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JS Bach - St John Passion
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Label: Phi
Cat No: LPH031
Barcode: 5400439000315
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 14th February 2020
The result is ... a recording that leaves most competitors floundering. Herreweghe’s unswerving focus is evident from the opening chorus, whose elemental summons is exactingly calibrated, dark-grained and resolute. ... ultimately Herreweghe’s is an ensemble triumph, a symbiotic entwining if voice and instruments that brings about repeated moments of wonder. 
From the pounding, grinding opening chorus onwards, this is a completely gripping picture of the Passion story. ... One shock to a purist early-music approach will be the use of the eloquent tenor Maximilian Schmitt as a thoroughly operatic Evangelist, but he matches well the dramatic approach of the whole. Soprano Dorothee Mields is unsurpassed in Zerfliesse, mein Herze, while Herreweghe’s choir Collegium Vocale Gent, replenished over the years, is ever fresh and precise. 
This is indeed one of the most thoughtful, affecting and powerful 
