‎Bach: St. Matthew Passion by Sir David Willcocks

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

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

8:34

Recitative: "When Jesus had completed all."

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

0:51

Chorus: "O blessed Jesu."

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

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, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

0:17

Recitative:"Now when Jesus was in Bethany"

Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

0:34

Chorus: "To what purpose is this waste"

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:32

Recitative: " When Jesus understood it"

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

1:36

Recitative: "My Master and my Lord"

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

1:03

Aria: "Grief for sin"

Sir David Willcocks, Alfreda Hodgson, Thames Chamber Orchestra

4:52

Recitative: "Then went one of the disciples"

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

0:40

Aria: "Break in grief"

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

5:20

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

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

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

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"

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

3:30

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

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

1:27

Aria: "Jesus, Saviour, I am thine"

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

3:57

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

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

1:13

Chorus: "Receive me, my Redeemer"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

1:03

Recit: "Simon Peter made answer"

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

1:15

Chorus: "Here would I stand beside Thee"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

1:06

Recitative: " Then came Jesus with them"

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

2:16

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

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

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"

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

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"

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:15

Recitative: "And he came again and found them sleeping

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

2:34

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

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

4:54

Recitative: "And behold, one of the others"

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

2:33

Chorus: "O man, thy grievous sin bemoan"

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

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"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear

1:02

Chorus: "How falsely doth the world accuse"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

0:57

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

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

3:45

Recit/Chorus: "And the high priest answered

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

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"

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

1:11

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

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

1:25

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

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

6:44

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

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

1:09

Recit/Chorus: "Now when the morning came"

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

1:07

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

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

0:46

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

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

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"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

1:15

Recit,Chorus: "At that feast then"

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

2:32

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

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

0:55

Recit: "The governor answered."

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

0:15

Recit: "To all men Jesus good hath done"

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

1:17

Aria: "For love my Saviour now is dying"

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

5:13

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

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

2:24

Recit: "O Gracious God"

Alfreda Hodgson, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

1:19

Aria: "If my tears be unavailing"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Alfreda Hodgson

7:45

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

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

1:30

Chorus: "O sacred Head surrounded"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

2:29

Recitative: "And after they had mocked at Him"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear

1:28

Recitative: "In truth, to bear the Cross"

Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

0:42

Aria: "Come healing cross"

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

7:09

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

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

3:52

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

Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

0:15

Recit: "Ah, Golgotha! Unhappy Golgotha!"

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

1:47

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

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

3:48

Recit/Chorus: "Now from the sixth hour"

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

2:46

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

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:44

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

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

3:06

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

Sir David Willcocks, Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra

2:31

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

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Roberts, Sir David Willcocks

6:48

Recit/Chorus: "And Joseph took the body"

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

2:50

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

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

2:18

Chorus: "In tears of grief"

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, 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
Kenneth Wilkinson

Balance Engineer
Ivor Atkins

Editing Engineer
Simon Eadon

Engineer
Sir Edward Elgar

Editing Engineer
Sir David Willcocks

Liner Notes
Darren Rumney

Creative Director
Eric Gill

Cover Art
Stanley Webb

Liner Notes
Chris Christodoulou

Photography

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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