Stephen Varcoe / Charles Daniels / Stephan Loges

St John Passion - Passio secundum, BWV 245

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212020920
Catnr: SIGCD 209
Release date: 01 October 2010
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212020920
Catalogue number
SIGCD 209
Release date
01 October 2010
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About the album

J.S. Bach’s ‘Passions’ have been said to employ the word with more than one meaning – as well as telling the story of Christ’s sacrifice, they are simultaneously a celebration of human feeling in the joy and suffering of man’s pilgrimage on earth. The expert early music chamber orchestra Yorkshire Baroque Soloists bring all of these feelings to life in a dramatic and resonant performance of Bach’s Passio Secundum Johannem (St John Passion).

Joined for this recording by the excellent Charles Daniels, Stephen Varcoe and Stephan Loges, the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists have been a leading light in the world of Early Music performance since their formation in 1973.

Artist(s)

Stephan Loges

Born in Dresden, Stephan was an early winner of the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition. He has given recitals throughout the world, including regular appearances at Wigmore Hall London and the Oxford Lieder Festival, as well as Carnegie Hall New York, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vienna Konzerthaus, La Monnaie Brussels, Kuhmo Festival, Santiago de Compostela, BBC Radio 3 and the Vocal Arts Series in Washington with pianists Roger Vignoles, Graham Johnson, Eugene Asti, Simon Lepper, Alexander Schmalcz, Joseph Middleton, Sholto Kynoch and Iain Burnside. Plans this season and beyond include returning to the Theater an der Wien to sing Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte with René Jacobs & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Elijah at Gloucester Cathedral, Bernstein Songfest with Kristjan Järvi & MDR...
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Born in Dresden, Stephan was an early winner of the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition. He has given recitals throughout the world, including regular appearances at Wigmore Hall London and the Oxford Lieder Festival, as well as Carnegie Hall New York, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vienna Konzerthaus, La Monnaie Brussels, Kuhmo Festival, Santiago de Compostela, BBC Radio 3 and the Vocal Arts Series in Washington with pianists Roger Vignoles, Graham Johnson, Eugene Asti, Simon Lepper, Alexander Schmalcz, Joseph Middleton, Sholto Kynoch and Iain Burnside.
Plans this season and beyond include returning to the Theater an der Wien to sing Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte with René Jacobs & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Elijah at Gloucester Cathedral, Bernstein Songfest with Kristjan Järvi & MDR Sinfonieorchester at the Gewandhaus Leipzig, Bach Cantatas with Nuria Rial & Ensemble Capricornus im Burghof Lörrach, Bach Christmas Oratorio with Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO in London and Paris, as well as recitals at Wigmore Hall and the Oxford Lieder Festival.
Concerts have included Britten War Requiem with Melbourne and Sapporo Symphony Orchestras, Mozart Requiem with Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra and Bernard Labadie, Beethoven Symphony No 9 and Penderecki 3 Chinese Songs with the Ulster Orchestra, Kaija Saariaho The Tempest Songbook with the Scharoun Ensemble, Handel Messiah with San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the AAM and Richard Egarr, Telemann Brockes Passion with Raphaël Pichon and Ensemble Pygmalion, Mauregato in Schubert Alfonso und Estrella with Salzburg Mozarteum Orchester und Ivor Bolton, Mendelssohn Die erste Walpurgisnacht with Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Firenze, Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Robin Ticciati, Haydn Creation with Iceland Symphony Orchestra and Kammerakademie Potsdam, Haydn Jahreszeiten with Staatskapelle Dresden, Bruckner Requiem with Northern Sinfonia, and regular appearances with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Stephan has sung Bach Cantatas with Sir John Eliot Gardiner as part of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage and the Passions with the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh (both recorded for DG). He made his Proms debut in 2002 in St Matthew Passion with Trevor Pinnock and his since sung it with many period and modern orchestras, most recently with the OAE and on a European tour with The Monteverdi Choir and Gardiner (recorded live on SDG).
Opera roles have included Begearss in Milhaud La mère coupable at Theater an der Wien, Golaud Pelléas et Mélisande with English Touring Opera, Bruno in Macmillan Parthenogenesis for ROH Covent Garden, Moritz in Mernier Frühlings Erwachen at Opera National du Rhin, Wolfram Tannhäuser and Papageno Zauberflöte at La Monnaie, and Graf Capriccio in concert at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Stephan was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor before studying at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama London.

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Peter Seymour (conductor)

Composer(s)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and hundreds of cantatas. His music is revered for its technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual depth.  Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.  
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Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He enriched established German styles through his skill in counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include the Brandenburg Concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Mass in B minor, two Passions, and hundreds of cantatas. His music is revered for its technical command, artistic beauty, and intellectual depth.

Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest in and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time.


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Disc #1
01.
Herr, unser Herrscher (Chorus)
10:01
02.
Jesus ging mit seinen Jüngern (Evangelist, Jesus)
02:18
03.
O große Lieb, o Lieb ohn' alle Maße (Chorale)
00:34
04.
Auf daß das Wort erfüllet würde (Evangelist, Jesus)
01:01
05.
Dein Will gescheh, Herr Gott, zugleich (Chorale)
00:35
06.
Die Schar aber und der Oberhauptmann (Evangelist)
00:39
07.
Von den Stricken meiner Sünden mich zu entbinden (Aria, alto)
05:03
08.
Simon Petrus aber folgete Jesu nach (Evangelist)
00:13
09.
Ich folge dir gleichfalls mit freudigen Schritten (Aria, soprano)
03:40
10.
Derselbige Jünger war dem Hohenpriester bekannt
03:03
11.
Wer hat dich so geschlagen (Chorale)
01:08
12.
Und Hannas sandte ihn gebunden (Evangelist)
02:09
13.
Ach, mein Sinn, wo willt du endlich hin (Aria, tenor)
02:18
14.
Petrus, der nicht denkt zurück (Chorale)
00:54

Disc #2
01.
Christus, der uns selig macht (Chorale)
00:47
02.
Da führeten sie Jesum von Kaiphas vor das Richthaus (Evangelist, Pilate)
04:06
03.
Ach großer König, groß zu allen Zeiten (Chorale)
01:05
04.
Da sprach Pilatus zu ihm (Evangelist, Pilate, Jesus)
01:55
05.
Betrachte, meine Seel, mit ängstlichem Vergnügen (Arioso, bass)
02:21
06.
Erwäge, wie sein blutgefärbter Rücken (Aria, tenor)
07:39
07.
Und die Kriegsknechte flochten eine Krone von Dornen (Evangelist)
05:40
08.
Durch dein Gefängnis, Gottes Sohn (Chorale)
00:41
09.
Die Jüden aber schrieen und sprachen (Evangelist)
04:11
10.
Eilt ihr angefochtnen Seelen (Aria, bass & chorus)
03:47
11.
Allda kreuzigten sie ihn (Evangelist)
02:05
12.
In meines Herzens Grunde (Chorale)
00:30
13.
Die Kriegsknechte aber (Evangelist)
03:45
14.
Er nahm alles wohl in acht (Chorale)
00:53
15.
Und von Stund an nahm (Evangelist, Jesus)
01:33
16.
Es ist vollbracht! (Aria, alto)
05:38
17.
Und neigte das Haupt und verschied (Evangelist)
00:23
18.
Mein teurer Heiland, laß dich fragen (Aria, bass & chorus)
04:16
19.
Und Siehe da, der Vorhang im Tempel zerriß (Evangelist, Jesus)
00:26
20.
Mein Herz, in dem die ganze Welt (Arioso, tenor)
00:50
21.
Zerfließe, mein Herze (Aria, soprano)
06:48
22.
Die Jüden aber, dieweil es der Rüsttag war (Evangelist)
02:12
23.
O hilf, Christe, Gottes Sohn (Chorale)
00:50
24.
Darnach bat Pilatum Joseph von Arimathia (Evangelist)
02:16
25.
Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine (Chorus)
07:01
26.
Ach Herr, laß dein lieb Engelein (Chorale)
01:32
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