Being a bit disloyal to R3, we are relishing the Netherlands Bach Society's Matthew Passion which is available in full on YouTube. It's a live recording made about 5 years ago, I think. About half the choir is English! Good to hear Charles Daniels (tenor, but not the Evangelist) still in fine voice.
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Well that would balance up the R3 offering 2 St Johns -
Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
I posted this over on the Something for a Friday: All of Bach thread.
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If you're still in the mood for Bach Passions, here is a very fine performance conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt with the Tolzer Knaben und Gerhardt Schmidt-Gadens Tochterchor.My boxes are positively disintegrating under the sheer weight of ticks. Ed ReardonComment
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Thanks MC. I am a bit passioned out at the moment having just heard a little bit of Rattle/BPO's...out of interest rather than anything else. But I'm saving your St John for tomorrow.Comment
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You're welcome. The soloists are very good; Kurt Equiluz is the Evangelist and Robert Holl the bass. The two altos are also excellent.My boxes are positively disintegrating under the sheer weight of ticks. Ed ReardonComment
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Originally posted by ardcarp View Post This one was recommended in this week's mailing by Graham from the local music society. He says: 'None of the recordings are entirely satisfactory as they are of live performances in front of an audience but I have chosen this recording over John Eliot Gardiner, Nicholas Arnancourt, King’s College Cambridge, St Thomas’s Leipzig, Simon Rattle, Ton Koopman and Karl Richter. It has a lack of flashiness and fussiness and great depths of sincerity and tenderness; and the fact that the Dutch generally and the Netherlands Bach Society in particular are immersed in the work. Philippe Herreweghe runs it a close second but his (and Gardiner’s) is recorded in a concert hall. They use the Bärenreiter edition for anyone following with a vocal score'.
This Van Veldhoven recording is actually quite recent: 2 April 2019, and has amassed an impressive 442,792 views so far, with many appreciative comments. It's super
Lots of baroque fiddles and flutes making for a warm, mellow, well balanced orchestral sound. Definitely worth bookmarking.
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I couldn't agree more. Tempi just perfect, and recit cadences done sensibly, making the timing of the 'movements' work in a wonderfully fluid way.It [the Veldhoven] has a lack of flashiness and fussiness and great depths of sincerity and tenderness.Comment
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