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The St. Matthew Passion (also, Matthæus Passion), BWV
BWV

The Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis is the numbering system identifying compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. The prefix BWV, followed by the work's number now is the shorthand identification for Bach's compositions....
 244, is a musical composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
 for solo voices, double choir
Choir

A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral Music, in turn, is the music written specifically for a choir to perform....
 and double orchestra
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
, with libretto
Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, Musical theater, and ballet....
 by Picander
Picander

Picander was the pseudonym of Christian Friedrich Henrici , a Germany poet and libretto for many of Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig cantatas....
 (Christian Friedrich Henrici). It sets chapters 26 and 27 of the Gospel of Matthew
Gospel of Matthew

The Gospel of Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels in the New Testament and is a synoptic gospel. It narrates an account of the New Testament view on Jesus' life and Ministry of Jesus of Jesus of Nazareth....
 to music, with interspersed chorale
Chorale

A chorale was originally a hymn of the Lutheran church sung by the entire congregation. In casual modern usage, the term also includes classical settings of such hymns and works of a similar character....
s and aria
Aria

An aria in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment....
s.

's St. Matthew Passion was written in 1727. Only two of the four (or five) settings of the Passion
Passion (Christianity)

The Passion is the Christian theological term used for the events and suffering ? physical, spiritual, and mental ? of Jesus in the hours before and including his trial and execution by crucifixion....
 which Bach wrote have survived; the other is the St.






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The St. Matthew Passion (also, Matthæus Passion), BWV
BWV

The Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis is the numbering system identifying compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. The prefix BWV, followed by the work's number now is the shorthand identification for Bach's compositions....
 244, is a musical composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organ whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque music period and brought it to its ultimate maturity....
 for solo voices, double choir
Choir

A choir, chorale, or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral Music, in turn, is the music written specifically for a choir to perform....
 and double orchestra
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
, with libretto
Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, Musical theater, and ballet....
 by Picander
Picander

Picander was the pseudonym of Christian Friedrich Henrici , a Germany poet and libretto for many of Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig cantatas....
 (Christian Friedrich Henrici). It sets chapters 26 and 27 of the Gospel of Matthew
Gospel of Matthew

The Gospel of Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels in the New Testament and is a synoptic gospel. It narrates an account of the New Testament view on Jesus' life and Ministry of Jesus of Jesus of Nazareth....
 to music, with interspersed chorale
Chorale

A chorale was originally a hymn of the Lutheran church sung by the entire congregation. In casual modern usage, the term also includes classical settings of such hymns and works of a similar character....
s and aria
Aria

An aria in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment....
s.

History

Bach's St. Matthew Passion was written in 1727. Only two of the four (or five) settings of the Passion
Passion (Christianity)

The Passion is the Christian theological term used for the events and suffering ? physical, spiritual, and mental ? of Jesus in the hours before and including his trial and execution by crucifixion....
 which Bach wrote have survived; the other is the St. John Passion. The St. Matthew Passion was probably first performed on Good Friday
Good Friday

Good Friday, also called Holy Friday, Great Friday or Black Friday, is the Friday preceding Easter Sunday . It commemorates the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Golgotha....
 (11 April) 1727 in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig
Leipzig

Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
, where Bach was the Kapellmeister
Kapellmeister

Kapellmeister is a German language word designating a person in charge of music-making. The word is a compound word, consisting of the roots Kapelle and Meister ....
. He revised it by 1736, performing it again on March 30, 1736, this time including two organ
Organ (music)

The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard played either Manual or Pedal clavier. The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the European classical music....
s in the instrumentation.

The St. Matthew Passion was not heard outside of Leipzig until 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
 performed an abbreviated and modified version of it in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 to great acclaim. Mendelssohn's revival of the St. Matthew Passion brought the music of Bach, particularly the large-scale works, to a public and scholarly attention that has persisted into the present era. Sims Reeves claimed that he had sung the tenor music in the first complete performance of the work in England, at St James's Hall
St James's Hall

St. James's Hall was a concert hall in London that opened on 25 March 1858, designed by architect and artist Owen Jones , who had decorated the interior of the Crystal Palace....
 under William Sterndale Bennett
William Sterndale Bennett

Sir William Sterndale Bennett was an English people composer and pianist.Bennett was born at Sheffield, the son of Robert Bennett, an organ ....
, in around 1854 with Helen Lemmens-Sherrington
Helen Lemmens-Sherrington

Helen Lemmens-Sherrington was the leading English people concert and operatic soprano of the 1860s....
, Charlotte Sainton-Dolby
Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby

Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby , was an England contralto singer.She was born in London, studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1832 to 1837, Crivelli being her principal singing-master....
 and Willoughby Weiss
Willoughby Weiss

Willoughby Hunter Weiss was an English oratorio and opera singer and composer. He became one of the most celebrated bass singers of the 19th century, and sang in the premieres of many English works....
. Reeves modified some of the difficult intervals for the tenor part.

Structure

Many composers wrote musical settings
Passion music

Passion music are musical compositions reflecting the suffering of Jesus leading up to the Crucifixion....
 of the Passion in the late 17th century. Like other Baroque oratorio
Oratorio

An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and solo ists. The oratorio was somewhat modeled after the opera. Their similarities include the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable Fictional character, and arias....
 passions, Bach's setting presents the Biblical text of Matthew 26-27 in a relatively simple way, primarily using recitative
Recitative

Recitative is a style of delivery in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech. The mostly syllabic recitativo secco is at one end of a spectrum through recitativo accompagnato , the more melismatic arioso, and finally the full blown aria or ensemble, where the pulse is entirely governed by the mus...
, while aria
Aria

An aria in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment....
 and arioso
Arioso

In European classical music, arioso is a style of Solo opera singing between recitative and aria. Literally, arioso means airy. The term arose in the 16th century along with the aforementioned styles and monody....
 movements set newly-written poetic texts which comment on the various events in the Biblical narrative and present the characters' states of mind in a lyrical, monologue-like manner.

Two distinctive aspects of Bach's setting spring from his other church endeavors. One is the double-choir format, which stems from his own double-choir motet
Motet

In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choir musical compositions.The name comes either from the Latin movere, or a Latinized version of Old French mot, "word" or "verbal utterance." The Medieval Latin for "motet" is "motectum", and the Italian mottetto was also used....
s and the many such motets from other composers with which he routinely started Sunday services. The other is the extensive use of chorale
Chorale

A chorale was originally a hymn of the Lutheran church sung by the entire congregation. In casual modern usage, the term also includes classical settings of such hymns and works of a similar character....
s, which appear in standard four-part settings, as interpolations in arias, and as a cantus firmus
Cantus firmus

In music, a cantus firmus is a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphony composition .The plural of this Latin term is , though one occasionally sees the corrupt form canti firmi....
 in large polyphonic movements, notably “O Mensch, bewein dein’ Sünde groß,” the conclusion of the first half—a movement this work has in common with his St John Passion—and the opening coro, Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir Klagen, in which the soprano in ripieno crowns a colossal buildup of polyphonic and harmonic
Harmony

In Western music, harmony is the use of different pitches simultaneously, and chord s, actual or implied, in music. The word is related to the word "harmonic" which implies related wavelengths of waves....
 tension, singing a verse of the chorale O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig.

The surviving manuscript
Manuscript

A manuscript is any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a wa...
s consist of eight concertato scores, used for eight soloists who also served in the two choirs, a few extra "bit parts", and a part for the soprano in ripieno.

The narration of the Gospel texts are sung by the tenor
Tenor

The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
 Evangelist in secco recitative
Recitative

Recitative is a style of delivery in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech. The mostly syllabic recitativo secco is at one end of a spectrum through recitativo accompagnato , the more melismatic arioso, and finally the full blown aria or ensemble, where the pulse is entirely governed by the mus...
 accompanied only by continuo. Soloists sing the words of various characters, also in recitative; in addition to Jesus
Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
, there are named parts for Judas
Judas Iscariot

'Judas Iscariot', "Yehuda" was, according to the New Testament, one of the twelve original Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Among the twelve, he was apparently designated to keep account of the "accountant" , but he is most traditionally known for his role in Jesus' betrayal into the hands of Roman authorities....
, Peter
Saint Peter

Saint Peter was a leader of the early Christianity church, who features prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles....
, two high priests, Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate

Pontius Pilate was the Roman_governor#Equestrian_procurator of the Roman Empire Iudaea Province from the year AD 26 until AD 36. He is typically known as the sixth Procurator of Judea, but some sources cite him as the fifth....
, Pilate's wife, two witnesses and two ancillae (maids), although these are not always sung by all different soloists. These "character" soloists are also often assigned arias and sing with the choirs, a practice not always followed by modern performances. Two duets are sung by a pair of soloists representing two simultaneous speakers, and a number of passages for several speakers, called turba
Turba

Turba literally means crowd in Latin. It may refer more specifically to any text in the biblical Passion of Jesus which is spoken by any group of people, including the Disciple , the Jews, or the soldiers....
 (or crowd) parts, are sung by one of the two choirs. The turba passages are not recitative but are conventional metric music.

Jesus' recitatives are particularly distinctive in that they are always accompanied not only by continuo but by the entire string section of the first orchestra using long, sustained notes, thus creating an effect often referred to as Jesus's "halo". Only his final words, Eli, eli, lama asabthani (Hebrew: "My god, my god, why have you forsaken me?"), are sung without this "halo".

Interpolated texts

The arias, set to texts by Picander
Picander

Picander was the pseudonym of Christian Friedrich Henrici , a Germany poet and libretto for many of Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig cantatas....
, are interspersed between sections of the Gospel text, and are sung by soloists with a variety of instrumental accompaniments, typical of the oratorio style.

The interpolated texts theologically and personally interpret the Gospel texts. Many of them highlight Jesus’ suffering, such as the chorale “Ich bin’s, ich sollte büßen” (“It is I who should suffer and be bound for hell”), the alto aria “Buß und Reu” (portraying a desire to anoint Jesus with her tears), and the bass aria “Mache dich, mein Herze, rein” (his offer to bury Jesus himself). Jesus is often referred to as “my Jesus.” The chorus alternates between participating in the narrative and commenting on it as outside observers.

As is typical of settings of the Passion (and originating it its liturgical use on Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday

Image:Meister der Palastkapelle in Palermo 002.jpg|thumb|300px|'The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem' mosaic by the Master of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo .]]...
), there is no mention of the Resurrection in any of these texts. Following in the footsteps of Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury

Saint Anselm of Canterbury was an Italian medieval philosopher, theology, and church official who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109....
, the crucifixion itself is the endpoint and the source of redemption; the emphasis is on the suffering of Jesus. The chorus sings, “tear me from my fears / Through your own fear and pain.” The bass, calling it the “sweet cross,” says “Yes, of course this flesh and blood in us / want to be forced to the cross; / the better it is for our soul, / the more bitter it feels.“

The “O Lamm Gottes” chorale compares Jesus' crucifixion to the ritual sacrifice of an Old Testament
Old Testament

In Western Christianity, the Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christianity Bible Biblical canon. These works correspond to the Hebrew Bible , with some variations and additions....
 lamb, as an offering for sin. This theme is reinforced by the concluding chorale of the first half, “O Mensch, bewein dein’ Sünde groß” (“O man, bewail your great sin”).

Compositional style

Bach’s recitatives often set the mood for the particular passages by highlighting emotionally charged words such as “crucify,” “kill,” or “mourn” with chromatic melodies. Diminished seventh
Diminished chord

A diminished triad chord is a Triad consisting of a minor third and a diminished fifth above the Root ? if built on C, a diminished chord would have a C, an E and a G....
 chords and sudden modulation
Modulation (music)

In music, modulation is most commonly the act or process of changing from one key to another. This may or may not be accompanied by a change in key signature....
s accompany Jesus's apocalyptic prophecies.

In the turba parts, the two choruses sometimes alternate in cori spezzati style (e.g. “Weissage uns, Christe”) and sometimes sing together (“Herr, wir haben gedacht”); other times only one chorus sings (chorus I always takes the parts of the disciple
Twelve Apostles

In Christianity, apostles were missionaries among the leaders in the Early Christianity and, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, Jesus Christ himself....
s) or alternating, for example when “some bystanders” say “He’s calling for Elijah” and “others” say “Wait to see if Elijah comes to help him.”

In the arias, obbligato
Obbligato

In european classical music obbligato usually describes a musical line that is in some way indispensable in performance. Its opposite is the marking ad libitum....
 instruments are equal partners with the voices, as was customary in late Baroque arias. Bach often uses madrigalisms
Madrigal (music)

A madrigal is a type of secular vocal music composition, written during the Renaissance music and early Baroque music eras. Throughout most of its history it was Polyphony and unaccompanied by instruments, with the number of voices varying from two to eight, but most frequently three to six....
, as in “Buß und Reu,” where the flutes start playing a raindrop-like staccato
Staccato

In musical notation, the Italian language word staccato indicates that note are separated in a detached and distinctly separate manner or short and separated, with silence making up the latter part of the time allocated to each note....
 as the alto sings of drops of his tears falling. In “Blute nur,” the line about the serpent is set with a twisting melody.

Use in cinema

  • The Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky
    Andrei Tarkovsky

    Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet Russians filmmaker, writer and opera director.Tarkovksy is listed among the 100 most critically acclaimed film directors; director Ingmar Bergman was quoted as saying "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life...
     revered Bach, and was, as he wrote in his diaries, particularly moved by the artistry and pathos of the St. Matthew Passion. A recitative from it is used in the The Mirror
    The Mirror (1975 film)

    The Mirror is a 1975 in film Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is loosely autobiographical, blending childhood memories, newsreel footage and poems by his father Arseny Tarkovsky....
     and "Erbarme dich" aria accompanies the opening credits of his last film, The Sacrifice
    The Sacrifice

    The Sacrifice is the final film by Cinema of the Soviet Union film director Andrei Tarkovsky, who died shortly after completing it....
    , which appear against a full-screen detail from Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
    's Adoration of the Magi
    Adoration of the Magi (Leonardo)

    The Adoration of the Magi is an early painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was given the commission by the Augustinians monks of San Donato a Scopeto in Florence, but departed for Milan the following year, leaving the painting unfinished....
    . The first few notes of Erbarme dich are also whistled at the point of leaving the rail cart in the Zone in Tarkovsky's Stalker (or, alternatively, from the Largo from Bach's Sonata #4 for violin and piano).


  • The opening movement is performed in full using original instruments in Jean-Marie Straub
    Jean-Marie Straub

    Jean-Marie Straub and Dani?le Huillet were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style....
     and Danièle Huillet's film The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
    The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

    The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach is a 1968 in film by the French filmmaking duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Dani?le Huillet. It was their first full-length feature film, and reportedly took a decade to finance....
    .


  • The closing chorus of act 1 is used several times in the film Demolition Man
    Demolition Man

    Demolition Man may refer to:*Demolition Man , a 1993 film from Warner Brothers starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock....
    .


  • The final scene of THX 1138
    THX 1138

    THX 1138 is a 1971 in film science fiction film directed by George Lucas, from a screenplay by Lucas and Walter Murch. It depicts a dystopian future in which a high level of control is exerted upon the populace through omnipresent, faceless, android police officers and mandatory, regulated use of special drugs to suppress emotion, includi...
     uses music from the first movement of the St. Matthew Passion.


  • In the film Kingdom of Heaven
    Kingdom of Heaven (film)

    Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 in film epic film, directed by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan. It stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Marton Csokas, Brendan Gleeson, Alexander Siddig, Ghassan Massoud, Edward Norton, Jon Finch, Michael Sheen and Liam Neeson....
    ,     the scene in which Reynald de Chatillon is killed is set to "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" from The Saint Matthew Passion.


  • The No. 78 final Chorus I/II (“Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder”) serves as the opening/closing theme to Martin Scorsese
    Martin Scorsese

    Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
    's 1995 film Casino
    Casino (film)

    Casino is an Academy Award nominated 1995 in film crime film drama film film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese....
    , over a montage of casino lights. Performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
    .


  • Pier Paolo Pasolini
    Pier Paolo Pasolini

    Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italy poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. Pasolini distinguished himself as a journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, Painting and political figure....
     used The Saint Matthew Passion in the score for his 1964 film Il Vangelo secondo Matteo also known as The Gospel According to St. Matthew
    The Gospel According to St. Matthew

    The Gospel According to St. Matthew may refer to:* Gospel of Matthew, one of the four Gospel accounts of the New Testament in the Bible.* The Gospel According to St....
    . The 'Erbarme Dich' is sung by Kirsten Flagstad. Pasolini also used this music in his earlier film Accattone
    Accattone

    Accattone is a 1961 Italy film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Despite being filmed from an original screenplay, academics perceive Accattone as a cinematic rendition of Pasolini's earlier novels, particularly Ragazzi di vita and A Violent Life....
    .


  • It is used (Along with other Bach's compositions) in Je vous salue, Marie (1985) a film by Jean-Luc Godard
    Jean-Luc Godard

    Jean-Luc Godard is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".Godard was born to French people-Swiss parents in Paris....
    .


  • A version of the movement Erbarme dich in The Saint Matthew Passion, named O Perdão (The Forgiveness), adapted by Marco Antônio Guimarães, is used in the end of Lavoura Arcaica.


  • The bass aria Mache dich mein Herze rein, as sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    The German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is a German singer and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous lieder singers of his generation....
     in the 1958 Karl Richter recording, is used in the film The Talented Mr. Ripley
    The Talented Mr. Ripley

    The Talented Mr. Ripley is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. This novel first introduced the character of Tom Ripley, who would return in the novels Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley and Ripley Under Water, known collectively as the Ripliad....


  • "Erbarme Dich, mein Gott" is used in the Czech film Musíme si pomáhat (Divided we Fall, 2000), directed by Jan Hrebejk
    Jan Hrebejk

    Jan Hrebejk is a Czech Republic film director. He studied together with his frequent scriptwriter Petr Jarchovsk? at high school and, from 1987 to 1991, at FAMU, an arts college in Prague for film and television, studying screenplay and dramaturgy....
    , which deals with how the "small man" copes with oppression under totalitarian regimes such as Nazism and communism. The film argues, slightly tongue-in-cheek, that oppression under such regimes is so lethal that we have no moral right to judge what people did under the circumstances. There is a powerful, final sequence, in which the main character, Mr. Cizek (a kind of Czech Everyman) walks in May 1945, during the chaotic and brutal final days of the Second World War, with his newly born "son" through a street full of debris from destroyed tenements in the middle of which a number of characters, previously killed during the convoluted story of Nazi oppression, are sitting at a table. This final sequence is accompanied by Bach's aria "Have mercy, God, on our frailty!" and makes the conclusion of the film rather impressive, turns it into a plea for God's mercy over human insufficiencies.
  • Featured in the 2005 Tony Scott
    Tony Scott

    Anthony D. L. "Tony" Scott is an England film director. His films include Top Gun , Days of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Crimson Tide , Enemy of the State and Spy Game....
     film Domino
    Domino (film)

    Domino is a 2005 in film Action film inspired by the story of Domino Harvey, the English daughter of stage and screen actor Laurence Harvey, who became a bounty hunter working in Los Angeles....
    .


  • The start of the Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo
    Gillo Pontecorvo

    Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian Cinema of Italy, best known for The Battle of Algiers although he directed several movies before its release in 1966, such as the drama Kap? , which takes place in a World War II concentration camp....
    .


  • The finale of the PBS documentary Oswald's Ghost used BWV 244 67-68. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0R0dSiDes


  • Michael Winterbottom's JUDE (1996) uses the chorus "Wir setzen uns" when Jude and Sue are watching a procession.


  • Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995) uses Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder during the explosion of a car bomb.


Notable recordings


On modern instruments

  • Karl Richter
    Karl Richter

    Karl Richter was a Germany conducting, organist, and harpsichordist. He was born in Plauen and studied first in Dresden, where he was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor and later in Leipzig, where he received his degree in 1949....
    , cond. Archiv Produktion, 1959, later re-released (Choruses & Arias only) on Deutsche Grammophon
    Deutsche Grammophon

    Deutsche Grammophon is a Germany classical record label, now part of the Universal Music Group. The company has long been known for its high standards of high fidelity....
    .
Münchener Bach-Chor, Münchener Chorknaben, Münchener Bach-Orchester.
Soloists: Ernst Haefliger, Keith Engen, Irmgard Seefried, Antonia Fahberg, Hertha Töpper, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is a German singer and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous lieder singers of his generation....
, Max Proebstl


  • Otto Klemperer
    Otto Klemperer

    Otto Klemperer was a German-born Conducting and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century....
    , cond. EMI
    EMI

    The EMI Group is a United Kingdom music company comprising the major record label EMI Music ? which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in London, England, United Kingdom ? and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York City....
    , 1962
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
Soloists: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Order of the British Empire was a German-born Austrian/British opera singer and recitalist. She was amongst the most renowned opera singers of the 20th Century, much admired for her performances of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf....
, Christa Ludwig
Christa Ludwig

Christa Ludwig is a Germany retired mezzo-soprano, distinguished for her performances of opera and Lieder. Her career spanned from the late 1940s until the early 1990s....
, Peter Pears
Peter Pears

Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears was an England tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin Britten.He was educated at Lancing College and went on to study music at Keble College, Oxford, serving as organist at Hertford College, Oxford, but left without taking his degree....
, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is a German singer and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous lieder singers of his generation....
, Heather Harper
Heather Harper

Heather Harper Order of the British Empire is an Irish people operatic soprano.She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she received her early musical training....
, Geraint Evans
Geraint Evans

Sir Geraint Llewellyn Evans was a Wales baritone noted for operatic roles including Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberfl?te, and the title roles in Falstaff and Wozzeck....
, Walter Berry
Walter Berry (opera singer)

Walter Berry was an Austrian bass-baritone.He studied voice at the Vienna Music Academy and made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1947....


  • Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
    , cond. Columbia Masterworks Records
    Columbia Masterworks Records

    Columbia Masterworks Records was a record label started in 1927 in music by Columbia Records.It was intended for releases of classical music and artists, as opposed to popular music, which bore the regular Columbia logo....
    , 1962, later re-released on Sony Masterworks. Slightly abridged and sung in English
New York Philharmonic
New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States, organized during 1842. Based in New York City, the Philharmonic performs most of its concerts at Avery Fisher Hall....
, Collegiate Chorale
Collegiate Chorale

The Collegiate Chorale is a symphonic choir based in New York City, USA. It was founded in 1941 by Robert Shaw , who was later to found the professional Robert Shaw Chorale....
Soloists, Adele Addison
Adele Addison

Adele Addison is an African American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during the 1950s and 1960s. Although she did appear in several operas, Addison spent most of her career performing in recital and concert....
, William Wildermann, David Lloyd, Charles Bressler
Charles Bressler

Charles Bressler was an American tenor.He was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania and studied at Juilliard. He became a founding member of the New York Pro Musica, with which he toured from 1953-1963....
, Donaldson Bell, Betty Allen


  • Helmuth Rilling
    Helmuth Rilling

    Helmuth Rilling is a German conductor.He was born in Stuttgart into a musical family. He received his early training in Protestant seminaries in W?rttemberg....
    , cond. Columbia Masterworks Records
    Columbia Masterworks Records

    Columbia Masterworks Records was a record label started in 1927 in music by Columbia Records.It was intended for releases of classical music and artists, as opposed to popular music, which bore the regular Columbia logo....
    , 1978, later re-released on Sony Masterworks.
Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart and the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart
Soloists: Adalbert Kraus, Arleen Augér
Arleen Auger

Joyce Arleen Auger was an American soprano singer, admired for her coloratura voice and interpretations of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Gluck, and Mozart....
, Ann Murray
Ann Murray

Ann Murray Order of the British Empire is an Ireland mezzo-soprano. She was born on August 27, 1949, in Dublin. She studied with Frederick Cox at the Royal Manchester College of Music and made her stage debut as Alcestis in Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste in 1974....
, Julia Hamari, Aldo Baldin, Siegmund Nimsgern
Siegmund Nimsgern

Siegmund Nimsgern is a Germany bass-baritone, born in Sankt Wendel, Saarland, Germany.After leaving school in 1960 he studied singing and musical education at the Hochschule f?r Musik Saar....
, Philippe Hutenlocher


  • Sir David Willcocks
    Sir David Willcocks

    Sir David Valentine Willcocks Order of the British Empire Military Cross is a renowned British choir conducting, Organ , and composing. His son, Jonathan Willcocks, is also a composer....
    , cond. Decca Records
    Decca Records

    Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
    , 1979, re-released in 2006 on Universal Classics. Sung in English.
The Thames Chamber Orchestra, The Bach Choir
The Bach Choir

The Bach Choir is one of the world?s leading large choruses. Based in London, UK, it has around 220 active members. The Choir's Musical Director is David Hill and previous musical directors have included Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Dr Ralph Vaughan Williams, Reginald Jacques and Sir David Willcocks....
 and The Boys of St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
Soloists: Robert Tear
Robert Tear

Robert Tear is a Wales tenor and conductor. His operatic debut was in 1966 as Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw on the English Opera Group's tour of England and Russia....
, John Shirley-Quirk
John Shirley-Quirk

John Shirley-Quirk Order of the British Empire is an English bass-baritone.He was born in Liverpool, England, and sang in his high school choir....
, Felicity Lott
Felicity Lott

Dame Felicity Lott, Order of British Empire is an English soprano, universally known as Flott.From her earliest years, she was musical, having started studying piano at five....
, Alfreda Hodgson, Neil Jenkins
Neil Jenkins

Neil Jenkins Order of the British Empire is a former rugby union footballer who played fly half, centre , or fullback for Pontypridd RFC, Cardiff Blues, Celtic Warriors, Wales national rugby union team and the British and Irish Lions....
, Stephen Roberts
Stephen Roberts

Stephen Roberts is a football player who currently plays for Walsall F.C.. He has also represented Wales at Wales national under-21 football team level....


  • Sir Georg Solti, cond. Decca Records
    Decca Records

    Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
    , 1988.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five "....
 and Chorus.
Soloists: Kiri Te Kanawa
Kiri Te Kanawa

Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa, Order of New Zealand, Order of the British Empire, Order of Australia, is a New Zealand soprano who had a highly successful international opera career between 1968-2004....
, Anne-Sofie von Otter
Anne-Sofie von Otter

Anne Sofie von Otter is a Swedish ethnic group mezzo-soprano....
, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Anthony Rolfe Johnson

Anthony Rolfe Johnson is an England tenor singing.Born in Tackley, he studied with Ellis Keeler and Vera Rosza at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama....
, Tom Krause, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Olaf Bär
Olaf Bär

Olaf B?r is a Germany operatic baritone.B?r received his musical training in his home city of Dresden. His career has concentrated on the Baritone#Lyric baritone roles of the operatic repertoire, and as a performer of lieder....


  • Herbert von Karajan
    Herbert von Karajan

    Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian orchestra and opera conducting, one of the most renowned 20th-century conductors. His obituary in The New York Times described him as "probably the world's best-known conductor and one of the most powerful figures in classical music." Karajan conducted the Berlin Philharmonic for thirty-five years....
    , cond. Deutsche Grammophon
    Deutsche Grammophon

    Deutsche Grammophon is a Germany classical record label, now part of the Universal Music Group. The company has long been known for its high standards of high fidelity....
    , 1/1972.
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

The Berlin Philharmonic , is an orchestra based in Berlin, Germany. In 2006, a group of ten European media outlets voted the Berlin Philharmonic number three on a list of "top ten European Orchestras", after the Vienna Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra....
, Wiener Singverein
Wiener Singverein

The Wiener Singverein is a choir founded in 1858 in Vienna by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.The choir has 180 members, which makes it the largest in Vienna....
 (choir master : Helmut Froschauer), Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (choir master : Walter Hagen-Groll), Knabenstimmen des Staats- und Domchores, Berlin (choir master : Karl Heinz Kaiser) .
Soloists: Gundula Janowitz
Gundula Janowitz

Gundula Janowitz is an Austrian singer of operas, oratorios and concerts. She is one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th Century and was pre-eminent in the 1960s and 1970s....
, Christa Ludwig
Christa Ludwig

Christa Ludwig is a Germany retired mezzo-soprano, distinguished for her performances of opera and Lieder. Her career spanned from the late 1940s until the early 1990s....
, Peter Schreier
Peter Schreier

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R0423-0017, Berlin,Generalprobe Er?ffnung Palast der Republik.jpgPeter Schreier is a German tenor and conducting....
, Anton Diakov, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

The German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is a German singer and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous lieder singers of his generation....
, Walter Berry
Walter Berry (opera singer)

Walter Berry was an Austrian bass-baritone.He studied voice at the Vienna Music Academy and made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1947....
, Horst Laubenthal


On period instruments

  • Philippe Herreweghe
    Philippe Herreweghe

    Philippe Herreweghe is a Belgium Conducting.In his school years at the University of Ghent, Herreweghe combined studies in medical science and psychiatry with a musical education at the Ghent Conservatory, where Marcel Gazelle, Yehudi Menuhin's accompanist, was his piano teacher....
    , cond. Harmonia Mundi
    Harmonia Mundi

    Harmonia Mundi is an independent music record label founded in 1958 by Bernard Coutaz in Arles . The Latin phrase means "world harmony".Its catalog is essentially devoted to classical music, and through the World Village label to world music....
    , 1985.
La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent
Soloists: Howard Crook
Howard Crook

Howard Crook is an American lyric tenor who has lived and worked in the Netherlands and France since the early 1980s.He was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, and educated at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and then University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received a master's degree in music, specialising in opera....
, Ulrik Cold, Barbara Schlick
Barbara Schlick

Barbara Schlick is a Germany soprano who is particularly admired for interpretations of the concert literature of the baroque music....
, René Jacobs
René Jacobs

Ren? Jacobs is a Belgium musician. He came to fame as a countertenor but in recent years has become renowned as a conducting of Baroque and early Classical opera....
, Hans-Peter Blochwitz, Peter Kooy
  • John Eliot Gardiner
    John Eliot Gardiner

    Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE Fellowship of King's College London is an England conducting. He founded the Monteverdi Choir , the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre R?volutionnaire et Romantique ....
    , cond. Archiv Produktion, 1989.
English Baroque Soloists
English Baroque Soloists

The English Baroque Soloists is a chamber orchestra playing on authentic performance, formed in 1978 by English people Conducting John Eliot Gardiner....
, Monteverdi Choir
Monteverdi Choir

The Monteverdi Choir was founded in 1964 by John Eliot Gardiner for a performance of the Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 in King's College Chapel, Cambridge....
Soloists: Barbara Bonney
Barbara Bonney

Barbara Bonney is an United States soprano.Bonney was born in Montclair, New Jersey, New Jersey. As a child she studied piano and cello. When Bonney was 13 her family moved to Maine, where she became part of the Portland Youth Orchestra as a cellist....
, Anne-Sofie von Otter
Anne-Sofie von Otter

Anne Sofie von Otter is a Swedish ethnic group mezzo-soprano....
, Michael Chance
Michael Chance

Michael Chance Order of the British Empire is an England countertenor.Chance was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire, into a musical family. After growing up as a chorister he attended Eton College, Berkshire, and later King's College, Cambridge, where he read English....
, Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Anthony Rolfe Johnson

Anthony Rolfe Johnson is an England tenor singing.Born in Tackley, he studied with Ellis Keeler and Vera Rosza at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama....
, Andreas Schmidt
Andreas Schmidt

Andreas Schmidt was born March 28, 1961 in the small university town of G?ttingen, Germany. Before he became a journalist by profession, Schmidt dropped out of high school in 1977 to join the German Federal Police....
  • Ton Koopman
    Ton Koopman

    Ton Koopman is a Conducting, organist and harpsichordist.Koopman had a "classical education" and then studied the pipe organ , harpsichord and musicology in Amsterdam....
    , cond. Erato
    Erato

    In Greek mythology, Erato is one of the Greek Muses. The name would mean "lovely" if derived from Eros , as Apollonius of Rhodes playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his Argonautica....
    , 1993
Netherlands Bach Society, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Soloists: Guy de Mey
Guy de Mey

Guy de Mey is a Belgium classical tenor who has appeared in operas and concerts in Europe, the United States, Canada, Israel, and Japan. A winner of the Sint-Niklaas's National Music Competition , he received vocal training from Erna Spoorenberg, Sir Peter Pears and Eric Tappy....
 (Evangelist), Peter Kooy (Jesus), Barbara Schlick
Barbara Schlick

Barbara Schlick is a Germany soprano who is particularly admired for interpretations of the concert literature of the baroque music....
, Kai Wessel, Christoph Pregardien
Christoph Prégardien

Christoph Pr?gardien Born in Limburg an der Lahn, Germany, he began his musical education as a choirboy at Limburger Domsingknaben. He then studied singing with Martin Gr?ndler and Karlheinz Jarius in Frankfurt, Carla Castellani in Milan, Alois Treml in Stuttgart and attended Hartmut H?ll's lieder-class....
, Klaus Mertens
  • Jos van Veldhoven
    Jos van Veldhoven

    Jos van Veldhoven is a Dutch choral conductor. Although he is a regular guest artist with international orchestras, he is most known as the artistic director of ....
    , cond. Channel Classics, 1997.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Netherlands Bach Society
Soloists: Johannette Zomer, Andreas Scholl
Andreas Scholl

Andreas Scholl is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range. He specialises in Baroque music. His range is the same as that of the celebrated 18th century alto castrato, Senesino, for whom George Frideric Handel wrote his greatest alto roles....
, Hans-Jorg Mammel, Peter Kooy, Gerd Turk (Evangelist), Geert Schmits (Jesus)
  • Philippe Herreweghe
    Philippe Herreweghe

    Philippe Herreweghe is a Belgium Conducting.In his school years at the University of Ghent, Herreweghe combined studies in medical science and psychiatry with a musical education at the Ghent Conservatory, where Marcel Gazelle, Yehudi Menuhin's accompanist, was his piano teacher....
    , cond. Harmonia Mundi
    Harmonia Mundi

    Harmonia Mundi is an independent music record label founded in 1958 by Bernard Coutaz in Arles . The Latin phrase means "world harmony".Its catalog is essentially devoted to classical music, and through the World Village label to world music....
    , 1998.
Collegium Vocale Gent
Soloists: Ian Bostridge
Ian Bostridge

Ian Bostridge Order of the British Empire is an acclaimed England tenor, well known for his performances as an opera singer and as a song recitalist....
, Franz-Josef Selig, Sibylla Rubens, Andreas Scholl
Andreas Scholl

Andreas Scholl is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range. He specialises in Baroque music. His range is the same as that of the celebrated 18th century alto castrato, Senesino, for whom George Frideric Handel wrote his greatest alto roles....
, Werner Güra, Dietrich Henschel
  • Masaaki Suzuki
    Masaaki Suzuki

    is a Japanese people pipe organ, harpsichordist and Conducting, and the founder and musical director of the Bach Collegium Japan.He was born in Kobe to parents who were both Christianity and amateur musicians....
    , cond. BIS
    BIS Records

    BIS Records is a record label founded in 1973 by Robert von Bahr. It is located in ?kersberga, Sweden.BIS focuses on European classical music, both Contemporary classical music and Early music, especially works that are not already well represented by existing recordings....
    , 1999.
Bach Collegium Japan
Bach Collegium Japan

The Bach Collegium Japan is an orchestra and chorus specialising in Baroque music. It was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki. Since 1995 they have produced forty recordings in a series of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas on the BIS Records label....
Soloists: Gerd Turk (Evangelist), Peter Kooy (Jesus), Nancy Argenta
Nancy Argenta

Nancy Maureen Argenta is a Canada soprano singer, best known for performing music from the pre-classical era. She has won international acclaim, and is considered by many as the leading Handel soprano of her time....
, Robin Blaze
Robin Blaze

Robin Blaze is an English countertenor....
, Makoto Sakurada, Chiyuki Urano
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt
    Nikolaus Harnoncourt

    Nikolaus Harnoncourt is an Austrian Conducting, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the classical music era era and earlier....
    , cond. Teldec
    Teldec

    TELDEC, or Teldec Record Service Gesellschaft mit beschr?nkter Haftung is a Germany record label in Hamburg, Germany. Today the label is a property of Warner Music Group....
    . 2001 Grammy Award for "Best Choral Performance",2001 Gramophone magazine award for "Best Baroque Vocal Recording."
Concentus Musicus Wien
Concentus Musicus Wien

Concentus Musicus Wien is a baroque music ensemble founded by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and his wife, Alice Harnoncourt, in 1953, which was largely responsible for the movement to play early music on period instruments....
, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Sangerknaben
Soloists: Christoph Pregardien
Christoph Prégardien

Christoph Pr?gardien Born in Limburg an der Lahn, Germany, he began his musical education as a choirboy at Limburger Domsingknaben. He then studied singing with Martin Gr?ndler and Karlheinz Jarius in Frankfurt, Carla Castellani in Milan, Alois Treml in Stuttgart and attended Hartmut H?ll's lieder-class....
 (Evangelist), Matthias Goerne
Matthias Goerne

Matthias Goerne is a Germany baritone.Born in Weimar, he studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf....
 (Jesus), Dorothea Röschmann
Dorothea Röschmann

Dorothea R?schmann is a Germany opera soprano from Flensburg....
, Michael Schade
Michael Schade

Michael Schade is a Canadian operatic tenor, who was born in Geneva and raised in Germany and Canada. He and his four children live near Toronto....
, Elizabeth Magnus-Harnoncourt, Markus Schäfer, Dietrich Henschel, Christine Schäfer
Christine Schäfer

Christine Sch?fer is a Germany soprano. She studied from 1984 until 1991 at the Hochschule f?r Musik in Berlin, where her teachers were Ingrid Figur and Aribert Reimann....
, Jan Leibnitz, Oliver Widmer, Bernarda Fink
Bernarda Fink

Bernarda Fink is an Argentina mezzo-soprano. Born in Buenos Aires to Slovenian parents, Bernarda Fink studied at the "Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Col?n" in Buenos Aires....
.


  • Enoch zu Guttenberg
    Enoch zu Guttenberg

    Georg Enoch Robert Prosper Philipp Franz Karl Theodor Maria Heinrich Johannes Luitpold Hartmann Gundeloh Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg , known as Enoch zu Guttenberg, is a German conductor....
    , cond. Farao Classics, 2003.
Orchester der Klangverwaltung, Chorgemeinschaft Neubeuern, Tölzer Knabenchor
Soloists: Marcus Ullmann (Evangelist), Klaus Mertens (Jesus), Anna Korondi, Anke Vondung, Werner Güra, Hans Christoph Begemann.
  • Paul McCreesh
    Paul McCreesh

    Paul McCreesh is an English Conducting.Paul McCreesh is founder and artistic director of the Gabrieli Consort & Players, with whom he has established himself at the highest level in the period instrument field; he is recognised for his authoritative and innovative performances on the concert platform and the opera house....
    , cond. Archiv Produktion, 2003.
Gabrieli Consort and Players
Soloists: Choir 1: Deborah York, Magdalena Kožená
Magdalena Kožená

Magdalena Ko?en? is a Czech Republicmezzo-soprano.She was born in Brno, the daughter of a mathematician father and a biologist mother. Her original goal was to be a pianist, but she broke her hand at the age of six and switched to singing, starting in the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra children's choir....
, Mark Padmore
Mark Padmore

Mark Padmore is a United Kingdom tenor appearing in concerts, recitals, and opera.Born in London 8 March 1961, and raised in Canterbury, England, Padmore studied clarinet and piano prior to his gaining a choral scholarship to King's College, Cambridge....
, Peter Harvey. Choir 2: Julia Gooding, Susan Bickley, James Gilchrist, Stephan Loges - this recording uses one singer per part throughout.
  • Ton Koopman
    Ton Koopman

    Ton Koopman is a Conducting, organist and harpsichordist.Koopman had a "classical education" and then studied the pipe organ , harpsichord and musicology in Amsterdam....
    , cond. Challenge Classics, 2006
Amsterdam Baroque Choir, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Soloists: Jorg Durmuller (Evangelist), Ekkehard Abele
Ekkehard Abele

Ekkehard Abele is a Germany operatic bass-baritone. He first gained recognition when he won the International J.S. Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1996....
 (Jesus), Cornelia Samuelis, Bogna Bartosz, Paul Agnew
Paul Agnew

Paul Agnew is a Scottish operatic tenor.Agnew read music as a Choral Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the Consort of Musicke, the Tallis Scholars, the Sixteen and the Gothic Voices, before embarking on a solo career in the early 1990s....
, Klaus Mertens


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