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On 11 March 1829 the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn conducted a performance of the St Matthew Passion, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, in the concert hall of the Singakademie in Berlin, almost 100 years after the work had last been played. Some 900 people were in attendance, and the performance was so successful that it was repeated twice, on 21 March and on Good Friday, 17 April 1829.
Mendelssohn was given the score of the St Matthew Passion for his 15th birthday, 3 February 1824. He knew of the score as one of Zelter's pupils and as a member of the Singakademie, which had a few chorus parts from the St Matthew in its repertoire. Zelter, the conductor of the Singakademie, found the work too difficult to be performed in public. Mendelssohn, however, had a different opinion. In 1828 he set to work on the score, making changes in line with the day and age and the instruments then commonly used. Mendelssohn meant many of his changes to provide a better understanding of what, in his opinion, formed the heart of the passion story.
After its successes in Berlin, the St Matthew Passion was performed in a number of German cities. In 1841 Mendelssohn gave a performance in Leipzig, where he was then Kapellmeister, in the Thomaskirche, the church where the work had first been performed. For its performance in 1841, Mendelssohn again made alterations to the score, but fewer than in 1828/1829.
It is this version from 1841 that you will hear in this recording. Mendelssohn was faced with a number of problems that made it quite difficult to perform the St Matthew Passion. For example, several instruments were no longer in general use: the oboe da caccia, the oboe d'amore, the gamba and the lute. © Challenge Records
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Matthäuspassion, BWV 244 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer, Author - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Consensus Vocalis, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Consensus Vocalis, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Consensus Vocalis, MainArtist - Judith van Wanroijwa, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Consensus Vocalis, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Consensus Vocalis, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist - Consensus Vocalis, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Consensus Vocalis, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Consensus Vocalis, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Helena Rasker, MainArtist - Consensus Vocalis, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Consensus Vocalis, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Maarten Koningsberger, MainArtist - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Consensus Vocalis, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Helena Rasker, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Consensus Vocalis, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Judith van Wanroij, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Consensus Vocalis, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Jörg Dürmüller, MainArtist
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Maarten Koningsberger, MainArtist - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Maarten Koningsberger, MainArtist - Jan Willem de Vriend, Conductor - The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra
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Albumbeschreibung
On 11 March 1829 the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn conducted a performance of the St Matthew Passion, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach, in the concert hall of the Singakademie in Berlin, almost 100 years after the work had last been played. Some 900 people were in attendance, and the performance was so successful that it was repeated twice, on 21 March and on Good Friday, 17 April 1829.
Mendelssohn was given the score of the St Matthew Passion for his 15th birthday, 3 February 1824. He knew of the score as one of Zelter's pupils and as a member of the Singakademie, which had a few chorus parts from the St Matthew in its repertoire. Zelter, the conductor of the Singakademie, found the work too difficult to be performed in public. Mendelssohn, however, had a different opinion. In 1828 he set to work on the score, making changes in line with the day and age and the instruments then commonly used. Mendelssohn meant many of his changes to provide a better understanding of what, in his opinion, formed the heart of the passion story.
After its successes in Berlin, the St Matthew Passion was performed in a number of German cities. In 1841 Mendelssohn gave a performance in Leipzig, where he was then Kapellmeister, in the Thomaskirche, the church where the work had first been performed. For its performance in 1841, Mendelssohn again made alterations to the score, but fewer than in 1828/1829.
It is this version from 1841 that you will hear in this recording. Mendelssohn was faced with a number of problems that made it quite difficult to perform the St Matthew Passion. For example, several instruments were no longer in general use: the oboe da caccia, the oboe d'amore, the gamba and the lute. © Challenge Records
Details of original recording : Live recording in April 2014, Musiekcentrum Enschede, The Netherlands
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 53 track(s)
- Total length: 01:51:11
- Main artists: Consensus Vocalis The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
- Label: Challenge Classics
- Area: Allemagne
- Genre: Klassiek
- Period: Baroque Music
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