‎Bach: St. Matthew Passion by Thames Chamber Orchestra

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

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

8:34

Recitative: "When Jesus had completed all."

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

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"

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:26

Chorus: "Not upon the feast"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

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"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

0:32

Recitative: " When Jesus understood it"

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

1:36

Recitative: "My Master and my Lord"

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

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

0:40

Aria: "Break in grief"

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

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.

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

0:22

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

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

1:56

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

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

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"

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

1:27

Aria: "Jesus, Saviour, I am thine"

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

3:57

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

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

1:13

Chorus: "Receive me, my Redeemer"

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:03

Recit: "Simon Peter made answer"

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

1:15

Chorus: "Here would I stand beside Thee"

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:06

Recitative: " Then came Jesus with them"

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

2:16

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

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

2:12

Aria: "I would beside my Lord be watching"

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

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, Thames Chamber Orchestra, 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"

Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, 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

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

2:34

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

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

4:54

Recitative: "And behold, one of the others"

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

2:33

Chorus: "O man, thy grievous sin bemoan"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

7:05

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

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

4:23

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

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra

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"

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

1:22

Recitative: "He holds His peace"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Neil Jenkins

1:05

Aria: "Endure, Endure"

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

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

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

0:39

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

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

0:54

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

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

1:11

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

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

1:25

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

Sir David Willcocks, Alfreda Hodgson, Thames Chamber Orchestra, 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"

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

0:46

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

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

3:35

Recitative: "And they took counsel together"

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

2:18

Chorus: "Commit thy way to Jesus"

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:15

Recit,Chorus: "At that feast then"

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

2:32

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

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

0:55

Recit: "The governor answered."

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

0:15

Recit: "To all men Jesus good hath done"

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

1:17

Aria: "For love my Saviour now is dying"

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

5:13

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

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

2:24

Recit: "O Gracious God"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Alfreda Hodgson, Sir David Willcocks

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, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear

1:30

Chorus: "O sacred Head surrounded"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

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"

Sir David Willcocks, Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:42

Aria: "Come healing cross"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Roberts, Sir David Willcocks, 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"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks

0:15

Recit: "Ah, Golgotha! Unhappy Golgotha!"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Michael Dobson, Alfreda Hodgson, Lorraine Wood, 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"

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

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."

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

Sir David Willcocks, Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra

6:48

Recit/Chorus: "And Joseph took the body"

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

2:50

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

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

2:18

Chorus: "In tears of grief"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

7:10

Johann Sebastian Bach

Composer
Sir David Willcocks

Conductor
Bach Choir

Choir
Robert Tear

Tenor
John Shirley-Quirk

Baritone

Andrew Cornall

Producer
Ivor Atkins

Editing Engineer
Sir Edward Elgar

Editing Engineer
Kenneth Wilkinson

Balance Engineer
Simon Eadon

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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