Les musiciens du Louvre ; Marc Minkowski, conductor. Recorded 14-19 April 2014 and live on 15 April 2014 at the Chapelle de la Trinite, Lyon, France.
Contents:
Disc 1. Erster teil part one, premiere partie -- Disc 2. Zweiter teil part two, deuxieme partie.
Summary:
"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"--warnerclassics.com.
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