Bach: St John Passion Marc Minkowski

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Album info

Album-Release:
2017

HRA-Release:
24.03.2017

Label: Erato/Warner Classics, Warner Classics UK Ltd

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

Artist: Marc Minkowski

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

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  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750):
  • 1Part 1: No. 1 "Herr, unser Herrscher" (Chorus)08:02
  • 2Part 1: No. 2 "Jesus ging mit seinen Jüngern... Jesus antwortete" (Evangelist, Jesus, Chorus)02:09
  • 3Part 1: No. 3 "O grosse Lieb" (Chorus)00:43
  • 4Part 1: No. 4 "Auf dass das Wort erfüllet würde" (Evangelist, Jesus)00:59
  • 5Part 1: No. 5 "Dein Will gescheh, Herr Gott, zugleich" (Chorus)00:44
  • 6Part 1: No. 6 "Die Schar aber und der Oberhauptmann" (Evangelist)00:40
  • 7Part 1: No. 7 "Von den Stricken meiner Sünden" (Alto)04:20
  • 8Part 1: No. 8 "Simon Petrus aber folgete Jesu nach" (Evangelist)00:12
  • 9Part 1: No. 9 "Ich folge dir gleichfalls" (Soprano)03:22
  • 10Part 1: No. 10 "Derselbige Jünger war dem Hohenpriester bekannt" (Evangelist, Ancilla, Petrus, Jesus, Servus)02:48
  • 11Part 1: No. 11 "Wer hat dich so geschlagen" (Chorus)01:27
  • 12Part 1: No. 12 "Und Hannas sandte ihn gebunden.... Er leugnete aber und sprach" (Evangelist, Petrus, Servus, Chorus)01:41
  • 13Part 1: No. 13 "Ach, mein Sinn" (Tenor)02:13
  • 14Part 1: No. 14 "Petrus, der nicht denkt zurück" (Chorus)01:27
  • 15Part 1: No. 11 bis "Himmel reisse, Welt erbebe" (Bass, Chorus)03:48
  • 16Part 1: No. 13 bis: "Zerschmettert mich, ihr Felsen und ihr Hügel" (Tenor)04:32
  • 17Part 2: No. 15 "Christus, der uns selig macht" (Chorus)01:01
  • 18Part 2: No. 16 "Da führeten sie Jesum... Auf dass erfüllet würde das Wort" (Evangelist, Pilatus, Jesus, Chorus)03:41
  • 19Part 2: No. 17 "Ach grosser König" (Chorus)01:17
  • 20Part 2: No. 18 "Da sprach Pilatus zu ihm.... Barrabas aber war ein Mörder" (Evangelist, Pilatus, Jesus, Chorus)01:49
  • 21Part 2: No. 19 "Betrachte, meine Seel" (Bass)02:29
  • 22Part 2: No. 20 "Erwäge, wie sein blutgefärbter Rücken" (Tenor)01:03
  • 23Part 2: No. 21 "Und die Kriegsknechte flochten eine Krone... Da Pilatus das Wort hörete" (Evangelist, Pilatus, Jesus, Chorus)04:51
  • 24Part 2: No. 22 "Durch dein Gefängnis, Gottes Sohn" (Chorus)00:47
  • 25Part 2: No. 23 "Die Jüden aber schrieen und sprachen... Da überantwortete er ihn" (Evangelist, Pilatus, Chorus)03:35
  • 26Part 2: No. 24 "Eilt, ihr angefochtnen Seelen" (Bass)03:23
  • 27Part 2: No. 25 "Allda kreuzigten sie ihn... Pilatus antwortet" (Evangelist, Pilatus, Chorus)02:03
  • 28Part 2: No. 26 "In meines Herzens Grunde" (Chorus)00:56
  • 29Part 2: No. 27 "Die Kriegsknechte aber... Auf dass erfüllet würde die Schrift" (Evangelist, Jesus, Chorus)03:23
  • 30Part 2: No. 28 "Er nahm alles wohl in Acht" (Chorus)01:03
  • 31Part 2: No. 29 "Und von Stund an nahm sie der Jünger zu sich" (Evangelist, Jesus)01:13
  • 32Part 2: No. 30 "Es ist vollbracht" (Alto)04:36
  • 33Part 2: No. 31 "Und neiget das Haupt" (Evangelist)00:25
  • 34Part 2: No. 32 "Mein teurer Heiland, lass dich fragen" (Bass, Chorus)04:05
  • 35Part 2: No. 33 "Und siehe da, der Vorhang im Tempel zerriss" (Evangelist)00:25
  • 36Part 2: No. 34 "Mein Herz, in dem die ganze Welt" (Tenor)00:47
  • 37Part 2: No. 35 "Zerfliesse, mein Herze" (Soprano)06:40
  • 38Part 2: No. 36 "Die Jüden aber, dieweil es der Rüsttag war" (Evangelist)01:52
  • 39Part 2: No. 37 "O hilf, Christe, Gottes Sohn" (Chorus)01:03
  • 40Part 2: No. 38 "Darnach bat Pilatum Joseph von Arimathia" (Evangelist)01:58
  • 41Part 2: No. 39 "Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine" (Chorus)07:44
  • 42Part 2: No. 40 "Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein" (Chorus)02:02
  • Total Runtime01:43:18

Info for Bach: St John Passion



The foundations of Marc Minkowski’s career lie in Baroque music, and he has enjoyed a long relationship with Warner Classics, but this Johannes-Passion (St John Passion) is his first Bach for the label. The work’s terse drama – here presented through just nine singers – is ideally suited to both his scrupulous musicianship and his keen sense of theatre. The French conductor describes Bach’s great masterpieces as “a journey you have to prepare for meticulously, over a long period of time… You come back from it like an explorer comes back from Everest or the Moon – transformed.”

Lothar Odinius, tenor (Evangelista, No.13)
Christian Immler, bass (Jesus, Nos 11b, 32)
Ditte Andersen, soprano (Ancilla, No.9)
Lenneke Ruiten, soprano (No.35)
Delphine Galou, alto (No.30)
David Hansen, alto (No.7)
Colin Balzer, tenor (Servus, Nos 20, 24, 34)
Valerio Contaldo, tenor (No.13b)
Felix Speer, bass (Petrus, Pilatus, No.19)
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski, direction



Marc Minkowski
Minkowski’s opera career developed rapidly and since 1996 Mozart’s operas have held a favoured place in his musical life: Idomeneo at the Paris Opera, Abduction from the Seraglio and Mitridate at the Salzburg Festival, Le Nozze di Figaro at the Aix-en-Provence festival in Tokyo and Toronto, The Magic Flute in Bochum, Madrid and Paris, and Don Giovanni in Toronto.

French opera is also fundamental to him, and he has performed popular works from this repertoire such as Manon (Monte Carlo), The Tales of Hoffmann (Lausanne, Lyon), Carmen (Paris, Bremen), and Pelléas et Mélisande which, in 2007, he conducted the first performance of this show in Russia (the preparatory work with Olivier Py on this production has been filmed by Philippe Béziat: Le Chant des aveugles, released in March 2009), he conduct. He has also presented Boieldieu’s La Dame Blanche at the Opéra-Comique, Auber’s Le Domino Noir at La Fenice, Massenet’s Cendrillon at Flanders Opera, Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable at the Berlin State Opera, and Offenbach productions with the stage director Laurent Pelly in Paris, Lyon, Geneva and Lausanne, Platée (third time in December 2009 at the Paris Opera in the unforgettable staging of Laurent Pelly).

From 2004 Marc Minkowski has regularly been invited to the Paris Opera where in June 2006 he conducted a new production of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride which attracted intense critical acclaim, particularly for the contribution of his own orchestra, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble. In 2007, again with his own orchestra and again by proposing the creation of a “new” sonority on period instruments, he scored a significant triumph in a new production of Carmen which he conducted at the Châtelet Theatre in Paris. Since 2003 he has a special relationship with Zurich Opera, where he has conducted Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo and Giulio Cesare, Donizetti’s La Favorite and Rameau’s Les Boréades de Rameau as well as Fidelio (2007) and Agrippina (2009). Future seasons will see him conduct Paris Opera, the Châtelet, the Opéra comique, La Monnaie, the Zurich opera as well as the Netherlands opera in Amsterdam.

Amongst the great opera singers with whom he has regularly worked are Cecilia Bartoli, Felicity Lott, Anne-Sophie von Otter, Magdalena Kozena or Mireille Delunsch amongst others. With Les Musiciens du Louvre • Grenoble he has continued to open up and explore the symphonic repertoire, a repertoire which now occupies an increasingly important place in his conducting activities elsewhere as well. In 2006 and 2008 he toured Europe with Les Musiciens du Louvre • Grenoble, presenting the twelve London Symphonies of Haydn, as well as a tour to South America in October 2006 with Mozart’s final two symphonies (40 and 41). In addition to Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms, he devotes himself to defending the works of the great French composers such as Berlioz, Bizet, Chausson, Franck, Debussy, Fauré, Roussel, Poulenc, Greif and Lili Boulanger.

Recent guest conducting engagements include the Staatskapelle Dresden, Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Deutschs Symphonie Orchester, the National Orchestra of Spain and the Cleveland Orchestra with whom he has a special relationship and who have invited him back for the current season. In 2007 he signed a contract with the French record label Naïve, and a first recording of Bizet’s Arlésienne and extracts from Carmen (released in march 2008), Bach’s Mass in B minor (released in december 2008). His album Tribute to Saint Cecilia registered at MC2 Grenoble in January is published in autumn.

Previously, he made numerous recordings for the Deutsche Grammophon, Erato and EMI-Virgin labels. (Une symphonie imaginaire by Rameau, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein by Offenbach and Opera proibita with Cecilia Bartoli, Symphonies No. 40 and 41 by Mozart, an album dedicated to the romantic works of Offenbach and a DVD of the Salzburg performances of Mitridate). The 2009/2010 season is rich in important events. In September 2009, Marc Minkowski opens the first season of the Paris Opera under the direction of Nicolas Joel, with a new production of Charles Gounod's Mireille. He directs Les Musiciens du Louvre • Grenoble at the gala concert marking the reopening of the royal Opera of Versailles while pursuing to be the musical director of the Sinfonia Varsovia which he is named in June 2008.

In January 2010, he resumed Idomeneo at the Salzburg Festival in the staging of Olivier Py, and in concert version in Grenoble and in Lyon. He has received invitations with the Orchestra of the Finnish Radio in February 2010 and he will lead a new production of Don Quixote at La Monnaie in May 2010.

In 2004, Marc Minkowski was named Chevalier du Mérite by the French President.

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