The Other Person by Various, De (2022/2022), Director musical Facundo Agudín

“In addition to the Passions according to St. Matthew and according to St. John, Bach also composed a Passion according to St. Mark in 1731, created the same year, on a text by Picander. Unfortunately, only the booklet of this passion has reached us. The research and reconstruction work was extensive and, despite the heavy responsibility, I assumed the risk of proposing a new version. I sincerely hope that Bach would have been happy with my efforts. » Ton Koopman, June 1998 “Applied erudition and the transgression of institutional routines, which gave the historicist movement its aesthetic and social dynamic, are now the essential base on which contemporary experiments are based, such as that of the Musique des Lumières orchestra…