Passion selon Saint Jean

Submitted by Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (LR-228514). Passion selon Saint Jean Jean-Sébastien Bach One of the peaks of the religious repertoire, the Passion selon Saint Jean is a monument of emotions. Distribution Rowan Pierce soprano Henriette Gödde alto Patrick Grahl tenor (The Evangelist) Tobias Berndt bass (Jesus) Markus Eiche bass (Pilate) Kammerorchester Basel Hans-Christoph Rademann direction Gaechinger Cantorey En few words The setting to music of the last days of Christ dates from the beginning of Christianity. The genre evolved little until the fourteenth century, before gaining two centuries later its nobility with the Lutheran reform, imposing the text sung in German to be understandable to all, and, under the influence of Italian opera, developing a richer polyphonic form. The Saint Jean was the first large-scale work written for Leipzig, the city where Bach had settled. This grandiose page strikes with the beauty of the soloist tunes as well as its choral parts. Production Théâtre des Champs-Élysées