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Notes
Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion is, along with the St Matthew Passion, without doubt one of the most important works he ever composed. It established a new tradition for Good Friday vespers in Leipzig, and with sublime skill Bach managed to retain a spirit of church worship while creating an almost operatic narrative that movingly depicts Christ’s trial, death, and ultimate apotheosis. Bach’s numerous revisions always demand a certain amount of scholarly decision-making, and this recording of the St John Passion uses the final 1749 version that not only draws on and reinforces the best of Bach’s original concept, but incorporates the additional movements of the 1725 version.
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""...This is a very good performance in which Ralf Otto moves the music along at a brisk pace ... The players in the orchestra are exceptional ... The soloists are skilful but overshadowed by the exceptional performance of Yorck Felix Speer as the most touching Jesus I have heard, and the outstanding tenor of Georg Poplutz as the Evangelist, whose range of flexibility is amazing: these two singers take this recording into another dimension. Very well worth buying." ****
Shirley Ratcliffe - Choir & Organ magazine - May/June 2018
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