Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor Berlin

Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion BWV 244

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  Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

• RIAS Kammerchor

Really old and extremely lively: For many seasons now, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin has been demonstrating how thrilling music from the 17th to the early 19th century can sound in its own series at the Konzerthaus Berlin.Bach's „St Matthew Passion“ was premiered for the second time in 1829 - in the Singakademie building in Berlin, which is now home to the Maxim Gorki Theatre. The conductor was Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, who was only twenty years old. He paved the way for a Bach renaissance with the version he arranged and shortened. In the era of Viennese Classicism, Bach's music had simply hardly ever been performed. The Passion, however, which was first presented to the congregation of St Thomas' Church in Leipzig in 1727, is one of the most haunting musical depictions of the story of the crucifixion.

Johann Sebastian Bach - Matthäus-Passion BWV 244

Artists/Collaborators: Justin Doyle (Dirigent), Elisabeth Breuer (Sopran), Anna Lucia Richter (Mezzosopran), Patrick Grahl (Tenor (Evangelist)), Thomas Hobbs (Tenor), Matthew Brook (Bass (Jesus-Worte)), Stephan Loges (Bass)

Next date:

• Date Tuesday, 08/April/2025 19:00 bis 22:00
• Venue Konzerthaus Berlin - Großer Saal
• Address Gendarmenmarkt, 10117 Berlin-Mitte