J. S. Bach: St Matthew Passion BWV 244

KING’S COLLEGE CHAPEL
A Guide to Bach’s St Matthew Passion
James Gilchrist presents a half-hour musical tour of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, recorded in April 2020 … Musical examples are taken from performances at King’s College, Cambridge, April 2019, recorded live for King’s College Recordings.

Johannes-Passion BWV 245 (St John Passion) English Baroque Soloists & Monteverdi Choir Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Mark Padmore, tenor, Evangelist; Peter Harvey, bass, Christus; Katherine Fuge, soprano; Robin Blaze, counter-tenor; Nicholas Mulroy, tenor; Jeremy Budd, tenor; Matthew Brook bass

Van Veldhoven | Netherlands Bach Society.
The St Matthew Passion performed by the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach. Whether or not they are an enthusiast of classical music, practically everyone in the Netherlands knows the St Matthew Passion. Since 1870 the Netherlands has had a rich tradition of annual St Matthew Passion performances. The Netherlands Bach Society was formed in 1921, in reaction to the popular performances by Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra. The founders believed that the St Matthew should be performed where it belonged – in a church. The annual performance by the Bach Society in Naarden grew to become ‘the’ Dutch St Matthew Passion…

St Matthew Passion performed live in concert by
Tölzer Knabenchor & Hofkapelle München
conducted by Christian Fliegner.
Soloists: Elias Mädler, Pascal Pfeiffer, Lionel Wunsch, Daniel Henze, Laurenz Ströbl Benjamin Glaubitz, Evangelist Julian Habermann, Tenor Georg Gädker, Christus Samuel Hasselhorn, Bass