JS Bach - St Matthew Passion | Challenge Classics CC72962

JS Bach - St Matthew Passion

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Label: Challenge Classics

Cat No: CC72962

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 7th April 2023

Contents

Artists

Gerlinde Samann (soprano)
Marie Kuijken (soprano)
Petra Noskaiova (mezzo-soprano)
Patrizia Hardt (contralto)
Christoph Genz (tenor)
Bernhard Hunziker (tenor)
Jan Van der Crabben (baritone)
Marcus Niedermayr (baritone)
La Petite Bande

Conductor

Sigiswald Kuijken

Works

Bach, Johann Sebastian

St Matthew Passion, BWV244

Artists

Gerlinde Samann (soprano)
Marie Kuijken (soprano)
Petra Noskaiova (mezzo-soprano)
Patrizia Hardt (contralto)
Christoph Genz (tenor)
Bernhard Hunziker (tenor)
Jan Van der Crabben (baritone)
Marcus Niedermayr (baritone)
La Petite Bande

Conductor

Sigiswald Kuijken

About

Magnificent and transparent, a recording of the famous masterpiece by JS Bach by La Petite Bande and Sigiswald Kuijken, played on period instruments.

The ensemble has a worldwide reputation of aiming for the most authentic sound possible. Again Kuijken and his group of musicians and vocalists have achieved this the most sublime way.

Sigiswald Kuijken knows the St Matthew Passion through and through. With La Petite Bande he gave performances of the work all over the world. Twenty years ago La Petite Bande (at that time with conductor Gustav Leonhardt and Kuijken as concertmaster) made their first recording of the Passion. It was a recording with soloists, a chamber choir and an orchestral composition which was adjusted to that. Since then Kuijken's vision on this masterpiece has changed very much. Ground-breaking musicological work of the last decades has brought him to a serious thin-out of his ensemble without the use of a conductor. There is not a real choir anymore, because the soloists perform also the choir parts. The boys choir that is usually used in most performances of this Passion is replaced here by a single soprano voice!

Additionally, by using authentic instruments and the original way of playing them, both in interpretation and sound quality, La Petite Bande strives to revive baroque music as faithfully as possible without lapsing into rigid academics.

Reissue of CC72821

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