Classical Sunday: Bach’s Passion of St. John

Johann Sebastian Bach:  St John Passion, BWV 245

The video is starting at 6:20 to cut out the yap-yap in the beginning.  I love this particular recording.  Just the right thing for Passion Sunday.  Two weeks to go until Easter…

Performers:

James Gilchrist, tenor (Evangelist)
Neal Davies, bass-baritone (Christus)
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Clint van der Linde, counter-tenor
Joshua Ellicott, tenor
Hanno Müller-Brachmann, bass-baritone

Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Zurich Chamber Orchestra
Sir Roger Norrington, conductor

Recorded on Saturday 26 July, 2014 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, GB