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About Wounds – Passion Concert

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Two great Passion settings by Johann Sebastian Bach, the St. Matthew Passion and the St. John Passion, are considered to be among the cornerstones of western music. Another, following the Gospel of Mark, has remained lost to the day. How might it have sounded? Over the past decades, many experts have attempted to reconstruct the St. Mark Passion. While this initially may seem like the search for sunken Atlantis, the philosopher’s stone, or the Holy Grail, from the perspective of musical practice it is actually not so different from what Bach himself did on a regular basis: creative secondary use. Many of his chorales or arias can be spotted more than once in his catalogue of works – usually with a different text and sometimes in an entirely different context. This baroque practice is known as musical parody, and it works both ways: Ton Koopman, one of the world’s foremost Bach performers, decided to start over: In tireless research, he examined works by the great master, trying to find out whether they might serve as musical setting for the words of Mark’s Gospel.

Wounds

Herbert Blomstedt

Munich Residence

St. John Passion

Église Saint-Astier

Leipzig (DE) : ABO&C - Bach Festival

St. Nicholas Church

Taking part in the series of chorale cantata performances by Bach choirs from all over the world is the world-famous conductor and president of the Leipzig Bach Archive, Ton Koopman. With his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, he will present eight selected cantatas portraying the master chorale writer Bach at different periods in his career. The programme includes Bach’s earliest chorale cantata, »Christ lag in Todesbanden« (»Christ lay in the snares of death«), written in Mühlhausen around 1707, as well as the moving »Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid« (»Ah God, how much heartbreak«) from 1725 and the magnificent nine-verse chorale »In allen meinen Taten« (»In all my deeds«), which Bach composed in 1734.

The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach reflect a richness of culture that has no parallel in European musical history: More than two hundred works filled with melodic invention, masterful polyphony, stirring choral writing and poignant arias which, to this day, continue to bring joy, inspiration and an occasion for reflection to musicians and audiences all over the world. The Prague Spring will this year host Ton Koopman, one of the greatest authorities on Bach who, together with his ensembles, will present three works in the genre.

Tenor

Tilman Lichdi

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Apr 18, 2025

About Wounds – Passion Concert · Kölner Philharmonie

Apr 18, 2025

Wounds · Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne

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Singer in St Mark Passion by Bach

Kölner Philharmonie

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