Sir Simon Rattle
Friday
19
November 2021
6:00 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal
Special concert
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
“St. Matthew Passion”, BWV 244
Performers
Sir Simon Rattle
conductor
Camilla Tilling
soprano
Magdalena Kožená
mezzo-soprano
Mark Padmore
tenor
Andrew Staples
tenor
Georg Nigl
baritone
Roderick Williams
baritone
Augsburger Domsingknaben
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Concert video
Information about the programme
“The Mount Everest of music”: that’s what American stage director Peter Sellar’s once called Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Now Simon Rattle will scale this summit of western music with his future Munich ensembles, the BRSO and the Bavarian Radio Chorus. The choice team of vocal soloists likewise raises expectations. A key role is conferred upon the Evangelist, who not only relates the story of the Passion, but participates in and responds to it inwardly as a witness. With British tenor Mark Padmore this part will be taken by one of the most charismatic Evangelists of our time. For the BRSO it marks a happy reunion with a longstanding artistic friend – and a former artist-in-residence.
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