‎Bach: St. Matthew Passion by Bach Choir

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, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra, 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"

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, 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"

Sir David Willcocks, Robert Tear, Thames Chamber Orchestra

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

1:36

Recitative: "My Master and my Lord"

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

1:03

Aria: "Grief for sin"

Alfreda Hodgson, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks

4:52

Recitative: "Then went one of the disciples"

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

0:40

Aria: "Break in grief"

Alexa Turpin, Thames Chamber Orchestra, William Bennett, Dame Felicity Lott, 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.

Bach Choir, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra

0:22

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

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

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

3:30

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

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

1:27

Aria: "Jesus, Saviour, I am thine"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Lorraine Wood, Sir David Willcocks, 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"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

1:03

Recit: "Simon Peter made answer"

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

2:16

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

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

2:12

Aria: "I would beside my Lord be watching"

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

5:37

Recit: "And he went away"

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

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Roberts, Sir David Willcocks

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"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

1:15

Recitative: "And he came again and found them sleeping

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

2:34

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

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

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"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Bach Choir

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"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, 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"

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

1:22

Recitative: "He holds His peace"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, Neil Jenkins

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

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

0:54

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

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

1:11

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

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

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

1:09

Recit/Chorus: "Now when the morning came"

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

1:07

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

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

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

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

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

0:15

Recit: "To all men Jesus good hath done"

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

1:17

Aria: "For love my Saviour now is dying"

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

5:13

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

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

2:24

Recit: "O Gracious God"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Alfreda Hodgson

1:19

Aria: "If my tears be unavailing"

Sir David Willcocks, Alfreda Hodgson, Thames Chamber Orchestra

7:45

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

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

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, Robert Tear, Sir David Willcocks

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, Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Adam Skeaping

7:09

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

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

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!"

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

1:47

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

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

3:48

Recit/Chorus: "Now from the sixth hour"

Thames Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, 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."

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"

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

2:50

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

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

2:18

Chorus: "In tears of grief"

Sir David Willcocks, Thames Chamber Orchestra, Bach Choir

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
Kenneth Wilkinson

Balance Engineer
Simon Eadon

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

RECORD LABEL

Johann Sebastian Bach

Bach Choir

Sir David Willcocks

Robert Tear

John Shirley-Quirk

Production

Bach: St. Matthew Passion

RECORD LABEL

On This Album

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