Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor
Period-music ensembles the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir—the gold standard in Baroque performance for decades—join forces with conductor Masaaki Suzuki for Bach’s crowning masterpiece during its 300th anniversary year. The powerfully dramatic St. Matthew Passion sets the 26th and 27th chapters of the Bible’s Gospel of Matthew to music with interspersed chorales and arias, and is scored for massive forces: a double choir, double orchestra, and vocal soloists. Bach’s transcendent oratorio conveys the story’s intense human drama and moral dilemma, as recounted here by featured soloists Nick Pritchard as the Evangelist and Florian Störtz as Jesus.
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Program Items
Bach
St. Matthew Passion
Performers
Nick Pritchard
tenor (Evangelist)
Florian Störtz
bass (Jesus)
Carolyn Sampson and Jone Martínez
soprano
Alexander Chance and Matthias Dähling
alto
Hugo Hymas
tenor
Timothy Edlin
bass