Pablo Casals & Prades Festival Orchestra and Choir - J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 (Live) (Remastered) (2024)

The Passio secundum Joannem or St John Passion BWV 245, is a Passion or oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, the earliest of the surviving Passions by Bach. It was written during his first year as director of church music in Leipzig and was first performed on 7 April 1724, at Good Friday Vespers at the St. Nicholas Church.

The structure of the work falls in two halves, intended to flank a sermon. The anonymous libretto draws on existing works (notably by Barthold Heinrich Brockes) and is compiled from recitatives and choruses narrating the Passion of Christ as told in the Gospel of John, ariosos and arias reflecting on the action, and chorales using hymn tunes and texts familiar to a congregation of Bach's contemporaries.[4] Compared with the St Matthew Passion, the St John Passion has been described as more extravagant, with an expressive immediacy, at times more unbridled and less "finished".

The work is most often heard today in the 1739–1749 version (never performed during Bach's lifetime). Bach first performed the oratorio in 1724 and revised it in 1725, 1730, and 1749, adding several numbers. "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß", a 1725 replacement for the opening chorus, found a new home in the 1736 St Matthew Passion but several arias from the revisions are found only in the appendices to modern editions.

Tracklist
01 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 1, Herr, unser Herrscher (Remastered 2024) (Live)
02 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 2, Jesus ging mit seinen Jüngern (Remastered 2024) (Live)
03 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 3, O große Lieb (Remastered 2024) (Live)
04 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 4, Auf daß das Wort erfüllet würde (Remastered 2024) (Live)
05 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 5, Dein Will gescheh, Herr Gott, zugleich (Remastered 2024) (Live)
06 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 6, Die Schar aber und der Oberhauptmann (Remastered 2024) (Live)
07 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 7, Von den Stricken meiner Sünden (Remastered 2024) (Live)
08 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 9, Ich folge dir gleichfalls mit freudigen Schritten (Remastered 2024) (Live)
09 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 10, Derselbige Jünger war dem Hohenpriester bekannt (Remastered 2024) (Live)
10 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 11, Wer hat dich so geschlagen (Remastered 2024) (Live)
11 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 12a, Und Hannas sandte ihn gebunden zu dem Hohenpriester Kaiphas (Remastered 2024) (Live)
12 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 12c, Er leugnete aber (Remastered 2024) (Live)
13 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 13, Ach, mein Sinn (Remastered 2024) (Live)
14 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 14, Petrus, der nicht denkt zurück (Remastered 2024) (Live)
15 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 15, Christus, der uns selig macht (Remastered 2024) (Live)
16 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 16, Da führeten sie Jesum (Remastered 2024) (Live)
17 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 17, Ach großer König, groß zu allen Zeiten (Remastered 2024) (Live)
18 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 18, Da sprach Pilatus zu ihm (Remastered 2024) (Live)
19 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 19, Betrachte, meine Seel, mit ängstlichem Vergnügen (Remastered 2024) (Live)
20 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 20, Erwäge, wie sein blutgefärbter Rücken (Remastered 2024) (Live)
21 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 21, Und die Kriegsknechte flochten eine Krone von Dornen (Remastered 2024)
22 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 22, Durch dein Gefängnis, Gottes Sohn muß uns die Freiheit kommen (Remastered 2024) (Live)
23 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 23, Die Jüden aber schrieen (Remastered 2024) (Live)
24 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 24, Eilt, ihr angefochtnen Seelen (Remastered 2024) (Live)
25 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 25, Allda kreuzigten sie ihn (Remastered 2024) (Live)
26 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 26, In meines Herzens Grunde (Remastered 2024) (Live)
27 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 27a, Die Kriegsknechte aber (Remastered 2024) (Live)
28 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 27b, Lasset uns den nicht zerteilen (Remastered 2024) (Live)
29 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 27c, Auf daß erfüllet würde die Schrift (Remastered 2024) (Live)
30 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 28, Er nahm alles wohl in acht (Remastered 2024) (Live)
31 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 29, Und von Stund an nahm sie der Jünger zu sich (Remastered 2024) (Live)
32 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 30, Es ist vollbracht! (Remastered 2024) (Live)
33 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 31, Und neiget das Haupt und verschied (Remastered 2024) (Live)
34 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 32, Mein teurer Heiland (Remastered 2024) (Live)
35 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 33, Und siehe da, der Vorhang im Tempel zeriß in zwei Stück (Remastered 2024) (Live)
36 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 34, Mein Herz, in dem die ganze Welt (Remastered 2024) (Live)
37 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 35, Zerfließe, mein Herze (Remastered 2024) (Live)
38 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 37, O hilf, Christe, Gottes Sohn (Remastered 2024) (Live)
39 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 38, Es war aber an der Stätte (Remastered 2024) (Live)
40 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 39, Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine (Remastered 2024) (Live)
41 - St. John Passion, BWV 245_ No. 40, Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein (Remastered 2024) (Live)