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Sunday Worship: The Passion

The Passion

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Marking the tercentenary of the first performance of Bach's St John Passion.

300 years after Bach's St John Passion was first performed, Gareth Malone leads his own production with BBC Singers and National Orchestra of Wales. Led by Bishop Jo Bailey Wells.

On Good Friday 1724, Bach's setting of the Passion narrative from St John's gospel was performed for the first time in Leipzig's Nikolaikirche. Three hundred years later Gareth Malone leads his own production with the BBC Singers and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The most dramatic moments from Bach's masterpiece are interspersed with excerpts from the Wintershall Passion, presented each Good Friday since 2010 by the WIntershall Players in London's Trafalgar Square.  These two different tellings of the story of Christ’s death in music and drama are brought together with reflections by Bishop for Episcopal Ministry in the Anglican Communion Dr Jo Bailey Wells. Producer: Andrew Earis.

Then BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Singers, with Gareth Malone – Conductor, Roderick Williams – Baritone, Nicholas Mulroy – Tenor.  Additional chorus members: Evan Hancock, Simon Askey, Samar Small, Jake Sawyers, Joy Dando, Astrid Titus-Glover, Annette Leponis, Rhiannon Chard.  Music mix: Andrew Smillie.

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