‎Bach: St. Matthew Passion by Bach Choir

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

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

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."

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:54

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

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:26

Chorus: "Not upon the feast"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

0:17

Recitative:"Now when Jesus was in Bethany"

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:34

Chorus: "To what purpose is this waste"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

0:32

Recitative: " When Jesus understood it"

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

1:36

Recitative: "My Master and my Lord"

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

1:03

Aria: "Grief for sin"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Alfreda Hodgson

4:52

Recitative: "Then went one of the disciples"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks, 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"

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

0:13

Chorus: "Where, where, where wilt thou.

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

0:22

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

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

1:56

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

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

0:56

Recitative: "He answered them and said"

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

3:30

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

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

1:27

Aria: "Jesus, Saviour, I am thine"

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

3:57

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

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

1:13

Chorus: "Receive me, my Redeemer"

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

1:03

Recit: "Simon Peter made answer"

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

1:15

Chorus: "Here would I stand beside Thee"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

1:06

Recitative: " Then came Jesus with them"

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

2:16

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

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

2:12

Aria: "I would beside my Lord be watching"

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

5:37

Recit: "And he went away"

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

0:50

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

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Roberts, Sir David Willcocks

1:08

Aria: "Gladly would I take upon me"

Stephen Roberts, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

4:25

Recitative: "And he came to his disciples"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks, 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

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

2:34

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

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

4:54

Recitative: "And behold, one of the others"

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

2:33

Chorus: "O man, thy grievous sin bemoan"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

7:05

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

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

4:23

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

Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

1:02

Chorus: "How falsely doth the world accuse"

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:57

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

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

1:22

Recitative: "He holds His peace"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Neil Jenkins, Sir David Willcocks

1:05

Aria: "Endure, Endure"

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

3:45

Recit/Chorus: "And the high priest answered

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

1:43

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

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

0:39

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

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:54

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

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

1:11

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

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

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

1:09

Recit/Chorus: "Now when the morning came"

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

1:07

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

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

0:46

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

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

3:35

Recitative: "And they took counsel together"

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

2:18

Chorus: "Commit thy way to Jesus"

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

1:15

Recit,Chorus: "At that feast then"

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

2:32

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

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

0:55

Recit: "The governor answered."

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

0:15

Recit: "To all men Jesus good hath done"

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

1:17

Aria: "For love my Saviour now is dying"

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

5:13

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

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

2:24

Recit: "O Gracious God"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Alfreda Hodgson

1:19

Aria: "If my tears be unavailing"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Alfreda Hodgson

7:45

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

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

1:30

Chorus: "O sacred Head surrounded"

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

2:29

Recitative: "And after they had mocked at Him"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear

1:28

Recitative: "In truth, to bear the Cross"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Stephen Roberts

0:42

Aria: "Come healing cross"

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

7:09

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

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

3:52

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

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear

0:15

Recit: "Ah, Golgotha! Unhappy Golgotha!"

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

1:47

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

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

3:48

Recit/Chorus: "Now from the sixth hour"

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

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

3:06

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

Stephen Roberts, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

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, Paul Hillier, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

2:50

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

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

2:18

Chorus: "In tears of grief"

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

7:10

Johann Sebastian Bach

Composer
Bach Choir

Choir
Sir David Willcocks

Conductor
Robert Tear

Tenor
John Shirley-Quirk

Baritone

Andrew Cornall

Producer
Simon Eadon

Engineer
Kenneth Wilkinson

Balance Engineer
Ivor Atkins

Editing Engineer
Sir Edward Elgar

Editing 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

RECORD LABEL

Johann Sebastian Bach

Bach Choir

Sir David Willcocks

Robert Tear

John Shirley-Quirk

Production

Bach: St. Matthew Passion

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On This Album

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