Fifth of seven programmes tracing the evolution of the German vernacular Passion from the Reformation to Bach
This week: Handel
Brockes Passion
HAZEL HOLT (soprano)
MARGARET FIELD (soprano)
SHELAGH MOLYNEUX (mezzo-sop) TIMOTHY PENROSE (counter-tenor)
CHRISTOPHER BROWN (counter-tenor)
NEIL JENKINS (tenor)
COLIN WHEATLEY (bass-baritone) Eyangelist ....IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor) Jesus ....JOHN NOBLE (baritone) JOHN CONSTABLE (harpsichord) RALPH DOWNES ( organ) MARTIN GATT (bassoon)
BERNARD RICHARDS (Cello)
Philip SIMMS (double-bass) LONDON BACH SOCIETY
STEINITZ BACH PLAYERS leader PETER BENSON conductor PAUL STEINITZ Part 1
10.20* Reading
10.30* The German Passion Part 2
A concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 23 March by the Steinitz Bach Players in association with the BBC
(John Constable broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)