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	Matthäuspassion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthäuspassion (English: St Matthew Passion or The Passion According to St Matthew), BWV 244, is a musical composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander (Christian Friedrich Henrici).
		Bach often uses madrgrilisms, as in “Buß und Reu,” where the flutes start playing a raindrop-like staccato as the alto sings of drops of her tears falling.
		The Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky revered Bach, and was, as he wrote in his diaries, particularly moved by the artistry and pathos of the St. Matthew Passion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._Matthew_Passion_(Bach) (1133 words)

	Bach Choir of Bethlehem
		Bach's Passions -- there are three of them -- are oratorios based on the gospel narrative of the Passion.
		Some versions of the Passion begin earlier in the week, with Christ's triumphant entry into the city of Jerusalem; while this sets up the dramatic turn of events, as the jubilant welcome of Christ is abandoned for his death, it is technically not part of the Passion story.
		The problem with this genre of Passion was that the same texture and timbre was used for everything, so individual characters in the story could not be developed or distinguished by the music.
	www.bach.org /bach101/passions/st_matthew_passion.html (833 words)

	The St. Matthew Passion - The Jewel of the Genre
		Bach thus began to look for a different kind of text and eventually came into contact with Picander (Christian Friedrich Henrici), a poet responsible for a large number of occasional sacred texts, many of which Bach used in his cantatas.
		Matthew Passion strides moves through a variety of keys while drawing on an extraordinary array of colours in the instrumental obbligato accompaniments of the arias.
		Matthew Passion remains the summit of the choral art alongside the Mass in B minor.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm7-7/passion-en.html (1291 words)

	BACH St Matthew Passion. Various - INKPOT
		Bach has also made a clever variation in the use of the chorus: in representing the ordinary townsfolk, the choruses were written in polyphonic fugues, and to develop the story, chorales/hymns were used.
		It is a well-known fact that Bach's use of a particular voice type adhered closely to symbolism - the soprano represented prayer, alto the Holy Spirit, tenor Christ's love and bass the voice of the Christian faith.
		The Klemperer St Matthew Passion is perhaps the deepest rendition available, in terms of the pathos expressed by the soloists and the choir.
	inkpot.com /classical/bachmatkc.html (2135 words)

	classical music - andante - taking bach's st. matthew passion back to its roots
		Matthew Passion is being marketed with buzzwords like "radical," "unique," and "controversial." For once, the marketers aren't exaggerating: this is the first commercial recording of Bach's largest-scale sacred work in which the soloists alone constitute the choir — as the evidence shows was Bach's practice in nearly all his vocal works.
		It shows the close kinship between Bach's "choral" style and his writing for solo voice; it also keeps the singers at the front of the soundstage, whether they are singing as soloists or as a choir.
		For them, the Passion setting was part of a church service, and they would regard the arias not as artistic masterpieces but as aids to their own meditation on the Gospel story unfolding before them.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=20895 (1186 words)

	St. Matthew Passion, notes by David Gordon
		It is worth noting that Bach was known in his time primarily as an organ virtuoso, not a composer: he published fewer than a dozen of his compositions.
		Matthew Passion combines freely composed poetry and hymn verses with chapters 26 and 27 of The Gospel According to Matthew.
		Bach's settings for their words can be far more elaborate than the recitatives for individual characters.
	www.spiritsound.com /matthew.html (952 words)

	JS Bach - St. Matthew Passion [RH]: Classical CD Reviews- June 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		But the Good Friday Passion was a special event in the musical calendar and prefixed by a music-free Lent, which would have given performers additional time to rehearse, so some commentators argue that these performances encompassed not just Bach's existing choir, but past pupils coming back to join them.
		The St. Matthew Passion is designed to be performed by double forces, eight soloists, double choir and double orchestra.
		If Bach was prone to fits of fantasy as he lay in bed at night after a taxing day rehearsing and performing the work with inadequate forces, then he may well have imagined this sort of well-upholstered performance based, perhaps, on forces at court.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2003/July03/Bach_MatthewPassion.htm (1447 words)

	The Passion according to St. Matthew BWV 244 [by Joshua Rifkin] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Bach subjected the Passion to a thorough-going revision, copying out an entire new score — the first in a series of copies of his major works that Bach made throughout his last years — and preparing a new set of performing parts, which further refined the readings of the score.
		Bach and the Prince had enjoyed an unusually warm relationship; the composer once represented Leopold “a gracious prince who both loved and understood music, and with whom I intended to finish my life.” Even after the departure from Köthen, Bach maintained friendly connections with Leopold’s court and continued to supply music for various ceremonies.
		Passion compositions in Bach's era usually elaborated the biblical rendering of Christ's betrayal, capture, and crucifixion with the addition of chorales and meditative recitatives and arias.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Articles/SMP[Rifkin].htm (3135 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : Music for Lent and Easter: St. Matthew Passion by Bach (Activity)
		Matthew Passion, by the glowing radiance with which he accompanies the words of his Lord.
		Bach, to whom the sense of God's forgiveness of man's sins, no matter how fl they might seem, is one of the solid pillars of faith, writes music that holds within it the essence of much that is great and singular in what we call Baroque music.
		This is but one of the instances in which Bach, taking advantage of music's power to penetrate, its adding of a dimension, a new art, to our longstanding knowledge of the Gospel story, intensifies each individual feeling that may move us as we contemplate anew the supreme sacrifice.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/activities/view.cfm?id=469 (1624 words)

	Performing Bach's St. Matthew Passion by Bernard D. Sherman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Matthew Passion is sometimes compared to an opera, and sometimes to a sermon.
		The St. Matthew's complex mix of time frames is part of what places it squarely outside the realm of Baroque opera.
		Bach may well have had a sense of the greatness of the St. Matthew Passion.
	homepages.kdsi.net /~sherman/StMatthew.htm (3380 words)

	BACH St Matthew Passion. Various/Bach-Collegium Stuttgart/Rilling (Hanssler) - INKPOT
		The St Matthew Passion, written in the year 1727, is the second of three (surviving) passions by J.S. Bach.
		In this "Great Passion", there are individual voices which 'play' the roles of Jesus, Judas, Pilate, among others, in the forms of dialogue, arias, recitatives and arioso, in a sense acting out the libretto while the Evangelist narrates the passion story.
		Nonetheless, Bach's St Matthew Passion contradicts theories that it is possibly a secular work, for the nature of its musical elaboration is clearly typical of the church style of his day.
	inkpot.com /classical/bachmathans.html (1398 words)

	Bach's St. Matthew Passion from Harnoncourt (by Donald Satz)
		Bach's St. Matthew Passion from Harnoncourt (by Donald Satz)
		Bach's St. Matthew Passion is considered the most monumental Passion ever composed.
		Bach uses a double chorus and orchestra which are integral parts of the work's architecture and enhances its majestic nature.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Articles/SMP-Satz.htm (7332 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bach : St Matthew Passion: Music: Barbara Bonney,English Baroque Soloists,John Eliot Gardiner,Anthony ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Bach - St Matthew Passion ~ Otto Klemperer
		Gardiner's approach to Bach is ruthlessly efficient, ferrari like tempi often evaporate any hint of spirituality and the perfect, faultless attack of the choir adds to the generally chilly aura of this set.
		Bach should be passionate, not silky, and Gardiner is good at that.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Bach-Matthew-Passion-Barbara-Bonney/dp/B0000057DG (1320 words)

	King's Music - Bach's St. Matthew Passion
		Bach began a revision of the work around 1739, but only got as far as no. 10, so after that the ‘standard’ version reverts to the original 1724 text.
		Altnickol must have made his copy of the St Matthew Passion after 1744, when he arrived in Leipzig to study at the University and became drawn into Bach’s circle, though it is likely that he had in front of him a source that was considerably earlier than the 1736 score.
		A distinctive characteristic of the Matthew Passion is the lay-out for two ensembles; so it seems a bit perverse in a no-expenses-spared recording to ignore that, especially since the Gardiner disc has such clear stero spacing.
	www.kings-music.co.uk /matt_pass.htm (2006 words)

	Bach's St. Matthew Passion
		Helmuth Rilling is to conduct the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Carnegie Hall Festival Chorus, James Taylor (tenor--Evangelist), Klaus Haeger (bass--Jesus), Sibylla Rubens (soprano), Ingeborg Danz (mezzo-soprano), and Michael Nagy (bass).
		Matthew Passion is an oratorio with recitatives, solo arias, and chorales.
		The text is based on the account of the passion and death of Jesus in the Gospel of Saint Matthew.
	www.geocities.com /jrpsong/smp.html (574 words)

	St Matthew Passion - Johann Sebastian Bach
		The St Matthew Passion is written in two parts, between which the sermon intervened in olden times.
		One of them, which Bach also liberally used in his "Christmas Oratorio," beginning "Acknowledge me, my Keeper," appears five times in the progress of the work, forming the keynote of the church sentiment, and differently harmonized on each occasion.
		Drums and brass instruments are not used, the sentiment of the work, in Bach's estimation, not being fitted with them, sweetness and expressiveness of tone rather than power being required.
	www.musicwithease.com /bach-st-matthew-passion.html (859 words)

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		Bach: St Matthew Passion / Gardiner, Rolfe Johnson, et al
		Bach: St Matthew Passion / McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort
		Bach: Arias from St. Matthew Passion / Ameling, et al
	www.shopping.com /xGS-Bach_St_Matthew_Passion (324 words)

	St. Matthew Passion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthew Passions – a passion (story of the last days of Christ) based on the Gospel of Matthew.
		A translated title of Johann Sebastian Bach's Matthäuspassion (1727 or 1729)
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._Matthew_Passion (98 words)

	BACH: ST MATTHEW PASSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		One of the most performed and recorded of Bach’s major works, the St. Matthew Passion has been a focal point of concert seasons and festivals around the world for over 150 years.
		Bach set the text, based on two chapters from the Gospel of St. Matthew, using a large ensemble of two choruses, soloists, and two orchestras.
		Although the St. Matthew Passion is often held to be the apotheosis of Lutheran church music, this magnificent oratorio reaches out to its audiences in the language, form and spirit of opera.
	www.midi-classics.com /p1813.htm (311 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bach - St Matthew Passion: Music: Otto Klemperer,Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf,Helen Watts,Sir Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Bach : St Matthew Passion ~ Barbara Bonney
		Bach As Bach Abd Not An Academic Exercise, 17 Mar 2004
		In Klemperer's hands the Saint Matthew Passion is not an academic exercise but a deeply felt human drama.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Bach-Matthew-Passion-Otto-Klemperer/dp/B000058UST (726 words)

	BACH: St. Matthew Passion, excerpts - Bach Collegium Japan/ Masaaki Suzuki/ Gerd Turk, tenor/ Pter Kooij, bass/Nancy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		BACH: St. Matthew Passion, excerpts - Bach Collegium Japan/ Masaaki Suzuki/ Gerd Turk, tenor/ Pter Kooij, bass/Nancy Argenta, soprano/ Robin Blaze, counter-tenor/ Makoto Sakurada, tenor/ Chiyuki Urano, bass.
		This is essential Bach laid bare in all of its simplicity and magnificence.
		It is a progressive linear journey through what is arguably Bach’s magnum opus, capturing the totality of the work.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1108 (411 words)

	Bach's St. Matthew Passion: from Minnesota Public Radio Music
		Matthew Passion in the 1720s, the passion, as a musical form, had grown to allow orchestra, choirs, and non-scriptural choruses and arias.
		But in Bach's hands, the effect that the Passion gives is not one of a brilliant collage, but a single, sustained, somber meditation—appropriate for a work that was first performed as part of a church service.
		Like Bach, he lived in Leipzig, and it is believed that he and Bach worked closely together on the text.
	music.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/0104_passion/index.shtml (5656 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The reading list that serves as the core of the St. John's College curriculum had its beginnings at Columbia College, at the University of Chicago, and at the University of Virginia.
		The chronological order in which the books are read is primarily a matter of convenience and intelligibility; it does not imply a historical approach to the subject matter.
		The St. John's curriculum seeks to convey to students an understanding of the fundamental problems that human beings have to face today and at all times.
	www.stjohnscollege.edu /asp/main.aspx?page=1302 (369 words)

	MPR Music - The St. John Passion
		What they heard—in addition to a sermon—was a retelling of the Passion story as recounted in the book of John, set to music by their recently hired cantor, or city musical director, Johann Sebastian Bach.
		In length and musical scope, the St. John Passion is no small work, but it has often been overshadowed by the even more imposing St. Matthew Passion that Bach produced a few years later.
		Our recording of the St. John Passion is a vivid, highly praised account by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, led by John Eliot Gardiner.
	music.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/0404_stjohnpassion (461 words)

	eBay - passion bach st ..., CDs, Records items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		BACH: ST MATTHEW and ST JOHN PASSIONS - KARL RICHTER vgc
		Bach: St Matthew Passion lp Angels Otto Klemperer
		Bach Favourite Arias and Choruses Oratorio St M passion
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=passion+bach+st+...&krd=1 (337 words)

	Amazon.com: Bach: St. Matthew Passion: Music: Leonard Bernstein,William Wildermann,Carl Stern,Collegiate Chorale,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Matthew Passion--like that of his Bach concertos with Glenn Gould and others--is a moving document of musical and emotional empathy.
		"Saint Matthew's Passion" represents the culmination of lutheran tradition of liturgical passions and it certainly demonstrates the height of Bach's compositional mastery and the profundity of his musical expression.
		Bach: St Matthew Passion (Matthäus-Passion) ~ Johann Sebastian Bach
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000I0W3?v=glance (2146 words)

	St. Matthew Passion by Sir Georg Solti at jsbach.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Matthew Passion by Sir Georg Solti at jsbach.org
		With him the Passion is less devotional than celebratory.
		With speeds on the fast side, resilient rhythms and bright choral tone he brings it closer than usual to the St.John Passion, with its message of heavenly joy.
	www.jsbach.org /soltistmatthewpassion.html (224 words)

	Cleveland Seniors \| Cleveland Orchestra \| St Matthew's Passion \| Bach
		The Cleveland Orchestra with chorus and soloists presented Bach's St. Matthew Passion on three successive evenings last week, in advance of both Passover and Easter.
		With great clarity, he explains the many numerical references to be found in Bach's work, as well as the significance of key signatures, vocal range and instrumental selection.
		And, if you were unable to hear the the concert or broadcast version of it from last week, the St. Matthew Passion will be re-broadcast in its entirety on WCLV and WCLV.com this Friday evening, April 14, at 8 pm.
	www.clevelandseniors.com /entertainment/cleveorch406.htm (280 words)

	Bach: St Matthew Passion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		If one criticism might be made of Saturday's English-lanuage version of Bach's Passion according to St Matthew, it is this: the applause at the end was started a little sooner than seemed fitting, or than conductor Paul Hale would have wished.
		The choir, augmented by choristers of St Mary's, could almost have been taken for a professional ensemble.
		And from the opening fantasia to the final sarabande, Bach's matchless choruses were finely controlled.
	www.freenetpages.co.uk /hp/jackyv/review_bach_mattpassion.htm (198 words)

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