Bach, Johannespassion (St John Passion), BWV 245

“A simmering performance that lives up to the high expectations”, wrote the NY Times of the Bach St John Passion presented by the great American director Peter Sellars and star conductor Simon Rattle in the Berlin Philharmonie. In Sellars' staging “Bach's gestures of lament are physically echoed” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). The semicircular stage of the Berlin Philharmonie is transformed into a magically charged space: musicians from the right, choir from the left keep pressing into the centre, where the heart of the action is located: in the feeble light of a single lamp hanging from the ceiling, the Evangelist and the other soloists play out a piece of chamber theatre. “The paradox of a staging for the concert hall is thus realized” (Berliner Zeitung).

Composer:	Johann Sebastian Bach
Title:	Bach, Johannespassion (St John Passion), BWV 245
Conductor:	Simon Rattle
Staged By:	Peter Sellars
Soloist:	Camilla Tilling, Magdalena Kožená, Topi Lehtipuu, Mark Padmore, Roderick Williams, Christian Gerhaher
Orchestra:	Berliner Philharmoniker
Chorus:	Rundfunkchor Berlin
Video Director:	Daniel Finkernagel, Alexander Lück
Genre:	Concert
Length:	135 minutes
Cat.No.:	A05050158