I have to follow up this morning's post with a website I found as I browsed for performances of the St. Matthew Passion. This is a group of Dutch musicians who have created a project called "All of Bach". This link shows a filming of the entire piece, and you can navigate to different pieces using the drop down menu. My suggestions:
65
66b
60
49 (if you're in the mood to cry - this one is so heart-wrenching. It's Mary Magdalene saying "For love my savior now is dying.")
To find my favorite chorale, navigate to 2:03:00 and keep listening.
listening And this delightful paragraph about March Madness counterpart in The Netherlands. I hope they're not exaggerating, this sounds so wonderful:
The ‘Dutch’ passionWhether or not they are lovers of classical music, practically everyone in the Netherlands knows the St Matthew Passion. Every year, there is a real ‘Matthew madness’ in the month before Easter. Each town has its own performance and any reasonably large concert hall has at least two or three. The first performance of the St Matthew Passion in the Netherlands was in Rotterdam in 1870. Amsterdam followed suit in 1874. With the Concertgebouw orchestra, Willem Mengelberg then instituted a Passion tradition in Amsterdam that still continues today. In reaction to the Mengelberg performances, the Netherlands Bach Society was formed in 1921. The founders thought that the St Matthew should be performed where it belonged – in a church. The annual performance by the Bach Society in Naarden grew to become ‘the’ Dutch St Matthew Passion.
The ‘Dutch’ passionWhether or not they are lovers of classical music, practically everyone in the Netherlands knows the St Matthew Passion. Every year, there is a real ‘Matthew madness’ in the month before Easter. Each town has its own performance and any reasonably large concert hall has at least two or three. The first performance of the St Matthew Passion in the Netherlands was in Rotterdam in 1870. Amsterdam followed suit in 1874. With the Concertgebouw orchestra, Willem Mengelberg then instituted a Passion tradition in Amsterdam that still continues today. In reaction to the Mengelberg performances, the Netherlands Bach Society was formed in 1921. The founders thought that the St Matthew should be performed where it belonged – in a church. The annual performance by the Bach Society in Naarden grew to become ‘the’ Dutch St Matthew Passion.
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