Bach: Johannes-Passion (Box-Set, Br-Klassik)

Even after nearly three hundred years, the music of Bach’s St. John Passion is still lively, fresh and a true baroque delight can now be experienced in concert or from the record. What makes the live recording of the concert performance published here on March 7, 2015 in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz so special are the unused voices of the young and excellent vocal soloists, the crystal-clear sound, which is repeatedly praised in the highest tones, and the immense plasticity of the choir Bavarian Radio under the direction of Peter Dijkstra and of course the renowned original sound ensemble Concerto Köln. And it is also the lively live atmosphere of a concert event that thrilled both the public and the trade press.