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J S Bach - St Matthew Passion | Challenge Classics CC72357

J S Bach - St Matthew Passion

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Label: Challenge Classics

Cat No: CC72357

Barcode: 0608917235722

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 29th March 2010

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Contents

Artists

Christoph Genz
Jan van der Crabben
La Petite Bande

Conductor

Sigiswald Kuijken

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

St Matthew Passion, BWV244

Artists

Christoph Genz
Jan van der Crabben
La Petite Bande

Conductor

Sigiswald Kuijken

About

This new Hybrid SACD recording of J S Bach’s great choral masterpiece has been produced by one of the great early music partnerships of recent times, the vocal and orchestral ensemble La Petite Bande and its artistic director Sigiswald Kuijken. Incorporating an approach based on recent scholarship, the St Matthew Passion is performed here with a small number of soloists and instrumentalists. It features Christoph Genz as the Evangelist and Jan van der Crabben as Jesus.

Twenty years ago La Petite Bande, (at that time with conductor Gustav Leonhardt and Sigiswald Kuijken as concertmaster), released their first recording of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. It was made with soloists, a chamber choir and an orchestra large enough to accommodate those vocal forces. Since then Kuijken's vision on this masterpiece has changed markedly, as ground-breaking musicological research of the last decades has led him to cut down the size of the ensemble used in performance. There is not a real choir anymore because the soloists also perform the choir parts, and the boy’s choir that is used in most performances of this Passion is replaced here by a single soprano voice.

A 120-page booklet, featuring the lyrics plus translations into English, is included.

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