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J S Bach - St Matthew Passion | Orchid Classics ORC100007

J S Bach - St Matthew Passion

£19.97

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Label: Orchid Classics

Cat No: ORC100007

Barcode: 5060189560073

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 26th October 2009

Contents

Artists

Ex Cathedra
Ex Cathedra Baroque Orchestra

Conductor

Jeffrey Skidmore

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

St Matthew Passion, BWV244

Artists

Ex Cathedra
Ex Cathedra Baroque Orchestra

Conductor

Jeffrey Skidmore

About

For their first release on Orchid Classics, Ex Cathedra present a brand new recording of the St. Matthew Passion, recorded live in Symphony Hall, Birmingham on Good Friday, 2009.

Sung in English using a totally new translation of the original German text, and performed with the Ex Cathedra Baroque Orchestra, this is a unique combination, fitting onto two very well filled discs with a 32 page booklet containing full texts.

From its home in Birmingham, Ex Cathedra has established an international reputation as a leading UK choir and Early Music ensemble. Under founder and Artistic Director Jeffrey Skidmore, Ex Cathedra is known for its vibrant performances and a passion for seeking out not only the best but the unfamiliar and the unexpected in the choral repertoire.

Jeffrey Skidmore knows this shattering music intimately, and he imparts his love of it so well to his performing forces. Here Ex Cathedra was joined by its Baroque Orchestra boasting an impressive array of names, and it was scintillating to relish here the variety of oboes responding to Bach’s detailed demands, the rasping double-basses, and a viola da gamba which delivered the usually purgatorial solos for this instrument without any penitential grittiness”. - Birmingham Post/Christopher Morley

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