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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – St Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Performers
Mark Padmore – tenor
Christian Gerhaher – baritone
Camilla Tilling – soprano
Magdalena Kozená – mezzo-soprano
Topi Lehtipuu – tenor
Eric Owens – bass-baritone
Sir Simon Rattle – Conductor
Berlin Radio Choir
Berliner Philharmoniker
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Peter Sellars’s innovative staging of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. While the dramatic St John Passion (heard earlier this season) is all musical action and reaction, the St Matthew is altogether more contemplative - confronting suffering and torture as well as salvation and redemption in some of Bach’s most moving music.
A starry line-up of soloists is led by Mark Padmore’s Evangelist, and includes celebrated German baritone Christian Gerhaher singing the words of Christ.
There will be one interval