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Bach: St John Passion

Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Karl Forster (Conductor), Berlin St Hedwig's Cathedral Choir (Orchestra), Format: Audio CD

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Performer: Elisabeth Grümmer, Lisa Otto, Christa Ludwig, Fritz Wunderlich
Orchestra: Berlin St Hedwig's Cathedral Choir, Berlin Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Karl Forster
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Audio CD (1 Oct. 1999)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: EMI
ASIN: B000026NYQ
Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
Average Customer Review: 5 customer reviews
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 415,848 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #19574 in Symphonies for Orchestras
- #53001 in Compilations

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Disc: 1

1. "Herr, Unser Herrscher", Chorus

2. "O Mensch, Bewein Dein Sunde", Chorus

3. "Jesus Ging Mit Seinen Jungern Uber Den Bach Kidron", Recitative for Tenor & Bas

4. "Jesum Von Nazareth", Chorus

5. "Jesus Spricht Zu Ihnen: Ich Bin's", Recitative for Tenor & Bass

6. "Jesum Von Nazareth", Chorus

7. "Jesus Antwortet", Recitative for Tenor & Bass

8. "O Grosse Lieb'", Chorus

9. "Auf Dass Das Wort", Recitative for Tenor & Bass

10. "Dein Will' Gescheh', Herr Gott, Zugleich", Chorus

11. "Die Schar Aber ND Der Oberhaptmann", Recitative for Tenor

12. "Von Den Stricken Meiner Sunden", Aria for Alto

13. "Simon Petrus Aber Folgete Jesu Nach", Recitative for Tenor

14. "Ich Folge Dir", Aria for Soprano

15. "Derselbige Junger War Dem Hohenpriester Bekannt", Recitative for Tenor, Soprano

16. "Wer Hat Dich So Geschlagen", Chorus

17. "Und Hannas Sandte Ihn Gebunden Zu Dem Hohenpriester", Recitative for Tenor

18. "Bist Du Nicht Seiner Junger Einer?", Chorus

19. "Er Leugnete Aber Und Sprach: Ich Bin's Nicht", Recitative for Tenor, Bass & Sop

20. "Ach, Mein Sinn, Wo Willt Du Endlich Hin", Aria for Tenor

21. "Peter, Der Nicht Denkt Zuruck, Seinen Gott Verneinet", Chorus

22. "Christus, Der Uns Selig Macht", Chorus

23. "Da Fuhreten Sie Jesum Von Caiphas Vor Das Richthaus", Recitative for Tenor & Ba

24. "Ware Dieser Nicht Ein Ubelthater", Chorus

25. "Da Sprach Pilatus Zu Ihnen", Recitative for Tenor & Bass

26. "Wir Durfen Niemand Todten", Chorus

27. "Auf Dass Erfullet Wurde Das Wort Jesu", Recitative for Tenor & Bass

28. "Ach, Grosser Konig, Gross Zu Allen Zeiten", Chorus

29. "Da Sprach Pilatus Zu Ihm: So Bist Du Denoch Ein Konig?", Recitative for Tenor &

30. "Nicht Diesen, Sondern Barrabam!", Chorus

31. "Barrabas Aber War Ein Morder", Recitative for Tenor

32. "Betrachte, Meine Seel', Mit Angstlichen Vergnugen", Aria for Bass

33. "Erwage, Wein Sein Blutgefarbter Rucken", Aria for Tenor

34. "Und Die Kriegsknechte Folchten Ein Krone Von Dornen", Recitative for Tenor

35. "Sei Gegrusset, Lieber Judenkonig!", Chorus

36. "Und Gaben Ihm Backenstreiche", Recitative for Tenor & Bass

37. "Kreuzige!", Chorus

38. "Pilatus Sprach Zu Ihnen: Nehmet Ihr Ihn Hin", Recitative for Tenor & Bass

39. "Wir Haben Ein Gesetz, Und Nach Dem Gesetz Soll Er Sterben", Chorus

40. "Da Pilatus Das Worte Horete, Furchtet'er Sich Roch Mehr", Recitative for Tenor

41. "Durch Dein Gefangniss, Gottes Sohn", Chorus

42. "Die Juden Aber, Die Weil Es Der Rusttag War", Recitative for Tenor

43. "Lassest Du Diesen Los", Chorus

44. "Da Pilatus Das Worte Horete, Fuhrete Er Jesum Heraus", Recitative for Tenor & B

45. "Weg, Weg Mit Dem", Chorus

46. "Spricht Pilatus Zu Ihnen", Recitative for Tenor & Bass

47. "Wir Haben Keinen Konig", Chorus

48. "Da Uberant Wortet Er Ihn", Recitative for Tenor

49. "Eilt, Ihr Angefocht'nen Seelen", Aria for Bass

50. "Allda Kreuzigten Sie Ihn", Recitative for Tenor

51. "Schreibe Nicht: Der Juden Konig", Chorus

52. "Pilatus Antwortet: Was Ich Geschrieben Habe", Recitative for Tenor & Bass

53. "In Meines Herzens Grunde", Chorus

54. "Die Kriegsknechte Aber, Da Sie Jesum Gekreuzigt Hatten", Recitative for Tenor

55. "Lasset Uns", Chorus

56. "Auf Das Erfullet Wurde Die Schrift", Recitative for Tenor & Bass

57. "Er Nahm Alles Wohl in Acht", Chorus

58. "Und Von Stund' An Nahm Sie Der Junger Zu Sich", Recitative for Tenor & Bass

59. "Es Ist Vollbracht, Der Held Von Juda Siegt Mit Macht", Aria for Alto

60. "Und Neigte Das Haupt Und Verschied", Recitative for Tenor

61. "Mein Teurer Heiland", Aria for Bass

62. "Und Siehe Da, Der Vorhang Im Tempel Zerriss", Recitative for Tenor

63. "Mein Herz! Indem Die Ganze Welt", Arioso for Tenor

64. "Zerfliesse, Meine Herze, in Fluten Der Zahren", Aria for Soprano

65. "Die Juden Aber, Schrein Und Sprachen", Recitative for Tenor

66. "O Hilf, Christe, Gottes Sohn", Chorus

67. "Darnach Bat Pilatum Joseph Von Arimathia", Recitative for Tenor

68. "Ruht Wohl, Ihr Heiligen Gebeine", Chorus

69. "Ach, Herr, Lass Dein' Lieb' Engelein", Chorus

70. "Christe, Du Lamm Gottes", Chorus

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D. G. H. Haslett

A performance that delivers what really matters.

26 March 2016

Format: Audio CD

How can I have missed this recording? I am greedy for Bach Passions and have fifteen recordings of the Saint John. I guess I have been lured away by the HIP crowd. Now I am inclined to like those recordings - I think the clarity of the writing is often heard in a very distinct way, rather like the way one hears the lines in Wendy Carlos' Moog versions of Bach - but they generally appeal to the head rather than the heart. I'm not overwhelmed by them. This performance from the 'age of the dinosaurs' is visceral and passionate.

It would rate five stars just for Wunderlich as Evangelist. I dare say there are critics who might waste time dreaming of what he might have achieved with this music with a maturity denied through his early death. No need. He is magnificent and no other Evangelist has his beauty of voice. The diction of all soloists and chorus is exemplary. The text is truly articulated.

DFD tends to get a bad press these days - but surely for the recordings made when past his prime. I only heard him once live - Brahms Requiem in the Royal Albert Hall when he was about 60. In that venue he impressed me hugely. Here he is in his prime and I find him magnificent.

Grummer is lovely (so unlike all those Minnie Mouse sopranos who grace recordings of the past thirty years - all top and no bottom, so to speak) Ludwig sounds like a true contralto. All are strong, dedicated performers. Traxel is new to me as tenor soloist. In a way, he exemplifies what distinguishes this performance as a whole from the HIP crowd. Passion. It is not always lovely but it is tremendously involved singing, suggesting at times the intensity of Vickers. And of course it is so much 'bigger' as a voice in this music than we have become used to. As are all the forces here. Great chorus, full bodied and totally involved. However, there is considerable delicacy and intimacy also in this performance - there is a true chamber music feel to the solos.

Ultimately, the bottom line is this - this is a deeply spiritual performance. And that, I find, is all too rare in a world of Bach performance which tends to be intellectual and bloodless. Highest possible recommendation.

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A "reference status" recording indeed

25 October 2014

Format: Audio CD

Before period movement came along and knocked the Romantic Bach proponents off their perches, it may be assumed that all Bach performances were about as life-enhancing as wading through knee-deep custard in leaky wellies, right? Wrong. I am continually surprised by the animation of some of those classic recordings from the 60's; this one is no exception - in fact it's a paradigm amongst Bach recordings, not just for the supremacy of its cast but the lift and spring of its direction, too. Of course, we have a large-scale orchestra in the Berliner Symphoniker and a big choir but there is no lack of articulation of detail in their performance; just listen to the pace and drive of the chorus "Wäre dieser nicht ein Übeltäter". The stellar soloists tend to treat the arias operatically - which is fine by me given the drama of the events in the Greatest Story Ever Told.

I bought this bargain re-issue not just on the strength of the recommendations by the two previous reviewers but also because I owned and frequently played the LP's when I lived in New York in the 80's; the mighty tread of that opening chorus "Herr, unser Herrscher" transported me back to the Old Continent then and it still transports me today with its stately yet urgent appeal. As far as I know, this is its first appearance on CD in the UK fifty years after its recording and it's thirty years since I owned bought the LP's second-hand - so I've certainly waited long enough.

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Judy Spotheim

Power-house of singing - not too great German digital transfer

2 July 2011

Format: Audio CD

Here we have a power-horse of a St. John Passion that might be considered top of the crop.
Strangely enough; though since its debut in 1961 on LPs, it belonged to the EMI group, but has never seen the day of light in England, and yet, it bravely stood the test of time throughout the German EMI Electrola LP releases in all of its various German pressing editions, starting with the debuted edition, ancient Electrola, rare original Stereo 80-668-70 (3-LPs), the one with the white-golden-rim label...!

The recording was made in the Grünwaldkirche, Berlin, a church that was extensively used for other Electrola Bach arias and cantatas and for various other church music recordings, sometimes with the Berlin Symphoniker and with the St. Hedwigs-Kathedrale choir, conducted by Karl Forster.

This St. Johannes-passion is boasting with top singers: Fritz Wunderlish as the Evangelist; Dietrish-Fischer-Dieskau as Jesus; Chrisian Kohn (bass) as Petrus & Pelatus; Elisabeth Grümmer (Soprano); Christa Ludwig (alto); Josef Traxel (tenor arias).
St. Hedwigs-Kathedrale Berlin choir; Berliner Symphoniker with solo instrumentalist's which are members of the orchestra conducted by Karl Foster. As can be expected from a 1961 reading, the style and forces involved are of the 'old-school' guard - full bloodied choir and orchestra.

It is most conceivable that Fritz Wunderlich in this recording is the best evangelist one could wish for, vocally and stylishly he is the most successful of them all. The voice is fresh, tuned, and with great shading, pitch and nuances throughout.
Like all of the other soloists the voices are captured in focus, not too upfront, but in a clear spacious atmosphere and the sound as a whole have great presence and good sound-stage spread. (One shouldn't forget that those early late fifties and early sixties recordings were made with tube-gear and that the old tapes should lend themselves quite harmonically correct to the digital transfer processes).

Soprano Elisabeth Grümmer in this recording exhibits a silvery shimmer, light lyric, well pitched-tone of voice which is a delight to the ear, and Fischer-Dieskau (quite a small role of Jesus) sings with dignity and with perfect tuned-in vision of his singing lines.
Joseph Traxel tackles the tenor arias in a perfect projected voice and Christian Kohn bass with a creamy deep-registered voice sings both roles of Petrus and of Pilatus while making a clear differentiation between the two roles.

The icing on the cake is Christa Ludwig (mezzo-Soprano) who on this recording, in the original edition of Electrola white-golden-rim label Stereo LPs - is classified as "Alto". The manner of singing this genius talented singer adopts here is an oratorio-style (devoid of operatic mannerism). Her singing style here is long stokes legato with huge breath-control and with tamed vibrato that is kept for the lowest lingering notes, and the hue she adopts has an alto-like beauty of the voice. Surely her singing of the 'Es ist volbracht' can, and will, bring tears to the eye.

Some might wonder why I endowed this magnificent 2-CD set with only four stars:
Two reasons:
First: The booklet (11 pages on a very thin paper) does not include text and translation; just tracks numbering, title division, and some not too related topics. A full text and translation is needed for those who do not understand German, and the booklet could easily be enlarged (on that sort of thin paper) to include the text which is not very lengthy.
Second:
The German digital transfer of those magnificent Electrola old tube recorded tapes is marred by an un-called for equalization that lends the sound an up-tilt in the midrange and higher midrange frequencies and robs the bloom and harmonic integrity of the early analogue tapes from shining through. There is a constant thinness of the sound (less audible on the soloists' voices) and with it some 'grain' and un-comfortable mechanically hue with slight unfocused orchestral and choir passages sound.
(Having the original early white-gold-rime Electrola LP pressings, gave me the formidable opportunity to gain more audible insights into the recording than what this present-day CD offering ever could...)

It just might be that listeners to this 2-CD set would not find the digital transfer lacking, or that they would never really come to know the beauty and the sonic integrity of the 'real-thing' found with the original LPs Electrola edition.
I wonder what 'miracles' a true good British EMI digital transfer would bring to light here (considering other Forster recording from this very same age made in the Grünwaldkirche, Berlin, and I am thinking of the Fischer-Dieskau Bach cantatas and arias, which enjoys an honest un-equalized transfer, made by a true British EMI).

There is another edition of this very same recording shown on Amazon pages (B00496HVU - 4 July 2011). Looking carefully at the back cover of both one can see that both versions are "made in the EU". This fact voids the notion that the "later" edition (B00496HVU - 4 July 2011) is a British EMI remastering. It simply means that stocks of the first edition is already dwindling and a second prints of that recording is coming soon...Hence, I venture to predict that both versions are one and the same with all of the hindrances mentioned thus far (for this edition: B000026NYQ - 1 October 1999).

One thing is clear: The equalized sound of the German digital transfer, combined with the booklet-less presentation, and combined with the steep asking price - all these are hindrances; hence - four stars.

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