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St Matthew’s Passion

Johann Sebastian Bach

25 and 28 March 1997

Salzburg (Grosses Festspielhaus) – Easter Festival

Sylvia McNair (Soprano)
Anne Sofie von Otter (Alto)
Peter Schreier (Evangelist and Tenor)
Simon Keenlyside (Jesus)
Andreas Macco (Baritone)
Peter Mattei (Baritone)

Swedish Radio Choir
Tölzer Knabenchor

 

Berliner Philharmonic


 

What the critics say

Der Standard, 27th March 1997  (Peter Cossé)

Discreet Praise of God

“St. Matthew Passion” as Easter present in Salzburg

.....Simon Keenlyside’s tenderly and well sung Jesus was biblically above all doubt....