Prom 51: Bach Day - St John Passion
From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Christopher Cook. John Eliot Gardiner conducts Bach's St John Passion, with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Christopher Cook.
John Eliot Gardiner conducts Bach's dramatic and moving Passiontide oratorio based on the Gospel according to St John. It focuses on the emotional and political drama of the arrest, trial and execution of Jesus - betrayed by Judas, abandoned by his disciples, flogged then defended by the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, but finally condemned at the behest of the angry mob.
Evangelist ...... Mark Padmore (tenor)
Christus ...... Peter Harvey (baritone)
Katharine Fuge (soprano)
Robin Blaze (countertenor)
Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)
Jeremy Budd (tenor)
Matthew Brook (bass)
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
Bach: St John Passion (sung in German).
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