Bachchor Meinz/Otto - Johann Sebastian Bach: St. John Passion

Johann Sebastian Bach�s St John Passion is, along with the St Matthew Passion, without doubt one of the most important works he ever composed. It established a new tradition for Good Friday vespers in Leipzig, and with sublime skill Bach managed to retain a spirit of church worship while creating an almost operatic narrative that movingly depicts Christ�s trial, death, and ultimate apotheosis. Bach�s numerous revisions always demand a certain amount of scholarly decision-making, and this recording of the St John Passion uses the final 1749 version that not only draws on and reinforces the best of Bach�s original concept, but incorporates the additional movements of the 1725 version.