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J S Bach - St John Passion, BWV 245
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Label: Avie
Cat No: AV2236
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 6th February 2012
Contents
Artists
Charles Daniels (tenor)Cappella Romana
Portland Baroque Orchestra
Conductor
Monica HuggettWorks
St John Passion, BWV245Artists
Charles Daniels (tenor)Cappella Romana
Portland Baroque Orchestra
Conductor
Monica HuggettAbout
Monica Huggett has produced numerous best-selling and acclaimed recordings for Avie, notably the Grammy®-nominated Bach Orchestral Suites (AV2171) which made the Top 10 of Billboard’s Traditional Classical Chart. This remarkable version – Monica claims – restored Suite No.2 to its original instrumentation, placing the solo line with oboe rather than the more commonly-heard flute. She makes a similar case with her new recording of Bach’s St John Passion, placing oboes where we typically hear flutes, arguing convincingly that Bach’s original score was produced during his early years working in Leipzig where flutes were unavailable to him.
Once again, Monica is aided and abetted by baroque oboist Gonzalo X Ruiz, who states “The omission of flutes gives the St John Passion a less galante feel for Bach’s music that developed in the mid-18th century and restores a trim sound, in line with most orchestral music of the time. It retains, however, an undeniable richness of orchestration owing to the uncommon string instruments in the arias.”
Monica continues: “There have been many scholarly discussions about the forces originally used for the St. John Passion, including the suggestion of performing it with one voice or instrument to a part. The most satisfying performances in my personal experience have been those involving a small chorus matched with a small orchestra. I have chosen, therefore, to have about an equal number of instrumentalists alongside a group of twelve singers capable of both solo and consort singing, as Bach would have had in Leipzig.”
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