‎Bach: St. Matthew Passion by Bach Choir

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

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

8:34

Recitative: "When Jesus had completed all."

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

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"

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:26

Chorus: "Not upon the feast"

Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

0:17

Recitative:"Now when Jesus was in Bethany"

Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:34

Chorus: "To what purpose is this waste"

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

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"

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

1:03

Aria: "Grief for sin"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Alfreda Hodgson

4:52

Recitative: "Then went one of the disciples"

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

0:40

Aria: "Break in grief"

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

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.

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:22

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

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

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"

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

3:30

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

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

1:27

Aria: "Jesus, Saviour, I am thine"

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

3:57

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

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

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

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

2:16

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

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

2:12

Aria: "I would beside my Lord be watching"

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

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"

Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

4:25

Recitative: "And he came to his disciples"

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

1:30

Chorale: "O Father, let thy will be done"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

1:15

Recitative: "And he came again and found them sleeping

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

2:34

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

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

4:54

Recitative: "And behold, one of the others"

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

2:33

Chorus: "O man, thy grievous sin bemoan"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

7:05

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

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

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"

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:57

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

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

1:22

Recitative: "He holds His peace"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Neil Jenkins

1:05

Aria: "Endure, Endure"

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

3:45

Recit/Chorus: "And the high priest answered

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

1:43

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

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

0:39

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

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

0:54

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

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

1:11

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

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

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:09

Recit/Chorus: "Now when the morning came"

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

1:07

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

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

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"

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

2:18

Chorus: "Commit thy way to Jesus"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

1:15

Recit,Chorus: "At that feast then"

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

2:32

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

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:55

Recit: "The governor answered."

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

0:15

Recit: "To all men Jesus good hath done"

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

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"

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

2:24

Recit: "O Gracious God"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Alfreda Hodgson, Sir David Willcocks

1:19

Aria: "If my tears be unavailing"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Alfreda Hodgson, Sir David Willcocks

7:45

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

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

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"

Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:28

Recitative: "In truth, to bear the Cross"

Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

0:42

Aria: "Come healing cross"

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

7:09

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

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

3:52

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

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear

0:15

Recit: "Ah, Golgotha! Unhappy Golgotha!"

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

1:47

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

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

3:48

Recit/Chorus: "Now from the sixth hour"

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

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, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

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"

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

2:50

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

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

2:18

Chorus: "In tears of grief"

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, 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
Ivor Atkins

Editing Engineer
Sir Edward Elgar

Editing Engineer
Simon Eadon

Engineer
Kenneth Wilkinson

Balance 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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