‎Bach: St. Matthew Passion by Sir David Willcocks

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

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

8:34

Recitative: "When Jesus had completed all."

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

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, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear

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, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear

0:34

Chorus: "To what purpose is this waste"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

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"

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

1:03

Aria: "Grief for sin"

Sir David Willcocks, Alfreda Hodgson, Thames Chamber Orchestra

4:52

Recitative: "Then went one of the disciples"

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

0:40

Aria: "Break in grief"

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

5:20

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

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

0:13

Chorus: "Where, where, where wilt thou.

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

0:22

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

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

3:30

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

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

1:27

Aria: "Jesus, Saviour, I am thine"

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

3:57

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

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

1:13

Chorus: "Receive me, my Redeemer"

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:03

Recit: "Simon Peter made answer"

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

1:15

Chorus: "Here would I stand beside Thee"

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:06

Recitative: " Then came Jesus with them"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, 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"

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

5:37

Recit: "And he went away"

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

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"

Sir David Willcocks, Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra

4:25

Recitative: "And he came to his disciples"

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

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

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

2:34

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

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

4:54

Recitative: "And behold, one of the others"

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

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, Bach Choir, Alfreda Hodgson, Thames Chamber Orchestra

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, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:57

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

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

1:22

Recitative: "He holds His peace"

Neil Jenkins, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:05

Aria: "Endure, Endure"

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

3:45

Recit/Chorus: "And the high priest answered

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

1:43

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

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

0:39

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

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:54

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

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

1:11

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

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

1:25

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

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

6:44

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

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

1:09

Recit/Chorus: "Now when the morning came"

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

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"

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

3:35

Recitative: "And they took counsel together"

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

2:18

Chorus: "Commit thy way to Jesus"

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:15

Recit,Chorus: "At that feast then"

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

2:32

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

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

0:55

Recit: "The governor answered."

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

0:15

Recit: "To all men Jesus good hath done"

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

1:17

Aria: "For love my Saviour now is dying"

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

5:13

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

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

2:24

Recit: "O Gracious God"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, 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."

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

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear

1:28

Recitative: "In truth, to bear the Cross"

Stephen Roberts, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

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"

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, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:15

Recit: "Ah, Golgotha! Unhappy Golgotha!"

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

1:47

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

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

3:48

Recit/Chorus: "Now from the sixth hour"

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

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."

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

2:50

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

Alfreda Hodgson, Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Dame Felicity Lott, Bach Choir, Neil Jenkins, 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
John Shirley-Quirk

Baritone
Robert Tear

Tenor

Andrew Cornall

Producer
Simon Eadon

Engineer
Ivor Atkins

Editing Engineer
Kenneth Wilkinson

Balance 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

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Sir David Willcocks

Bach Choir

John Shirley-Quirk

Robert Tear

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Bach: St. Matthew Passion

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