2023 Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir & Ton Koopman
“Solo” Bach
Artists
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir
Hana Blazikova, sopran
Maarten Engeltjes, counter tenor
Tilman Lichdi, tenor
Klaus Mertens, bass
Ton Koopman, conductor
Program
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Johannes-Passion, BWV 245 (1724)
Bach and the Most Intimate Passion
When he arrived in Leipzig in 1723, Bach set himself the task of completely renewing the repertoire that was being heard in the city’s churches. The fruit of this effort are his cantata cycles –the culmination of an entire tradition that started with the very same Luther’s reform– and his passions, which are the summit of Western art. On Good Friday of 1724 Bach presented the first of them, written on the Gospel of Saint John, a passion not as monumental as the one written three years later on Saint Matthew, but with a dazzling dramatic, doctrinal and musical cohesion, as it has been remarked by many specialists, who take it as a work of worship. Ton Koopman, one of the greatest Bachian interpreters of our days, comes with his well-trained hosts from Amsterdam to penetrate his most intimate secrets.
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