Immerse yourself in the profound and timeless masterpiece of Johann Sebastian Bach with the release of "J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244." This live recording, released on March 3, 2023, by the esteemed label Archipel, offers a captivating journey through one of the most significant works in classical music history. Spanning over two hours, this album is a testament to Bach's unparalleled compositional genius and his deep spiritual insight.
The "St. Matthew Passion" is a profound oratorio that narrates the Passion of Christ, as recounted in the Gospel of Matthew. This live performance brings together a rich tapestry of chorales, arias, recitatives, and choruses, each piece meticulously crafted to evoke a range of emotions and reflections. The album features a stellar ensemble of vocalists and instrumentalists, delivering a performance that is both powerful and deeply moving.
From the opening chorus "Come, ye daughters, help me lament" to the final recitative, the album unfolds like a dramatic narrative, drawing the audience into the sacred story. The chorales, such as "Beloved Jesus, what has thou done wrong" and "It Is I. I should atone," serve as moments of contemplation and devotion, while the arias, like "Guilt and pain" and "I will give my heart to thee," showcase the emotional depth and technical brilliance of the soloists.
The "St. Matthew Passion" is not just a musical experience; it is a spiritual and historical journey that transcends time. Bach's ability to blend sacred text with sublime music creates a work that is both intellectually stimulating and emotionally resonant. This live recording captures the essence of that experience, offering a glimpse into the profound impact of Bach's music on both performers and audience alike.
Whether you are a seasoned classical music enthusiast or a newcomer to the genre, "J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244" is an essential addition to your collection. It is a work that invites repeated listening, revealing new layers of meaning and beauty with each encounter. Experience the timeless artistry of Johann Sebastian Bach and let the "St. Matthew Passion" inspire and uplift your spirit.
Tracks
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 1, Chorus. Come, ye daughters, help me lament - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pau Casals
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 2, Recitative. When Jesus then had finished all these sayings - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, William Warfield
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 3, Chorale. Beloved Jesus, what has thou done wrong - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pau Casals
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 4, Recitative. There assembled themselves the high priests and the scribes - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, William Warfield
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 5, Chorus. Not upon the feast, lest from It there be an uproar - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pau Casals
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 6, Recitative. When now Jesus visited Bethany and was in the house - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, William Warfield
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 7, Chorus. What end serveth all This nonsense? - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pau Casals
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 8, Recitative. But when Jesus noticed This - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, William Warfield
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 9, Recitative. Beloved Savior thou - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Maureen Forrester
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 10, Aria. Guilt and pain - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Maureen Forrester
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 11, Recitative. Then there went one of the twelve - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, Ara Berberian
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 12, Aria. Bleed on, dear heart - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Olga Iglesias
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 13, Recitative. But on the first day of Unleavened Bread - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 14, Chorus. Where wilt thou That we prepare the Paschal Lamb - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pau Casals, Paobl Casals
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 15, Recitative. He said: - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, William Warfield, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 16, Chorale. It Is I. I should atone - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pau Casals
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 17, Recitative. He answered to them and said: - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, William Warfield, Ara Berberian
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 18, Recitative. Although my heart swims in tears - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Olga Iglesias
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 19, Aria. I will give my heart to thee - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Olga Iglesias
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 20, Recitative. But after the song of praise had been recited - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, William Warfield
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 21, Chorale. Know me, my keeper - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pau Casals
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 22, Recitative. Peter, however, then answerèd and said to him - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, Ara Berberian, William Warfield
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 23, Chorale. I would stand here beside thee - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pau Casals
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 24, Recitative. Then came Jesus with them to a garden, by name Gethsemane - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, William Warfield
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 25, Recitative. O pain! - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 26, Aria. I will watch beside my Jesus. - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 27, Recitative. He went on a little, fell down upon his face - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, William Warfield
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 28, Recitative. The Savior falls down before his father - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ara Berberian
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 29, Aria. I will gladly submit myself - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ara Berberian
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 30, Recitative. And he came to his disciples and found them sleeping - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, William Warfield
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 31, Chorale. What my God wills, may It ever befall. - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pau Casals
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 32, Recitative. And he came and found them once more sleeping - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, William Warfield, Ara Berberian
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 33, Duet and Chorus. So Is my Jesus captured now - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Olga Iglesias, Maureen Forrester, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 34, Recitative. Behold them! - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, William Warfield, Ara Berberian
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 35, Choral. O man, bewail your great sin - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 36, Aria and Chorus. Ah! My Jesus has gone now - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Maureen Forrester, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 37, Recitative. But those, however, who had seized Jesus - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 38, Chorale. The world has judged me deceitfully - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pau Casals
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 39, Recitative. And although there came there many false witnesses - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Ara Berberian
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 40, Recitative. My Jesus holds his peace - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 41, Aria. Forbear, Though deceiving tongues may sting me! - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 42, Recitative. And the high priest then, answering, spake thus to him: - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, Ara Berberian, William Warfield, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 43, Recitative. Then did they spit upon his countenance and struck him with their - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 44, Chorale. Who has buffeted thee so - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pau Casals
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 45, Recitative. Peter, meanwhile, sat outside in the court; and there came to him - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, Olga Iglesias, Ara Berberian
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 46, Chorus and Recitative. Surely thou also art one of them, for thy speech doth betray thee - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Ernst Haefliger, Ara Berberian
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 47, Aria. Have mercy - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Maureen Forrester
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 48, Chorale. Although I have strayed from thee - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Pau Casals
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 49, Recitative. Now when the morning came - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, Ara Berberian, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 50, Recitative. And he cast the silvers pieces in the temple - LiveJohann Sebastian Bach, The Festival Casals Orchestra, Pau Casals, Ernst Haefliger, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
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