Having enjoyed great success with the Christmas Oratorio and the B minor Mass, the Chamber Choir and ensemble Frauenkirche Dresden under the direction of Frauenkirche music director Matthias Grunert now continue their series of great works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Their St John Passion live from Dresden's Frauenkirche enthralled audience and critics alike at Passiontide 2017. Release on a double album not only makes this great work readily accessible at home, it transports you directly into an unforgettable evening of drama. Matthias Grunert, the Frauenkirche's Erster Kantor since the church's rededication, is the seasoned Bach expert who leads the Chamber Choir and ensemble Frauenkirche Dresden through the Passion. These experienced musical partners are complemented by a group of internationally renowned soloists: Camilla Nylund (soprano) and Andreas Scheibner (bass), both Kammersanger of the Land of Saxony, Nicole Pieper (alto), Falko Honisch (Vox Christi) - and at their head Tilman Lichdi (Evangelist), one of the great recitative tenors of our day. Bach's Passio secundum Johannem is the later of the two Passions of his that have come down to us complete. It portrays the dramatic turns of events and fateful inevitability of the last hours of Jesus, the Christ, "intensely, and altogether with genius, notably in the choruses," or so Robert Schumann concluded. The city's Frauenkirche provides the perfect backdrop to the intense drama of the Passion music, having a direct link to Bach: it was in this church, in the year 1736, that the great Thomaskantor played the newly dedicated organ in that sacred place where his "Passion according to John" was to be enacted almost three hundred years later.
10 Derselbige Jünger War Dem Hohenpriester Bekannt
11 Wer Hat Dich So Geschlagen
12 Und Hannas Sandte Ihn Gebunden
13 Ach, Mein Sinn, Wo Willt Du Endlich Hin
14 Petrus, Der Nichtdenkt Zurück
- Disc 2 -
1 Christus, Der Uns Selig Macht
2 Da Führeten Sie Jesum
3 Ach, Großer König, Groß Zu Allen Zeiten
4 Da Sprach Pilatus Zu Ihm
5 Betrachte Meine Seel
6 Erwäge, Wie Sein Blutgefärbter Rücken
7 Und Die Kriegsknechte Flochten Eine Krone
8 Durch Dein Gefängnis Gottes Sohn
9 Die Jüden Aber Schrieen Und Sprachen
10 Eilt, Ihr Angefochtnen Seelen
11 Allda Kreuzigten Sie Ihn
12 In Meine Herzens Grunde
13 Die Kriegsknechte Aber
14 Er Nahm Alles Wohl in Acht
15 Und Von Stund An Nahm Sie Der Jünger Zu Sich
16 Es Ist Vollbracht
17 Und Neiget Das Haupt Und Verschied
18 Mein Teurer Heiland, Laß Dich Fragen
19 Und Sie Da, Der Vorhang Im Tempel Zerriß
20 Mein Herz, in Dem Die Ganze Welt
21 Zerfließe, Mein Herze, in Fluten Der Zähren
22 Die Jüden Aber, Dieweil Es Der Rüsttag War
23 O Hilf, Christe, Gottes Sohn
24 Darnach Bat Pilatum Joseph Von Arimathia
25 Ruht Wohl, Ihr Heiligen Gebeine
26 Ach Herr, Laß Dein Lieb Engelein
Having enjoyed great success with the Christmas Oratorio and the B minor Mass, the Chamber Choir and ensemble Frauenkirche Dresden under the direction of Frauenkirche music director Matthias Grunert now continue their series of great works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Their St John Passion live from Dresden's Frauenkirche enthralled audience and critics alike at Passiontide 2017. Release on a double album not only makes this great work readily accessible at home, it transports you directly into an unforgettable evening of drama. Matthias Grunert, the Frauenkirche's Erster Kantor since the church's rededication, is the seasoned Bach expert who leads the Chamber Choir and ensemble Frauenkirche Dresden through the Passion. These experienced musical partners are complemented by a group of internationally renowned soloists: Camilla Nylund (soprano) and Andreas Scheibner (bass), both Kammersanger of the Land of Saxony, Nicole Pieper (alto), Falko Honisch (Vox Christi) - and at their head Tilman Lichdi (Evangelist), one of the great recitative tenors of our day. Bach's Passio secundum Johannem is the later of the two Passions of his that have come down to us complete. It portrays the dramatic turns of events and fateful inevitability of the last hours of Jesus, the Christ, "intensely, and altogether with genius, notably in the choruses," or so Robert Schumann concluded. The city's Frauenkirche provides the perfect backdrop to the intense drama of the Passion music, having a direct link to Bach: it was in this church, in the year 1736, that the great Thomaskantor played the newly dedicated organ in that sacred place where his "Passion according to John" was to be enacted almost three hundred years later.
