Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion BWV 244
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion BWV 244
Really old and extremely lively: For many seasons now, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin has been demonstrating how thrilling music from the 17th to the early 19th century can sound in its own series at the Konzerthaus Berlin.
Bach's „St Matthew Passion“ was premiered for the second time in 1829 - in the Singakademie building in Berlin, which is now home to the Maxim Gorki Theatre. The conductor was Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, who was only twenty years old. He paved the way for a Bach renaissance with the version he arranged and shortened. In the era of Viennese Classicism, Bach's music had simply hardly ever been performed. The Passion, however, which was first presented to the congregation of St Thomas' Church in Leipzig in 1727, is one of the most haunting musical depictions of the story of the crucifixion.
Concert program
Johann Sebastian Bach - Matthäus-Passion BWV 244
Duration
3 hours
Web
Cast
Konzerthaus Berlin
Stage:
Großer Saal
Gendarmenmarkt
10117 Berlin
Tickets at the box office
tickets 27 / 33 / 44 / 54 / 64 / 75 Euro
Konzerthaus Berlin