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Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach

Artist(s):
New College Oxford Choir
James Bowman

Conductor:
Edward Higginbottom

Background: St John Passion shows Bach’s towering imagination at its most intensely dramatic. Christ’s trial and death are retold by soloists acting as participants in the event but also meditating upon it in reflective arias; the choir’s role alters from rowdy mob baying for crucifixion to that of a congregation singing quiet, redemptive chorales.

Criticised in its day for being too operatic, the work is now revered for its originality, for its faith and above all for its incomparable beauty of musical thought. This new reading is a testament to the vitality of the choral tradition: all soloists are former or current members of New College Choir. It also presents a new level of authenticity, not only with period instruments but also with boys’ voices as Bach would have used at St Thomas’s in Leipzig.

CATALOGUE NR: 855729697
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 8.50 including VAT, or £ 7.23 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 07-Apr-2003

COMPOSER: Johann Sebastian Bach
TITLE: St John Passion
CONDUCTOR: Edward Higginbottom
ARTISTS: New College Oxford Choir   James Bowman   James Gilchrist   Joe Littlewood

- Jun-2003 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Jun-2003 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A natural and unforced reading within a 'living' musico-liturgical context' - Penguin Guide 3 star 'the Naxos CD version of the St John Passion, with the choir of New College, Oxford, offers an outstanding period performance which can stand comparison with any in the catalogue'

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