardiner and texts in German, English and French.

Considered to be an expressive and intimate oratorio, the St John Passion was conceived by Bach both as a work of art and an act of worship in itself.

It has a subtle balance between narrative and contemplative, juxtaposing vivid re-enactment and dramatic scene-setting in the ariosos and arias, with stretches of exposition of its meaning in chorales.

The music is in turns evocative, stirring, exultant and profoundly moving. It forces the listener to contemplate the complexities of the Passion story. Regardless of one’s religious view, it captures our attention from beginning to end.

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The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Reviews

July 2011

To borrow a phrase used more than one by Gardiner, his is a reading which lives viscerally in the 'here and now'...throughout, the Monteverdi Choir is typically alert and tautly-sprung. Crowd scenes crackle with indignation...while the chorales are loving sculpted around a close reading of the texts...Padmore's Evangelist holds the whole together with the supple, hypnotic élan of a born story-teller...Truly this is a jewel beyond price.

June 2011

Gardiner sets the waves gently but urgently lapping in a perfectly judged opening...Padmore's Evangelist is commanding, tireless and beautifully enunciated...There surely cannot be a better account on record. From first to last Gardiner imparts his love for the work and it comes across. The performers share his view and so do we. The liveness of the recording is palpable.

26th February 2011

These performances, taped at the end of an English Baroque Soloists tour in 2006, exude a tremendous sense of common purpose and an un-dogmatic stylistic assurance...Gardiner gets the music to “speak” without ever sounding fussy. In short, he achieves that rare feat of revitalising the familiar.

June 2011

Padmore's Evangelist is both ringingly true and acutely observed...perhaps the most disarming quality overall is that Gardiner's understanding of devotional ritual - drawn unquestionably from his unique Pilgrimage a few years earlier - translates into a new world, not wrinkle-free but one where sadness and hope seem to hover as tantalisingly in this work as I have heard.

Offer,Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245

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