Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
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J. S. BACH
Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
Lothar Odinius, Christian Immler, Ditte Andersen, David Hansen, Valerio Contaldo / Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
[ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 22 April 2017
The foundations of Marc Minkowski's career lie in Baroque music, and he has enjoyed a long relationship with Warner Classics, but this Johannes-Passion (St John Passion) is his first Bach for the label. The work's terse drama - here presented through just nine singers - is ideally suited to both his scrupulous musicianship and his keen sense of theatre. The French conductor describes Bach's great masterpieces as "a journey you have to prepare for meticulously, over a long period of time … You come back from it like an explorer comes back from Everest or the Moon - transformed."
"Minkowski goes for minimalism, if not hardline one-voice-to-a-part "authenticity", sharing out the solos and choruses between eight singers. His Evangelist, Lothar Odinius, is outstanding, delivering the text with clarity and an emotional angst that burns itself onto the memory." Sunday Times
