The Bach Choir of Bethlehem & Christopher Jackson - Mendelssohn & Bach: Matthäus-Passion (2024)
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Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: Analekta
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 465 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 290 Mb | 02:05:19
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: Analekta
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.