‎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."

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

0:51

Chorus: "O blessed Jesu."

Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir, 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"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear

0:34

Chorus: "To what purpose is this waste"

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, 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, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Richard Dobson, Sir David Willcocks, Richard Adeney

1:03

Aria: "Grief for sin"

Alfreda Hodgson, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

4:52

Recitative: "Then went one of the disciples"

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

0:40

Aria: "Break in grief"

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

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.

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

0:22

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

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

1:56

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

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

0:56

Recitative: "He answered them and said"

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

3:30

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

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

1:27

Aria: "Jesus, Saviour, I am thine"

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

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, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

1:03

Recit: "Simon Peter made answer"

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

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

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

5:37

Recit: "And he went away"

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

Sir David Willcocks, Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra

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"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

1:15

Recitative: "And he came again and found them sleeping

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

2:34

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

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

4:54

Recitative: "And behold, one of the others"

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

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

4:23

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

Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

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"

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

1:22

Recitative: "He holds His peace"

Sir David Willcocks, Neil Jenkins, Thames Chamber Orchestra

1:05

Aria: "Endure, Endure"

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

3:45

Recit/Chorus: "And the high priest answered

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

1:43

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

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

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

1:11

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

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

1:25

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

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

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"

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

1:07

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

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

0:46

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

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

3:35

Recitative: "And they took counsel together"

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

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

2:32

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

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:55

Recit: "The governor answered."

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

0:15

Recit: "To all men Jesus good hath done"

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

1:17

Aria: "For love my Saviour now is dying"

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

5:13

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

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

2:24

Recit: "O Gracious God"

Sir David Willcocks, Alfreda Hodgson, Thames Chamber Orchestra

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, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, 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"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks

1:28

Recitative: "In truth, to bear the Cross"

Sir David Willcocks, Stephen Roberts, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:42

Aria: "Come healing cross"

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

7:09

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

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

3:52

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

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear

0:15

Recit: "Ah, Golgotha! Unhappy Golgotha!"

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

1:47

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

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

3:48

Recit/Chorus: "Now from the sixth hour"

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

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

3:06

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

Stephen Roberts, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

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"

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

2:50

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

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

2:18

Chorus: "In tears of grief"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks

7:10

Johann Sebastian Bach

Composer
Sir David Willcocks

Conductor
Bach Choir

Choir
Robert Tear

Tenor
John Shirley-Quirk

Baritone

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

Robert Tear

John Shirley-Quirk

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Bach: St. Matthew Passion

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