Cd matthaus passion ton koopman biography
Cd matthaus passion ton koopman biography
J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion/Koopman - Classics Today!
Bach: Matthaus Passion - Ton Koopman: The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
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ArtsDocumentary with no narration published by Challenge Classics in 2006 - German language
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A powerful setting of Jesus's final days, the St Matthew Passion was responsible for the resurgence of interest in JS Bach's sacred choral music after the composer's death.
Bach's Matthaus Passion is an intense journey into suffering, guilt and faith. It reflects on the core mystery of the Christian faith with passion yet, as it were, in slow motion, stressing inner emotions rather than action.
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The solo arias are personal reckonings, and the listener cannot help confronting his or her own human weaknesses. The chorus comments on the Good Friday events as in a Greek tragedy. When in 1723 Johann Sebastian Bach entered upon the office of Thomascantor in the city of Leipzig, he continued one of the most recent and most important inno