Johann
Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Program notes by Michael Steinberg (Bach Cantatas)
Program notes by Donald Teeters (Boston Cecilia)
Program notes by Audrey Wong & Norm Proctor (Bach Cantatas)
Article on the genesis of the St. John Passion by Pieter Dirksen (Dirksen’s Web site)
Program notes by Nick Jones, plus German text and literal translation (Atlanta Symphony)
German text, with instrumentation for each movement (Walter Bischof, University of Alberta)
German text with interlinear English translation (literal) (Francis Browne, Bach Cantatas)
German text with side-by-side English translation (literal) (San Francisco Bach Choir)
English translation (poetic) (Philip Ambrose, University of Vermont)
CD
Recordings
Historically
informed (following Baroque performance
practice):
John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Archiv Produktion (1986)
Recording info. at Amazon.com
Recording info. at Deutsche Grammophon (MP3 downloads of album and tracks also available for purchase)
Ton Koopman, Netherlands Bach Society Choir, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Erato (1993)
Recording info. at Amazon.com
Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, BIS (1998)
Recording info. at Amazon.com
Recording info. at BIS
Modern
(“traditional”) (not informed by modern scholarship
on Baroque performance practice):
Michel Corboz, Lausanne Vocal Ensemble & Chamber Orchestra, Erato (1977) Recording info. at Amazon.com
Karl Forster, St. Hedwig’s Cathedral Choir, Berlin Philharmonic, EMI Classics (1961)
Recording info. at Amazon.com
Karl Richter, Munich Bach Choir & Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon (1964)
Recording info. at Amazon.com (MP3 downloads of album and tracks also available for purchase)
Recording info. at Deutsche Grammophon (MP3 downloads of album and tracks also available for purchase)
Hans-Joachim Rotzsch, St. Thomas Boys Choir, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, RCA Victor Europe (1975-76)
Recording info. at Amazon.com
CD Reviews
by Kirk McElhearn at MusicWeb International (Suzuki)
by Teri Noel Towe at Bach Cantata (critical discography of recordings up to 1989)
Composer’s Biography
BaroqueMusic.org
Web site
Grove (on Kunst der Fuge)
Timothy
A. Smith’s Web site
Note-Learning Aids
CyberBass: MIDI tutorial — hear your vocal part on one speaker and the rest of the choral parts on the other speaker.