Name: Opening Concert: St Matthew Passion
Start: 2024-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Usher Hall

Admin

Edinburgh International Festival

Direzione d'orchestra

Ryan Wigglesworth

Orchestra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Others

Edinburgh Festival Chorus

RSNO Youth Chorus

Direzione del coro

James Grossmith

Patrick Barrett

Cantante

Elizabeth Watts

Soloist

Sarah Connolly

Laurence Kilsby

James Atkinson

Opening Concert: St Matthew Passion

Edimburgo

Regno Unito

Usher Hall

Opening Concert: St Matthew Passion: Matthäus Passion, BWV 244 (arr. Felix Mendelssohn) Bach, Johann Sebastian

Public

Matthäus Passion, BWV 244 (arr. Felix Mendelssohn)

Sushant Karmakar

Approvato

The young Felix Mendelssohn transformed Johann Sebastian Bach’s majestic St Matthew Passion for modern orchestra. His groundbreaking performances of his impassioned arrangement in Berlin (1829) and Leipzig (1841 – the version heard in this concert) changed the course of music history. Without these, the great Bach revival might never have happened.

Mendelssohn’s version foregrounds the urgent narrative and potent emotions of the Passion story, illustrating Christ’s capture, trial and crucifixion.

Join the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, their Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and six soloists – including ‘star evangelist’ (The Arts Desk) Ed Lyon – as they rekindle an epoch-defining event.

English

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Cast

Team creativo

Ensemble