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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244

Robert Tear (Evangelist), John Shirley-Quirk (Christus), Felicity Lott, Neil Jenkins, Alfreda Hodgson & Stephen Roberts

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
The most striking thing is its lightness of touch. Tempos are brisk and businesslike, the choral tone buoyant and the orchestral playing nimble and discreet...English language recitatives can...

Gramophone Magazine, July 1994

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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244

Robert Tear (Evangelist), John Shirley-Quirk (Christus), Felicity Lott, Neil Jenkins, Alfreda Hodgson & Stephen Roberts

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

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The most striking thing is its lightness of touch. Tempos are brisk and businesslike, the choral tone buoyant and the orchestral playing nimble and discreet...English language recitatives can...

Gramophone Magazine, July 1994

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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Work length3:05:26
Chorus: "Come, ye Daughters, Share my Mourning"
Track length8:34
Recitative: "When Jesus had completed all..."
Track length0:51
Chorus: "O blessed Jesu.."
Track length0:53
Recitative: "At that time there assembled the chief priests"
Track length0:25
Chorus: "Not upon the feast"
Track length0:17
Recitative:"Now when Jesus was in Bethany"
Track length0:33
Chorus: "To what purpose is this waste"
Track length0:32
Recitative: " When Jesus understood it"
Track length1:34
Recitative: "My Master and my Lord"
Track length1:01
Aria: "Grief for sin"
Track length4:44
Recitative: "Then went one of the disciples"
Track length0:38
Aria: "Break in grief"
Track length5:15
Recitative: "Now on the first day of the unleavened bread"
Track length0:12
Chorus: "Where, where, where wilt thou...
Track length0:22
Recit / Chorus: "He said, Go to one in the city yonder"
Track length1:52
Chorus: "Tis I, whose sins have bound thee..."
Track length0:54
Recitative: "He answered them and said"
Track length3:24
Recitative: "Although our eyes with tears o'erflow"
Track length1:23
Aria: "Jesus, Saviour, I am thine"
Track length3:49
Recit: "And after they had sung a hymn together"
Track length1:12
Chorus: "Receive me, my Redeemer"
Track length1:02
Recit: "Simon Peter made answer"
Track length1:13
Chorus: "Here would I stand beside Thee"
Track length1:04
Recitative: " Then came Jesus with them"
Track length2:13
Recitative: "O grief! how throbs this heavy laden breast!"
Track length2:08
Aria: "I would beside my Lord be watching"
Track length5:29
Recit: "And he went away"
Track length0:45
Recit: "The Saviour, low before His father bending"
Track length1:05
Aria: "Gladly would I take upon me"
Track length4:19
Recitative: "And he came to his disciples"
Track length1:28
Chorale: "O Father, let thy will be done"
Track length1:12
Recitative: "And he came again and found them sleeping
Track length2:30
Duet & Chorus: "Behold, my Saviour Now is Taken"
Track length4:58
Recitative: "And behold, one of the others"
Track length2:26
Chorus: "O Man, thy Grievous Sin Bemoan"
Track length7:05
Aria / Chorus: "Ah! now is my Saviour gone"
Track length4:24
Recit: "And they that had laid hold on Jesus"
Track length1:01
Chorus: "How falsely doth the world accuse"
Track length0:54
Recitative: "Yea, though many lying witnesses came forward"
Track length1:19
Recitative: "He holds His peace"
Track length1:03
Aria: "Endure, Endure"
Track length3:38
Recit / Chorus: "And the high priest answered
Track length1:43
Recit / Chorus: "And then with one accord they did spit
Track length0:34
Chorus: "O Lord, who dares to smite Thee"
Track length0:52
Recit / Chorus: "Simon Peter sat outside in the court"
Track length1:08
Recit: "And then began he to curse and to swear"
Track length1:22
Aria: "Have mercy, Lord, have mercy, Lord, on me"
Track length6:44
Chorus: "Lamb of God, I fall before Thee"
Track length1:07
Recit / Chorus: "Now when the morning came"
Track length1:05
Recit: "And he cast the silver pieces down in the temple"
Track length0:44
Aria: "Give, O give me back my Lord"
Track length3:36
Recitative: "And they took counsel together"
Track length2:14
Chorus: "Commit thy way to Jesus"
Track length1:15
Recit,Chorus: "At that feast then"
Track length2:32
Chorus: "O wondrous love, that suffers this correction"
Track length0:55
Recit: "The governor answered.."
Track length0:13
Recit: "To all men Jesus good hath done"
Track length1:14
Aria: "For love my Saviour now is dying"
Track length5:04
Recit / Chorus: "But they cried out the more"
Track length2:18
Recit: "O Gracious God"
Track length1:16
Aria: "If my tears be unavailing"
Track length7:46
Recit,Chorus: "And then did the soldiers..."
Track length1:26
Chorus: "O Sacred Head Surrounded"
Track length2:30
Recitative: "And after they had mocked at Him"
Track length1:25
Recitative: "In truth, to bear the Cross"
Track length0:42
Aria: "Come healing cross"
Track length7:09
Recit / Chorus: "And when they came unto the place"
Track length3:45
Recit: "The same was cast in His teeth by the robbers"
Track length0:16
Recit: "Ah, Golgotha! Unhappy Golgotha!"
Track length1:47
Aria / Chorus: "See ye! See the Saviour's outstretched hands!
Track length3:49
Recit / Chorus: "Now from the sixth hour"
Track length2:48
Chorus: "Be near me, Lord, when dying"
Track length1:44
Recit / Chorus: "And then, behold, the veil..."
Track length3:06
Recit: "At evening, hour of calm and peace"
Track length2:32
Aria: "Make thee clean, my heart, from sin"
Track length6:48
Recit / Chorus: "And Joseph took the body"
Track length2:51
Recit / Chorus: "And now the Lord to rest is laid"
Track length2:17
Chorus: "In Tears of Grief"
Track length7:08

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July 1994

The most striking thing is its lightness of touch. Tempos are brisk and businesslike, the choral tone buoyant and the orchestral playing nimble and discreet...English language recitatives can sound embarrassingly banal, but Robert Tear, all in all an excellent Evangelist, overcomes any potential pitfalls by the fluency of his delivery—clarity of diction is immaculate and the recitatives surge along with an overriding sense of purpose.
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