JS Bach - St Matthew Passion
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 97010
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 9th February 2024
Contents
Artists
Rufus Muller (tenor)Richard Jackson (baritone)
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Lynda Lee (mezzo-soprano)
Jonathan Peter Kenny (counter-tenor)
Jamie MacDougall (tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Conductor
Paul GoodwinWorks
St Matthew Passion, BWV244Artists
Rufus Muller (tenor)Richard Jackson (baritone)
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Lynda Lee (mezzo-soprano)
Jonathan Peter Kenny (counter-tenor)
Jamie MacDougall (tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Conductor
Paul GoodwinAbout
Broadcast on Good Friday by the BBC, it became a fixture of the corporation’s Passiontide output for some years, and has continued to enjoy an afterlife online and on DVD, with its enduring values of sobriety, intimacy and simple expressiveness not only laying down the gauntlet for subsequent producers and directors but proving to outlast some of its more eccentric and ephemeral successors.
One primary reason for the durability of Miller’s production on film was its high musical values. Paul Goodwin had trained as an oboist but at this stage in his career he was beginning to take up a career in conducting that would lead him to direct the English Concert and many other frontline early-music ensembles as well as chamber and symphony orchestras.
On this occasion he conducted a freelance ensemble of vocal and instrumental colleagues with whom he enjoyed a long working relationship, and their thorough familiarity with the idiom and detail of the Passion shines through in the poise of the arias, the energy of the choruses and the text-centred expressiveness of the chorales.
The nature of Miller’s staging required it to be staged in the round, and this intimacy transfers readily to the audio recording of the film which is presented here with booklet notes by Goodwin tracing the special background to the recording.
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