Bach’s St Matthew Passion
Erbarme dich is rightly invariably in the top 3 of classical all-time greats lists, though they would be righter still to list Bach’s entire St Matthew Passion. Never has the Passion story been more movingly told. Baroque specialist Richard Egarr and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra bring this gripping account of betrayal and death on the cross, whose emotional intensity comes from the blurring of the lines between the earthly and the divine.
Programme
Bach St Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Performers
Richard Egarr
conductor
Andrew Tortise
tenor
Choeur de Chambre de Namur
choir
Christian Senn
bass-baritone
Elizabeth Watts
soprano
Kinderkoor Opera Ballet Vlaanderen Opera Ballet Flanders Youth Choir
children's choir
Krešimir Stražanac
bass
Nicholas Mulroy
tenor (evangelist)
Rosanne van Sandwijk
mezzo soprano
