La Passion Selon Saint-Jean

DESCRIPCIÓN DEL PRODUCTO
DESCRIPCIÓN DEL PRODUCTO
Pour la première fois sur disque, les mélomanes peuvent apprécier la bouleversante Passion selon Saint Jean de Bach dans son contexte liturgique original. Cet enregistrement marque le retour de l équipe star du Dunedin Consort, à savoir Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook, Robert Davies, Joanne Lunn et Clare Wilkinson.

OPINIÓN
When we perform religious music in the concert hall,inevitably we lose a sense of context,both of a church building but also of the surrounding liturgy.This historic and supremely important new recording restores Bach's dramatic Passion to the setting for which it was designed,with prayers,chorales,organ preludes and even(if you download it)a sermon.The result is to contextualise brilliantly Bach's thinking:some aspects will surprise (unaccompanied unison chorale singing), others are maybe questionable(a Gallus motet follows without a pause at the end of the Passion),while others are revelatory(organ preludes before the two parts of the Passion).Enclosed within is a really fine,taut,mainly single-voice account of Bach's music led by Nicholas Mulroy's powerful Evangelist and Matthew Brook's affecting Christ which somehow acquires new power for emerging from its spartan surroundings.John Butt's research and direction are an object lesson in musical study brought to compelling life. --The Observer 24/3/13

Indeed, naturalness and emotional honesty are what emerge from this tight-knit and perfectly paced ensemble Passion, in which Bach s complex succession of recitatives, arias, choruses and chorales has surely seldom sounded so convincingly of a piece. --Gramophone - April 2013 - Recording of the Month

Butt s contextualising demands to be heard: it s nothing short of a revelation. --BBC Music Magazine - May 2013 - Recording of the Month

The liturgical experience offers benefits to heart and mind.Hearing the extras congregational chorales(warmly delivered by Glasgow University's Chapel Choir),we trace the connections with the Passion's choruses and chorales.The sense of community drama is increased.The artists themselves bring pleasure.the Dunedin Consort and their director John Butt attack the music with customary verve. --The Times

Until recently the status of John Eliot Gardiner's recordings of the Bach Passions, Christmas Oratorio and b-minor Mass (DG - see below) was unassailed. John Butt and the Dunedin Consort on Linn challenged the hegemony of Gardiner's Matthew Passion a couple of years ago and now they've done it again with the John Passion. --Music Web - CD of the Month

ARTISTA BIOGRAFÍA
The Dunedin Consort has established a reputation as the finest single-part period performance choir currently performing,under the direction of prize-winning Bach specialist John Butt O.B.E. The multi-award-winning Dunedin Consort has won praise for the natural style of its soloists and renown for the virtuosity of its singers.Since receiving a Gramophone Award in 2007,Dunedin Consort has continued to receive accolades:Esther was voted one of the Top 10 Classical Albums of 2012 by The Times,2011 saw them included in Gramophone's Twenty Greatest Choirs list and its recording of Bach's Matthew Passion was named Building A Library:First Choice by BBC Radio 3 - CD Review.

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