800 years of St Thomas’s Boys Choir: to celebrate this significant anniversary. Rondeau Production releases a limited special edition of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion – and at a discounted price.

Over 280 years after its first performance, Bach’s St Matthew Passion still exerts an unbroken fascination. The present recording was produced at the work’s historical home, and documents a long standing performance tradition the Thomanerchor Leipzig (St Thomas’s Boys Choir and the Gewandhausorchester MGewandhaus Orchestra) regularly perform one of Bach’s magnificent passion settings at St Thomas Leipzig on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday With this recording. The early version of the famous St Matthew Passion is now available on CD for the first time. The astounding soloists, the Thomanerchor Leipzig St Thomas’s Boys Choir) with its superior, unmistakable sound, and the Gewandhausorchester (Gewandhaus Orchestra) and its exquisite instrumental soloists present the sufferings and death of Jesus of Nazareth in a performance of seldom heard dramatic impetus. This production under the direction of the present cantor at St Thomas, Georg Christoph Biller, combines a profoundly religious message with exceptional musical mastery.

Artists

Philipp Goldmann (baritone), Konrad Waschnewski (bass), Richard Mauersberger (soprano), Stefan Kahle (alto), Ute Selbig (soprano), Thomas Laske (bass), Ringo Wegrich (bass), Britta Schwarz (alto), Matthias Weichert (bass), Martin Petzold (tenor)

Gewandhaus Orchestra, St. Thomas Boys' Choir, Leipzig, Georg Christoph Biller