Organization

Conductor

Owen Rees

Singer

Tenor

Robert Murray

Evangelist

Bass

Tristan Hambleton

Jesus

Soprano

Keri Fuge

Contralto

Helen Charlston

Mezzo-soprano

Mark Wilde

William Thomas

Others

Choir of The Queen’s College

Orchestra

The Boys of Radley College Choir

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

St Matthew Passion

Oxford

United Kingdom

The Sheldonian Theatre

Public

St. Matthew Passion

Approved

Matthäus Passion, BWV 244

Bach’s great depiction of Jesus’s arrest and crucifixion, the St Matthew Passion, was unprecedented when it was first performed on Good Friday 1727. All that could have prepared the congregation at St Thomas’s Church in Leipzig was their own Lutheran belief in importance of reliving the suffering and transcendence of Christ. Bach’s music, though, speaks to the whole of humanity in its monumental depth and drama. The Orchestra is joined by Oxfordshire choirs and front-rank soloists for this Passiontide performance under The Queen’s College’s Owen Rees.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble