J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 Gaechinger Cantorey & Hans-Christoph Rademann

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1:
• 1Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 1, Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen07:04
• 2Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 2, Da Jesus diese Rede vollendet hatte00:40
• 3Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 3, Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen00:46
• 4Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 4, Da versammleten sich die Hohenpriester und Schriftgelehrten03:06
• 5Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 5, Du lieber Heiland du00:48
• 6Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 6, Buß und Reu04:01
• 7Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 7, Da ging hin der Zwölfen einer00:32
• 8Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 8, Blute nur, du liebes Herz04:13
• 9Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 9, Aber am ersten Tage der süssen Brot02:07
• 10Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 10, Ich bin's, ich sollte büßen00:43
• 11Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 11, Er antwortete und sprach02:47
• 12Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 12, Wiewohl mein Herz in Tränen schwimmt01:13
• 13Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 13, Ich will dir mein Herze schenken03:16
• 14Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 14, Und da sie den Lobgesang gesprochen hatten01:01
• 15Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 15, Erkenne mich, mein Hüter01:00
• 16Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 16, Petrus aber antwortete und sprach00:58
• 17Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 17, Ich will hier bei dir stehen01:02
• 18Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 18, Da kam Jesus mit ihnen01:41
• 19Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 19, O Schmerz!01:48
• 20Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 20, Ich will bei meinem Jesu wachen05:07
• 21Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 21, Und ging hin ein wenig00:37
• 22Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 22, Der Heiland fällt vor seinem Vater nieder00:51
• 23Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 23, Gerne will ich mich bequemen04:14
• 24Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 24, Und er kam zu seinen Jüngern und fand sie schlafend01:12
• 25Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 25, Was mein Gott will, das gscheh allzeit01:06
• 26Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 26, Und er kam und fand sie aber schlafend02:05
• 27Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 27, So ist mein Jesus nun gefangen04:21
• 28Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 28, Und siehe, einer aus denen, die mit Jesu waren02:08
• 29Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 29, O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß06:07
• St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2:
• 30Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 30, Ach, nun ist mein Jesus hin03:13
• 31Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 31, Die aber Jesum gegriffen hatten00:57
• 32Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 32, Mir hat die Welt trüglich gericht't00:47
• 33Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 33, Und wiewohl viel falsche Zeugen herzutraten01:03
• 34Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 34, Mein Jesus schweigt zu falschen Lügen stille00:55
• 35Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 35, Geduld, Geduld! Wenn mich falsche Zungen stechen03:23
• 36Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 36, Und der Hohepriester antwortete01:57
• 37Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 37, Wer hat dich so geschlagen00:46
• 38Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 38, Petrus aber saß draußen im Palast02:08
• 39Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 39, Erbarme dich, mein Gott, um meiner Zähren Willen05:57
• 40Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 40, Bin ich gleich von dir gewichen01:03
• 41Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 41, Des Morgens aber hielten alle Hohepriester und die Ältesten des Volks einen Rat01:45
• 42Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 42, Gebt mir meinen Jesum wieder02:50
• 43Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 43, Sie hielten aber einen Rat und kauften einen Töpfersacker02:01
• 44Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 44, Befiehl du deine Wege01:02
• 45Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 45, Auf das Fest aber hatte der Landpfleger Gewohnheit02:18
• 46Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 46, Wie wunderbarlich ist doch diese Strafe00:48
• 47Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 47, Der Landpfleger sagte00:14
• 48Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 48, Er hat uns allen wohlgetan01:07
• 49Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 49, Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben04:51
• 50Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 50, Sie schrieen aber noch mehr und sprachen01:50
• 51Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 51, Erbarm es Gott!00:49
• 52Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 52, Können Tränen meiner Wangen06:12
• 53Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 53, Da nahmen die Kriegsknechte des Landpflegers Jesum01:07
• 54Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 54, O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden02:20
• 55Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 55, Und da sie ihn verspottet hatten00:45
• 56Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 56, Ja freilich will in uns das Fleisch und Blut00:34
• 57Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 57, Komm, süßes Kreuz, so will ich sagen05:31
• 58Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 58, Und da sie an die Stätte kamen03:23
• 59Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 59, Ach Golgatha, unselges Golgatha!01:30
• 60Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 60, Sehet, Jesus hat die Hand02:54
• 61Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 61, Und von der sechsten Stunde an02:03
• 62Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 62, Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden01:54
• 63Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 63, Und siehe da, der Vorhang im Tempel02:27
• 64Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 64, Am Abend, da es kühle war01:44
• 65Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 65, Mache dich, mein Herze, rein06:01
• 66Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 66, Und Joseph nahm den Leib02:25
• 67Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 67, Nun ist der Herr zur Ruh gebracht01:55
• 68Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 68, Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder05:14
• Total Runtime02:36:17

Info for J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

In its choreographed version of the St. Matthew Passion, the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart offers new dimensions to Bach‘s musical drama. And, for the one hundred schoolchildren who delved into Bach‘s monumental work and learned to dance as an artistic form of self-expression, it was an opportunity to experience the power of his music first hand. The interplay of professional musicians and young amateurs turned into a creative bridge for all involved.

“The St. Matthew Passion [..] was performed in March, filmed, released on DVD by the fine label accentus music” (FAZ)

“Rademann’s St Matthew Passion is musically soft and solemn.” (Pizzicato)

Gaechinger Cantorey
Hans-Christoph Rademann, conductor
Gerlinde Sämann, soprano
Isabel Jantschek, soprano
Benno Schachtner, alto
Benedikt Kristjánsson, tenor (Evangelist)
Paul Schweinester, tenor
Krešimir Stražanac, bass (Jesus)
Peter Harvey, bass
Students from schools in the Stuttgart region
Ensemble VivaTanz!
Friederike Rademann, idea, choreography and artistic direction

Recorded at the Forum am Schlosspark Ludwigsburg, March 2017

Gaechinger Cantorey
are the ensembles of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, bringing together outstanding European musicians under the direction of Akademie Director Hans-Christoph Rademann. Since the 2016/17 season, this name has marked out a new era for the internationally-famous ensembles of the Bachakademie. As Bach ambassadors they had performed for several decades as the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart and Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart under Helmuth Rilling. Now a newly-founded baroque orchestra and newly-constituted choir combine to form a superbly blended period ensemble. The aim is the development of a new ‘Stuttgart Bach style’ which embodies the hallmark of a Bachakademie of the future.

By deciding to have its own baroque orchestra and a choir formed of singers with practical, performing criteria in mind, the Bachakademie has forged a new path. The fundamental sound and unique international selling point of this new approach is reflected in the Bachakademie’s decision to commission a historical replica of a chamber organ by the legendary organ builder and contemporary of Bach, Gottfried Silbermann, recently discovered in 2013 in Seerhausen, Saxony. Its ideal baroque sound, true to the original, embodies the approach at the very heart of the newly-formed ensembles.

The first successful steps on the route to a new ‘Stuttgart Bach style’ were the ensemble’s performances in 2017 at the Musikfest Stuttgart, Bach Week Ansbach, European Music Weeks Festival in Passau, Rheingau Musik Festival, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and six concerts as part of a USA tour in Fort Lauderdale, Chapel Hill, Norfolk, Princeton, Los Angeles and Irvine. In 2018 the musicians of the Gaechinger Cantorey have already performed in the Dresden Kulturpalast, the Bach church in Arnstadt and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris. In May they tour South America with six concerts, and in June pay a visit to the Bachfest Leipzig to perform in a prominent ‘Cantatas ring’ (with conductors including Masaaki Suzuki, Ton Koopman and Sir John Eliot Gardiner).

The debut CD of the newly-constituted Gaechinger Cantorey ‘Erhalt uns, Herr, bei Deinem Wort’ with Reformation cantatas by J.S. Bach was released in May 2017 by Carus-Verlag in Stuttgart. The critics were enthusiastic: ‘The Gaechinger Cantorey with its new forces and direction is right up at the top amongst the ranks of German baroque ensembles.’ (kulturradio on rbb). Just a few months later in Septemer 2017, a DVD of the St Matthew Passion was released, and in October 2017 a new recording of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, both of which were also extremely well-received. For the future CD recordings of a programme of Bach cantatas, the fourth version of Bach’s St John Passion and G.F. Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum are planned.

Booklet for J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244