Saturday, March 14, 2020

Bach's St. Matthew Passion

The culmination of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach's sacred works came with his oratorio St. Matthew Passion, first performed in Leipzig in 1724. Almost every part of this work offers examples of Bach's ability to merge illustrative musical figures with colorful effects. This excerpt from the passage "Wahrlich, dieser ist Gottes Sohn gewesen" (Truly This Was the Son of God) is from one of the most beautiful choral segments in the oratorio.

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  1. Philippe Herreweghe 1985 (Harmonia Mundi, Ltd.) from the audio of the "St. Matthew Passion", with the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Also, the chorus 63b titled "Wahrlich, dieser ist Gottes Sohn gewesen" from the oratorio segments with Encarta 2005 downloaded and playing the same double orchestra combinations. This was from the 1994, Choir of King's College, Cambridge was used from the audio, it's sped-up than the normal effect with a piano.

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