Chorales are sung with an ideal sensitivity while the many turba scenes in the second part fully communicate the almost barbaric rage of the crowd. But the choral contribution is, as one would expect from this ensemble, wonderfully balanced, immaculately tuned and tremendously dramatic. First prelude, for two choirs to be performed for the glory of God, also noting in this connection that the 'first prelude'. John Passion live at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford in April 2021, on Good Friday to be. Chorales also exhibit a level of percussive diction that some will find overwrought or affected. Sir John Eliot Gardiner performed Johann Sebastian Bachs St. Read our masterpiece guide to Bach’s ‘St John Passion’ and watch John Eliot Gardiner’s production on DG Stage on Good Friday, 2 April 2021. This is, at least in part, due to some exemplary exacting diction from the choir: one need look no further than their initial entrance in the opening chorus, where the rolled ‘R” in the three “Herr” exclamations has an almost alarming ferocity. His Bach biography, entitled Music in the Castle of Heaven. But this latest performance has a thrilling immediacy and emotional rawness that very often eclipses the other two. His live recording of Bachs complete sacred cantatas won a Gramophone Special Achievement Award. And as with the second recording, this one-off performance has occasional rough edges not found in the first studio production. 1 day ago &0183 &32 John Eliot Gardiner, qui a fêté ses 80 ans le 20 avril dernier, sera à Montréal en concert, en prélude au Festival Bach, le 27 octobre prochain. Following Covid protocols, the singers and instruments are spread throughout the theater, and this spatial separation does occasionally result in artificially engineered balances. This latest recording was made on Good Friday April 2, 2021, in Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford.

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