‎Bach: St. Matthew Passion by Thames Chamber Orchestra

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

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

8:34

Recitative: "When Jesus had completed all."

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

0:51

Chorus: "O blessed Jesu."

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

0:54

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

Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:26

Chorus: "Not upon the feast"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, 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"

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

1:36

Recitative: "My Master and my Lord"

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

1:03

Aria: "Grief for sin"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Alfreda Hodgson

4:52

Recitative: "Then went one of the disciples"

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

0:40

Aria: "Break in grief"

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

5:20

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

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

0:13

Chorus: "Where, where, where wilt thou.

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

0:22

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

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

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

3:30

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

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

1:27

Aria: "Jesus, Saviour, I am thine"

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

3:57

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

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

1:13

Chorus: "Receive me, my Redeemer"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

1:03

Recit: "Simon Peter made answer"

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

1:15

Chorus: "Here would I stand beside Thee"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

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!"

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

2:12

Aria: "I would beside my Lord be watching"

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

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"

Stephen Roberts, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:08

Aria: "Gladly would I take upon me"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, 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

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

2:34

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

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

4:54

Recitative: "And behold, one of the others"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, 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"

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

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, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

0:57

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

Malcolm Arthur, Sir David Willcocks, Richard Jackson, Thames Chamber Orchestra, 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, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

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

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

0:39

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

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

0:54

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

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

1:11

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

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

1:25

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

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

6:44

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

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:09

Recit/Chorus: "Now when the morning came"

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

1:07

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

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

0:46

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

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

3:35

Recitative: "And they took counsel together"

Paul Hillier, Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, 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"

Robert Tear, Paul Hillier, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Dame Felicity Lott, Thames Chamber Orchestra, 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."

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

0:15

Recit: "To all men Jesus good hath done"

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

1:17

Aria: "For love my Saviour now is dying"

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

5:13

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

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

7:45

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

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

1:30

Chorus: "O sacred Head surrounded"

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

2:29

Recitative: "And after they had mocked at Him"

Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

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"

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

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, Alfreda Hodgson, Sir David Willcocks, Michael Dobson

1:47

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

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

3:48

Recit/Chorus: "Now from the sixth hour"

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

2:46

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

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

1:44

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

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

3:06

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

Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

2:31

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

Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

6:48

Recit/Chorus: "And Joseph took the body"

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

2:50

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

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

2:18

Chorus: "In tears of grief"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

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
Sir Edward Elgar

Editing Engineer
Ivor Atkins

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

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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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