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Matthäus Passion, BWV 244 -  (St. Matthew Passion)

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J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion - BWV 244
No. 12 Recitative (soprano): “Wiewohl mein Herz in Tranen Schwimmt”

Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Soprano: Hannah Morrison

The next part of our St. Matthew Passion tour will begin on August 5th, visiting San Sebastian, Santander and The Edinburgh International Festival. The final performances will be in Wroclaw and Pisa in September.

Find out more at: http://www.monteverdi.co.uk/concerts/...

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Recording: Radio Klara
Photography: Sim Canetty-Clarke, Antoni Bofill, Ronald Knapp, Sander Buyck 

The three Monteverdi ensembles – the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique – are a leading force on the international music scene. World-class musicians and singers from many nationalities come together to share in the distinctive vision of our Artistic Director, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, in ground-breaking projects that span eight centuries of musical masterpieces.

‘They represent British excellence on their tours abroad, and it is a great privilege to be Parton of such wonderful ambassadors for our country.’

HRH The Prince of Wales, Royal Patron, Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras. 

The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras receive no government subsidy and rely 100% on the generosity of Individual, Corporate and Trust & Foundation donors to survive. Your support enables us to continue to provide unique opportunities to hear the work of Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his ensembles. If you would like to donate towards the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras, visit the support section of our website: https://www.monteverdi.co.uk/support

J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion - No. 12 Recitative

The St Matthew Passion tour began in Spain - almost 290 years after the work was first performed - and travelled across Europe visiting France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. As part of the tour, the Monteverdi ensembles returned to Leipzig in June 2016 to perform this magnificent work at the Bach-Archiv in Thomaskirche - Bach’s own church, where the St Matthew Passion was first performed on 11 March 1725.

In an unprecedented tour de force: the Monteverdi Choir performed the work entirely from memory. For a choir that has scaled great artistic heights and even won the title of ‘best in the world’, this abandoning of the safety blanket of the written page may have seemed mere bravado; in fact it stemmed from the desire to seek a level of communication with the audience that would have been unachievable from behind the barrier of the score.

The St Matthew Passion is often described as Bach’s crowning masterpiece: a score which he painstakingly reworked and revised, leaving the impression that he was aspiring to some sort of ideal. Even today in a mostly secular society, this masterpiece of the Lutheran church tradition can have an overwhelming effect on audiences, being essentially a human drama of immense struggle, betrayal and forgiveness, love and sacrifice, compassion and pity.

A live recording was captured at Pisa Cathedral during the Anima Mundi Festival in September 2016 and released on our SDG label. The recording received critical acclaim and was subsequently nominated for the 2017 Gramophone Awards in the Baroque Vocal category. For more information about the recording please click here.

English

St. Matthew Passion by Bach, J. S., Ó (2016/2016), Seoltóir John Eliot Gardiner

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