by Gabrieli Players · Archiv Produktion · CD · EAN 0028947420026
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«St Matthew Passion» is the album by Johann Sebastian Bach with the Gabrieli Players and Paul McCreesh, released in 2003 by Archiv Produktion as a double CD.
Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244 is a sacred oratorio on the passion and death of Christ, with double choir and orchestra. Paul McCreesh conducts the Gabrieli Players, with Mark Padmore as the Evangelist and Peter Harvey as Jesus. It includes «Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen», «Buß und Reu» and «Ich will bei meinem Jesu wachen».
The edition consists of two discs and totals 161 minutes. The Gabrieli Consort and the Gabrieli Players perform, with Deborah York, Julia Gooding, Magdalena Kožená, Susan Bickley, James Gilchrist and Stephan Loges.
For fans of classical music, sacred music and great choral oratorios.
