Collegium Vocale Gent - Bach: Matthaus-Passion (St Matthew Passion) BWV 244 /Bostridge * Selig * Rubens * Scholl * Gura * Henschel * Collegium Vocale * Herreweghe (+CD-Rom)
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Free Music Notes for Bach: Matthaus-Passion (St Matthew Passion) BWV 244 /Bostridge * Selig * Rubens * Scholl * Gura * Henschel * Collegium Vocale * Herreweghe (+CD-Rom)
Free Music Review: SPECTACULAR!
Hit: 5 Stars
I already owned a wonderful version of Bach's sublime "Passion," but I purchased this one simply because I am a huge fan of the tenor, Ian Bostridge. It was worth every penny. This is, simply, the most beautiful version of this magnificent music that I have ever heard. And Bostridge is absolutely first rate as the "Evangelist." But then every soloist, the orchestra and the chorus are everything one could hope for. The sound is, as I have come to expect from the Harmonia Mundi label, absolutely full and rich and crisp. I have only looked briefly at the extra cd-rom, but it looks interesting and worthwhile. This is a dream recording that I shall own and play with great happiness.Free Music Review: bleed on my dear heart
Hit: 5 Stars
Wow! This album is purely fluid and emotionally riveting. Yes, the CdRom is good, especially if you don't know german. With the CDRom in your computer you can listen to the entire oratorio with a simultaneous English translation on the screen. But the CD is where the album really shines. This is not simply a presentation of the Gospel. The two choirs comment on the action as the story unfolds, angrily, pleadingly, entreatingly. The choirs make the appeal to the audience. Beseeching them, pardon me, beseeching us, in the light of Christ's sacrifice, to repent. On a second level, the soloists react emotionally as individuals to the action of the Gospel. The effect is rather like Greek tragedy, with a chorus behind the actors commenting on the action. In the foreground, Ian Bostridge and FJ Selig are a masterful duo as Evangelist and Jesus carry to motive weight of the oratorio. Half the time I don't know what they are saying, but the music is so powerful and so powerfully performed that I find myself reacting emotionally. And, when I know what they are saying, it's even more instense. The Passion is the perfect matching of form and content. Herrewege's realization of the passion sets the most perfect content in the most perfect form. The tempi is perfect. The emotional intensity is right. It breathes.Free Music Review: Marvellous
Hit: 5 Stars
Until this one came along, John Eliot Gardiner's recording had no competition - now it has. There can be no higher praise.Free Music Review: Oustanding Evangelist in Ian Bostridge
Hit: 5 Stars
Ian Bostridge is an outstanding Evangelist. Crystal clear diction. He brings more drama to it than those who sing it without "personality". More "input": not simply dispassionate narration/scene-setting for the dialogues and arias. This is no mere historian of the events, or spectator. St Matthew's excitement and involvement/commitment are palpable, without loss of the narrator's essential authority. He gives it the quality of an eye-witness account. Easy to overdo this approach - but he pulls it off with perfect balance. I bought the CD for Andreas Scholl, who is wonderful, but I have to admit that Bostridge is the star among these soloists, who are all way, way above average.Free Music Review: Oustanding Evangelist in Ian Bostridge
Hit: 5 Stars
Ian Bostridge is an outstanding Evangelist. Crystal clear diction. He brings more drama to it than those who sing it without "personality". More "input": not simply dispassionate narration/scene-setting for the dialogues and arias. This is no mere historian of the events, or spectator. St Matthew's excitement and involvement/commitment are palpable, without loss of the narrator's essential authority. He gives it the quality of an eye-witness account. Easy to overdo this approach - but he pulls it off with perfect balance. I bought the CD for Andreas Scholl, who is wonderful, but I have to admit that Bostridge is the star among these soloists, who are all way, way above average.