Music

Bach Matthäus-Passion

Name: Bach Matthäus-Passion
Director: Dick Kuijs
Genre: Music
Released: 2012-04-07
Duration: 174 min
Cast: Mark Padmore, Peter Harvey, Maria Espada, Ingeborg Danz, Barbara Koselj

April 7, 2012

2h 54m

A beautiful, sensitive, reverent performance. Fischer allows Bach to speak with no unnecessary flourishes. Padmore as the Evangelist is superb, and the other soloists and choirs are near perfect. And of course the Concertgebouw orchestral musicians are absolutely first class.