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Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 by Otto Klemperer

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released March 4, 2023 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

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Mendelssohn & Bach: Matthäus-Passion

The Bach Choir Of Bethlehem

Classical - Released March 22, 2024 | Les Productions Analekta Inc.

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The modern revival of Bach's music began in 1829, when the revision of the St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, by the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn, had its premiere in Berlin. The performance, attended by VIPs from the Prussian king on down, was a tremendous success, a sellout that necessitated a repeat a week later. Mendelssohn cut about half the work, taking the ax especially to the arias and choruses but sparing most of the chorales and replacing archaic instruments with modern ones like clarinets. In 1841, he returned to his handiwork, restoring some of the cuts and suggesting a two-cello continuo for the organ part that was left unfinished. It is this version that is recorded here for the first time in a new edition published by Bärenreiter in Germany in 2023. The Bach Choir of Bethlehem and director Christopher Jackson retain the fortepiano accompaniment in the recitatives from the earlier version. The 1841 version has been recorded before, notably by the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra under Philippe Herreweghe, but this reading by a choir well-established enough to have its own distinctive sound (it was founded in 1898) is well worth hearing. Taken from several live performances at a church in the church's hometown of Bethlehem (Pennsylvania), the recording has a rich sound, with a desirably large choir of 80, all volunteers; Jackson forges excellent balances among the large forces, including the professional Bach Festival Orchestra. The soloists, especially soprano Clara Rottsolk and baritone William Sharp as a very grave Jesus, are standouts, with fine voices and strong engagement with the text. Those wishing to check out the rather rare 1841 version of what really should be called Bach-Mendelssohn in the graphics rather than Mendelssohn-Bach will welcome this fine reading.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Echo: Schubert, Loewe, Schumann & Wolf

Georg Nigl

Classical - Released May 5, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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Lieder (Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms)

Matthias Goerne

Classical - Released June 10, 2022 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Matthias Goerne not only performs at the highest level as a baritone himself, but his piano accompaniments also rank among the Champions League of classical music. For his first album, which was dedicated to Beethoven songs, he brought Jan Lisiecki on board. This was followed by the album Abendrot with melodies by Wagner and Strauss, among others, together with the young talent Seong-Jin Cho. Now we may experience the baritone in duo with the world-class Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, presenting us with a metaphysical program of Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich and Brahms.The combination of music and poetry was brought to a climax in the form of the Romantic art song by Franz Schubert. The composers presented here build on this tradition, and despite the wide, temporal span of their publications - there are 135 years between Schumann's Dichterliebe and Shostakovich's Michelangelo Suite - the closeness and significance to the text and its authors is equally evident in all of them. Schumann's Dichterliebe is probably one of the best examples of this: the setting of Heinrich Heine's texts brings together two masters of Romanticism who could not be better interpreted by Goerne and Trifonov. Themes of impossible love and human suffering are unfolded through extremes in the monologue as well as the music, with Goerne maintaining this "strong sensitivity" throughout. In the same vein, the unspoken finds its place on the piano and takes on much more than just an accompanying role in his interpretation - as well as in art song in general. Trifonov is in direct musical dialogue with Goerne, the two artists communicating at eye level.A similar symbiosis is evident in the Michelangelo musical settings by Wolf and Shostakovich. By abandoning tonality in the latter, the connection between piano and spoken word is again reinforced on another level. A unique duo project by two contemporary greats whose paths will hopefully cross more often. © Lena Germann/Qobuz
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J.S. Bach : Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (Passion selon saint Matthieu)

Philippe Herreweghe

Classical - Released July 31, 2007 | harmonia mundi

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J.S. Bach : St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

John Eliot Gardiner

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released March 3, 2017 | SDG

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Recorded live at Pisa Cathedral in 2016, this recording of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, is of a piece with the touring Bach Cantata Pilgrimage recordings released in the early 2000s: it is rich yet lively, sung with precision yet a total sense of commitment in the moment. The singers -- the Monteverdi Choir of 30 with soloists all drawn from the choir, except for Jesus (Stephan Loges) and the Evangelist (James Gilchrist) -- performed from memory, and the feeling that the text is being communicated directly is even greater than is usual with Gardiner. An unusual feature of the recording is that the soloists are not single per part; the soprano solos are taken by no fewer than five different singers. Several (try Hannah Morrison in "Aus liebe") are lovely, and the effect of a space between the congregational chorales and the focus on an individual soloist is fascinating. The hair-trigger alertness of the chorus in the big numbers like "Sind Blitze, sind Donner in Wolken verschwunden?" is also extremely compelling. Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir offer Bach with the luxury of old-fashioned Romantic versions combined with the agility of historical performance, and they've never done the combination better than they do here. © TiVo
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J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

Bach Collegium Japan

Classical - Released February 7, 2020 | BIS

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“A great joy”: this is how Masaaki Suzuki considers this, his second recording of the St. Matthew’s Passion, made twenty years after the first one, in the Saitama Arts Theatre in Japan in April 2019 for the BIS label. A great opportunity to revisit the work, as in the elapsed time, the conductor and his orchestra have nearly completely recorded Bach’s choral music, including the complete masses and secular and sacred cantatas. As is his custom, Suzuki works with European soloists for this new recording, like the splendid young German tenor Benjamin Bruns, playing the stupendous part of the Evangelist. There are other familiar soloists that feature here, such as Carolyn Sampson, Damien Guillon, Makoto Sakurada and Christian Immler. There is nothing monumental about this new intimate and refined version, which follows the fateful narrative with great sobriety. There is nevertheless a fervent level of impulse, as well as a certain innocence within this resolutely pared back Lutheran perspective - there is never any real search for theatricality. The exceptional instrumental quality of the soloists of the Bach Collegium Japan and the soft touches of the two choral ensembles is also worth highlighting. © François Hudry / Qobuz
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Paradise Lost

Anna Prohaska

Classical - Released April 10, 2020 | Alpha Classics

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The gestation of this project lasted two years. Anna Prohaska and Julius Drake finally concentrated their research on the themes of Eve, Paradise and banishment. Some songs were obvious choices, such as Fauré’s Paradis, in which God appears to Eve and asks her to name each flower and animal, or Purcell’s Sleep, Adam, sleep with its references to Genesis. But Anna Prohaska also wished to illustrate the cliché of the woman who brought original sin into the world and her status as a tempter who leads man astray, as in Brahms’s Salamander, Wolf’s Die Bekehrte or Ravel’s Air du Feu. In Das Paradies und die Peri, Schumann conjures up the image of Syria’s rose-covered plains. Bernstein also transports us to the desert with Silhouette.. John Milton’s seventeenth-century masterpiece Paradise Lost was the inspiration for Charles Ives and Benjamin Britten, also featured in this very rich programme that constitutes an invitation to travel and reflection. © Alpha Classics
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Braunfels: Die Vögel

Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra

Classical - Released August 5, 1996 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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J.S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion BWV 244

Gustav Leonhardt

Sacred Vocal Music - Released January 2, 1990 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

Gaechinger Cantorey

Classical - Released March 5, 2021 | Accentus Music

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"The St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the greatest works in the history of music. Whenever I study this epochal composition, I always ask myself the question: How can a work of music, which is performed each year in thousands of performances, has been scientifically and artistically interpreted for decades, and worshiped for centuries, remain a new, contemporary, and at the same time universal and supreme idea? It can be achieved if that which is defined as established and comprehensive, and appears or is accepted as unshakeable, is set in motion without capping the connections to the work itself and its musical- historical, intellectual and theological foundations", says Hans-Christoph Rademann about one of the monumental sacred works of music history. In November 2020, Rademann and the Gächinger Cantorey ensemble and chorus, together with an extraordinary group of soloists, set out to lend a new and fresh perspective to Bach's timeless masterpiece of raging choirs, intimate chorales, and emotionally charged arias, which, with its drama and pictorial quality, allows the listener to experience the well-known Passion story again and again as something completely new and unheard-of. © Accentus Music
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J.S. Bach: Matthäus Passion

Rufus Müller

Classical - Released December 29, 2023 | Brilliant Classics

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Wolf: Goethe-Lieder

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Classical - Released October 4, 2019 | Warner Classics

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SCHUBERT, F.: Goethe-Lieder (Auger, Olbertz)

Arleen Auger

Classical - Released October 25, 1994 | Berlin Classics

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Wolf: Kennst du das Land

Sophie Karthäuser

Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Released April 29, 2016 | harmonia mundi

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 / Wolf: Four Goethe Songs

Riccardo Chailly

Classical - Released April 30, 1999 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Franz Schubert: Goethe Lieder

Elisabeth Söderström

Lieder (German) - Released January 1, 1991 | naïve classique

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Wolf: The Complete Songs, Vol. 10 – Goethe Lieder, Pt. 1

Neal Davies

Classical - Released January 3, 2020 | Stone Records

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