‎Bach: St. Matthew Passion by Sir David Willcocks

Chorus: "Come, ye daughters, share my mourning"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

8:34

Recitative: "When Jesus had completed all."

Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, John Shirley-Quirk

0:51

Chorus: "O blessed Jesu."

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:54

Recitative: "At that time there assembled the chief priests"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks

0:26

Chorus: "Not upon the feast"

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:17

Recitative:"Now when Jesus was in Bethany"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks

0:34

Chorus: "To what purpose is this waste"

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

0:32

Recitative: " When Jesus understood it"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Sir David Willcocks

1:36

Recitative: "My Master and my Lord"

Sir David Willcocks, Alfreda Hodgson, Richard Adeney, Richard Dobson, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:03

Aria: "Grief for sin"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Alfreda Hodgson

4:52

Recitative: "Then went one of the disciples"

Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, John Shirley-Quirk

0:40

Aria: "Break in grief"

William Bennett, Alexa Turpin, Sir David Willcocks, Dame Felicity Lott, Thames Chamber Orchestra

5:20

Recitative: "Now on the first day of the unleavened bread"

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, John Shirley-Quirk

0:13

Chorus: "Where, where, where wilt thou.

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:22

Recit/Chorus: "He said, Go to one in the city yonder"

Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, John Shirley-Quirk

1:56

Chorus: "Tis I, whose sins have bound thee."

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

0:56

Recitative: "He answered them and said"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk

3:30

Recitative: "Although our eyes with tears o'erflow"

Lorraine Wood, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Michael Dobson, Dame Felicity Lott, Sir David Willcocks

1:27

Aria: "Jesus, Saviour, I am thine"

Lorraine Wood, Michael Dobson, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Dame Felicity Lott

3:57

Recit: "And after they had sung a hymn together"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk, Sir David Willcocks

1:13

Chorus: "Receive me, my Redeemer"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

1:03

Recit: "Simon Peter made answer"

Robert Tear, Hugh Davies, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, John Shirley-Quirk

1:15

Chorus: "Here would I stand beside Thee"

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

1:06

Recitative: " Then came Jesus with them"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, John Shirley-Quirk, Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear

2:16

Recitative: "O grief! how throbs this heavy laden breast!"

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Neil Jenkins

2:12

Aria: "I would beside my Lord be watching"

Michael Dobson, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Neil Jenkins

5:37

Recit: "And he went away"

Sir David Willcocks, John Shirley-Quirk, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear

0:50

Recit: "The Saviour, low before His father bending"

Sir David Willcocks, Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:08

Aria: "Gladly would I take upon me"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Roberts

4:25

Recitative: "And he came to his disciples"

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, John Shirley-Quirk

1:30

Chorale: "O Father, let thy will be done"

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

1:15

Recitative: "And he came again and found them sleeping

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, John King, Thames Chamber Orchestra, John Shirley-Quirk

2:34

Duet:Chorus: "Behold, my Saviour now is taken"

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Dame Felicity Lott, Alfreda Hodgson, Thames Chamber Orchestra

4:54

Recitative: "And behold, one of the others"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, John Shirley-Quirk

2:33

Chorus: "O man, thy grievous sin bemoan"

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

7:05

Aria/Chorus: "Ah! now is my Saviour gone"

Sir David Willcocks, Alfreda Hodgson, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

4:23

Recit: "And they that had laid hold on Jesus"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear

1:02

Chorus: "How falsely doth the world accuse"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

0:57

Recitative: "Yea, though many lying witnesses came forward"

Malcolm Arthur, Michael Pierce, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Richard Jackson

1:22

Recitative: "He holds His peace"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Neil Jenkins, Sir David Willcocks

1:05

Aria: "Endure, Endure"

Charles Tunnell, Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

3:45

Recit/Chorus: "And the high priest answered

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Richard Jackson, John Shirley-Quirk, Robert Tear, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

1:43

Recit/Chorus: "And then with one accord they did spit

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks

0:39

Chorus: "O Lord, who dares to smite Thee"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

0:54

Recit/Chorus: "Simon Peter sat outside in the court"

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Catherine Rogers, Hugh Davies, Rebecca Moseley-Morgan

1:11

Recit: "And then began he to curse and to swear"

Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, John Shirley-Quirk

1:25

Aria: "Have mercy, Lord, have mercy, Lord, on me"

John Bacon, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Alfreda Hodgson

6:44

Chorus: "Lamb of God, I fall before Thee"

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:09

Recit/Chorus: "Now when the morning came"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, John King, Bach Choir, John Shirley-Quirk

1:07

Recit: "And he cast the silver pieces down in the temple"

Malcolm Arthur, Sir David Willcocks, Michael Pierce, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear

0:46

Aria: "Give, O give me back my Lord"

Sir David Willcocks, Roger Garland, Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra

3:35

Recitative: "And they took counsel together"

Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks, Paul Hillier, Thames Chamber Orchestra, John Shirley-Quirk

2:18

Chorus: "Commit thy way to Jesus"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

1:15

Recit,Chorus: "At that feast then"

Paul Hillier, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Dame Felicity Lott, John Shirley-Quirk, Thames Chamber Orchestra

2:32

Chorus: "O wondrous love, that suffers this correction"

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

0:55

Recit: "The governor answered."

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Paul Hillier

0:15

Recit: "To all men Jesus good hath done"

Sir David Willcocks, Lorraine Wood, Michael Dobson, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Dame Felicity Lott

1:17

Aria: "For love my Saviour now is dying"

Richard Adeney, Dame Felicity Lott, Lorraine Wood, Michael Dobson, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

5:13

Recit/Chorus: "But they cried out the more"

Robert Tear, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, John Shirley-Quirk

2:24

Recit: "O Gracious God"

Alfreda Hodgson, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:19

Aria: "If my tears be unavailing"

Alfreda Hodgson, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

7:45

Recit,Chorus: "And then did the soldiers."

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Robert Tear

1:30

Chorus: "O sacred Head surrounded"

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

2:29

Recitative: "And after they had mocked at Him"

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:28

Recitative: "In truth, to bear the Cross"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Stephen Roberts

0:42

Aria: "Come healing cross"

Sir David Willcocks, Stephen Roberts, Adam Skeaping, Thames Chamber Orchestra

7:09

Recit/Chorus: "And when they came unto the place"

Robert Tear, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

3:52

Recit: "The same was cast in His teeth by the robbers"

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:15

Recit: "Ah, Golgotha! Unhappy Golgotha!"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Alfreda Hodgson, Sir David Willcocks, Lorraine Wood, Michael Dobson

1:47

Aria/Chorus: "See ye! See the Saviour's outstretched hands!

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Alfreda Hodgson

3:48

Recit/Chorus: "Now from the sixth hour"

Bach Choir, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, John Shirley-Quirk

2:46

Chorus: "Be near me, Lord, when dying"

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:44

Recit/Chorus: "And then, behold, the veil."

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

3:06

Recit: "At evening, hour of calm and peace"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Stephen Roberts

2:31

Aria: "Make thee clean, my heart, from sin"

Sir David Willcocks, Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra

6:48

Recit/Chorus: "And Joseph took the body"

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Paul Hillier, Bach Choir

2:50

Recit/Chorus: "And now the Lord to rest is laid"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Neil Jenkins, Alfreda Hodgson, Stephen Roberts, Dame Felicity Lott, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

2:18

Chorus: "In tears of grief"

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

7:10

Johann Sebastian Bach

Composer
Sir David Willcocks

Conductor
Bach Choir

Choir
Robert Tear

Tenor
John Shirley-Quirk

Baritone

Andrew Cornall

Producer
Simon Eadon

Engineer
Sir Edward Elgar

Editing Engineer
Ivor Atkins

Editing Engineer
Kenneth Wilkinson

Balance Engineer
Sir David Willcocks

Liner Notes
Chris Christodoulou

Photography
Darren Rumney

Creative Director
Eric Gill

Cover Art
Stanley Webb

Liner Notes

Bach: St. Matthew Passion

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Sir David Willcocks

Bach Choir

Robert Tear

John Shirley-Quirk

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Bach: St. Matthew Passion

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