Repertoire
BACH: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Artists
Florian Sievers, tenor
Matthias Winckhler, baritone
Marta Mathéu, soprano
Nils Wanderer, countertenor
Juan Sancho, tenor
Marc Mauillon, baritone
Rachel Redmon, soprano
Kristin Mulders, mezzo-soprano
Emiliano González, tenor
Markus Volpert, baritone
VEUS – Cor Infantil Amics de la Unió
Josep Vila, Children’s choir conductor
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Lluís Vilamajó, choir preparation
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall, conductor
Manfredo Kraemer, concertino
Program
After having presented us his newly-reconstructed version of the St Mark Passion, this time Jordi Savall offers us a recreation of the St Matthew Passion.After having presented us his newly-reconstructed version of the St Mark Passion</em>, this time Jordi Savall offers us a recreation of the <em>St Matthew Passion</em> that dramatises the suffering and death of Christ according to the Gospel of St Matthew, based on the autograph score written in 1736 by Bach, where he included important amendments to the second version from 1729 (the original score of the first performance in 1727 was lost). Under Savall’s direction we will revisit it once again, thanks to the representation of the infinite musical dialogue between the voices and instruments of the two choirs and two orchestras, and with all the Ariosos of the sacramental words of Christ, who offers the chalice to his disciples (‘This is my blood’) as well as the cruel rhythm of the flagellation. We recall that the true ‘renaissance’ of early music began with the new presentation of this work, conducted by Felix Mendelssohn in Berlin, on 11 March 1829.
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