Label: Erato Records (Europe), 4509-94675-2
Style: Classical, Baroque
Country: Leipzig, Germany (1 March 1685 - 28 July 1750)
Time: 59:30, 49:03
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 226, 174 Mb
The
Passio secundum Joannem or St John Passion (German: Johannes-Passion),
BWV 245, is a Passion or oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, the earliest
of the surviving Passions by Bach. It was written during his first year
as director of church music in Leipzig and was first performed on 7
April 1724, at Good Friday Vespers at the St. Nicholas Church.
The
structure of the work falls in two halves, intended to flank a sermon.
The anonymous libretto draws on existing works (notably by Barthold
Heinrich Brockes) and is compiled from recitatives and choruses
narrating the Passion of Christ as told in the Gospel of John, ariosos
and arias reflecting on the action, and chorales using hymn tunes and
texts familiar to a congregation of Bach's contemporaries. Compared with
the St Matthew Passion, the St John Passion has been described as more
extravagant, with an expressive immediacy, at times more unbridled and
less "finished".
The work is most often heard today in the 1739–1749
version (never performed during Bach's lifetime). Bach first performed
the oratorio in 1724 and revised it in 1725, 1730, and 1749, adding
several numbers. "O Mensch, bewein dein Sunde gro?", a 1725 replacement
for the opening chorus, found a new home in the 1736 St Matthew Passion
but several arias from the revisions are found only in the appendices to
modern editions.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Passion)
TrackList CD1: Tracks 1-40
TrackList CD2: Tracks 1-28
CD1: TurboBit KatFile FreeDlink
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