The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Christopher Jackson, Bach Festival Orchestra - Mendelssohn & Bach: Matthäus-Passion (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Mendelssohn): Chorus with Chorale "Kommt ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen"
02. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Da Jesus diese Rede vollendet hatte"
03. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Mendelssohn): Chorale. "Herzliebster Jesu"
04. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Da versammelten sich die Hohenpriester"
05. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Recitative. "Du lieber Heiland du"
06. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Aria. "Buß und Reu"
07. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Da ging hin der Zwölfen einer"
08. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Aria. "Blute nur"
09. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Aber am ersten Tage"
10. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Chorale. "Ich bin"s, ich sollte büßen"
11. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Er antwortete und sprach"
12. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Chorale. "Erkenne mich, mein Hüter"
13. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Petrus aber antwortete"
14. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Recitative. "O Schmerz" - "Was ist die Ursach aller dieser Plagen"
15. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Aria. "Ich will bei meinem Jesu wachen" - "So schlafen unsre Sünden ein"
16. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Und ging hin ein wenig"
17. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Chorale. "Was mein Gott will, das g"scheh allzeit"
18. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. " Und er kam und fand sie aber schlafend"
19. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Duet with Chorus. "So ist mein Jesus nun gefangen" - "Laßt ihn, haltet, bindet nicht!"
20. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Und siehe, einer aus denen, die mit Jesu waren"
21. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Chorus with Chorale. "O Mensch bewein dein Sünde groß"
22. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244: Aria with Chorus. "Ach, nun ist mein Jesus hin" - "Wo ist denn dein Freund hingegangen"
23. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. " Die aber Jesum gegriffen hatten"
24. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Chorale. "Wer hat dich so geschlagen"
25. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Petrus aber sass draussen im Palast"
26. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Aria. "Erbarme dich"
27. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. " Des Morgens aber hielten alle Hohepriester"
28. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Aria. "Gebt mir meinen Jesum wieder"
29. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Sie hielten aber einen Rat"
30. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Recitative. "Er hat uns allen wohlgetan"
31. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Aria. "Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben
32. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Sie schrieen aber noch mehr"
33. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Recitative. "Erbarm es Gott"
34. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Da nahmen die Kriegsknechte"
35. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Chorale. "O Haupt, voll Blut und Wunden"
36. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Und da sie ihn verspottet hatten"
37. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Recitative. "Ach Golgatha"
38. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Und von der sechsten Stunde"
39. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Chorale. "Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden"
40. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Und siehe da"
41. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Recitative. "Am Abend da es kühle war"
42. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Aria. "Mache dich, mein Herze, rein"
43. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Evangelium. "Und Joseph nahm den Leib"
44. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Recitative with Choir. "Nun ist der Herr zur Ruh gebracht" - "Mein Jesu, gute Nacht"
45. Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1841 Version by Felix Mendelssohn): Chorus. "Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder"

For nearly 74 years from the death of J.S. Bach in 1750 to Mendelssohn’s fifteenth birthday in 1824 the Matthäus Passion had all but disappeared. Young Mendelssohn’s prized birthday gift - a bespoke a copy of the Passion - was to change music history when five years later he mounted its first performance in the nineteenth century in Berlin.

Today it is inconceivable to imagine music without Bach, but in the 1820s his music had been relegated to no more than the exercise-book for students of counterpoint. Turning often to Bach’s music after 1829, Mendelssohn performed the Passion again in Leipzig in 1841. Now in a romantic era with a symphonic sized orchestra and choir, he remodelled both the role of the Evangelist and soloists, compacting the Passion’s length by some 30 percent.

After his death in 1847 Mendelssohn’s ‘edition’ of the Passion lay fallow with his heirs in London, his grandson eventually bequeathing it to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. A first complete reconstruction of Mendelssohn’s material by Malcolm Bruno and Caroline Ritchie is published in December 2023 by Bärenreiter Verlag, and the first recording by the Bach Choir of Bethlehem to be released in March 2024 on the Analekta label.

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