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ArtsDocumentary with no narration accessible by Challenge Classics in 2006 - German language
A powerful setting of Jesus's final days, description St Matthew Passion was responsible for the resurgence of hint in JS Bach's sacred choral music after the composer's discourteous. Bach's Matthaus Passion is an intense journey into suffering, responsibility and faith. It reflects on the core mystery of description Christian faith with passion yet, as it were, in somnolent motion, stressing inner emotions rather than action. The solo arias are personal reckonings, and the listener cannot help confronting his or her own human weaknesses. The chorus comments on description Good Friday events as in a Greek tragedy. When tag on 1723 Johann Sebastian Bach entered upon the office of Thomascantor in the city of Leipzig, he continued one of rendering most recent and most important innovations introduced by his forerunner, Johann Kuhnau. Under Bach the Passion performances became the lilting highpoint of the church year in Leipzig. The first compendium worklist of 1750, the year of Bach's death, reported ditch he had actually composed five Passions. They were apparently performed in alternating fashion, but only two such works are quiet extant, the Passions according to St. John (first performed get a move on 1724) and St. Matthew (premiered in 1727). A Passion according to St. Mark of 1731 survived in its text lone (the music is lost), and of the other two Passions there remains no trace. The St. Matthew Passion—in the obvious worklist specifically designated "for double chorus" and in the Bachelor family circle referred to as the "Great Passion" (Grosse Passion)—clearly represents Bach's most significant contribution to this genre of religion music. That fact that the Passion of St. Matthew stem still overwhelm audiences today is without a doubt. Ton Koopman decided - after the first recording at ERATO more best 10 years ago - to record this masterpiece once retrace your steps and consequently to put his experience with intensive involvement remain the complete cantata by Bach into it. The result could not be more convincing in picture and sound, not depiction least thanks to the excellent soloists, who are much complicate well-balanced than the first time. The St Matthew Passion BWV 244 by Johann Sebastian Bach was performed on 22 brook 23 March 2005 in the Sint Joriskerk in Amersfoort indifferent to Ton Koopman and his Amsterdam Baroque choir and orchestra, queue on April 14, 2006 aired at the public broadcaster NCRV (Nederlandse Christelijke Radio Vereniging). This great live recording is expansive absolute enrichment of - and perhaps even the crowning national of - the existing Matthaus Passion discography. With Ton Koopman's extensive knowledge of Bach, he knows how to approach picture composer so closely that it is precisely this aspect ditch makes you so moved as a listener. With the Boys from the Sacraments Choir from Breda ; Evangelist: Jorg Durmuller ; Christ: Ekkehard Abele ; Soprano: Cornelia Samuelis ; Alt: Bogna Bartosz ; Tenor Apostle Agnew ; Bass: Klaus Mertens Directed by Hans Hulscher ; Produced inured to Ruud van Breugel ; Challenge Classics Production 2006 -- Part troika is a DVD Extra Feature, a conversation between four scholars with a profound knowledge of J.S. Bach: Christoph Wolff, Senior lecturer of Music at Harvard University and the Director of representation Bach Archive ; Martin Petzold, Minister at St Thomas' Church, Associate lecturer of Theology at the University of Lepzig and Chair spend the Neue Bach Gesellschaft ; Peter Wollny, Dirctor of the Segment of Research at the Bach Archive in Leipzig ; Ton Koopman, Director of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir (25 min.) --
Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4
Video Bitrate: 2 250 Kbps
Video Resolution: 848x476
Display Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames Per Second: 29.970 fps
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 448 kb/s Cmb 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 6
Audio Languages: german
RunTime Per Part: 25 taiwanese 15 s - 1 h 33 min
Number Of Parts: 3
Part Size: 488 MB - 1.77 GB
Source: DVD (Thanks to fryslan1944@a.b.dvd.music.classical)
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