FULL MATTHÄUS-PASSION (Bach & Mendelssohn) Budapest 2015 Emőke Baráth, Eszter Balogh, Bernhard Berchtold, Zoltán Megyesi, Christoph Pohl, Krisztián Cser
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Matthäus-Passion or St Matthew Passion
- Composer: Bach Johann Sebastian, Mendelssohn Felix
- Libretto: Picander, It sets chapters 26 and 27 of the Gospel of Matthew (in the Luther Bible)
- Venue & Opera Company: Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, müpa, Budapest, Hungary
- Recorded: January 22, 2015
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Emőke Baráth, Eszter Balogh, Bernhard Berchtold, Zoltán Megyesi, Christoph Pohl, Krisztián Cser
- Conductor: György Vashegyi
- Orchestra: Orfeo Orchestra
- Chorus: Purcell Choir
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- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: müpa
- Date Published: 2015
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, othersubs
- Video Recording from: müpa FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The renaissance of Baroque music reached its zenith in Mendelssohn’s time, when the Romantic composer and conductor presented Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Berlin a century after its original composition. Less well known is that he revived the work again on Palm Sunday 1841 in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, where Bach once worked as Kapellmeister. This is the version that will now be heard in Hungary for the first time on period instruments, under the baton of György Vashegyi, the country’s leading conductor of period performance. What makes the undertaking even more special is that Mendelssohn’s interpretation of Bach’s work will come to life in a performance by two world-class ensembles, the Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra.