J.S.Bach - Matthaus-Passion (1841)

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(...) Christoph Spering has made a very good attempt on this shortened masterpiece, and has not only taken Mendelssohn's reworking, but has also used contemporaneous numbers of players and singers. He has also used instruments similar to those used at the first version in 1829, and its final re-working in 1841. It was this work which started the renaissance in the appreciation of the choral works of J. S. Bach, the 1829 performance being the first since the death of the composer in 1750. To the specialist collector therefore, this issue is of major importance as it gives the opportunity to hear the recreation of a work which was instrumental in us re-discovering Bach's major choral works.(...)

John Phillips

Tenor [Evangelist]: Wilfried Jochens
Bass [Christus]: Peter Lika
Soprano: Angela Kazimierczuk
Alto: Alison Browner
Tenor: Markus Schäfer
Bass: Franz-Josef Selig
[Ancilla 1]: Susanne Merle
[Ancilla 2]: Paola Gronau
[Testis 1]: Andrea Mutert
Tenor [Testis 2]: Florian Simson


Chorus Musicus Köln
Das Neue Orchester
dir. Christoph Spering

Original post 12/05/09