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BACH: The Great Passion

Duration: 1 hour, 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Bach rehearses the first performance of his St Matthew Passion. But his choir and his musicians make exhausting demands on him, threatening to derail this gargantuan undertaking. Show more

Contributors

Johann Sebastian Bach:
Simon Russell Beale
Anna Magdalena Bach:
Melody Grove
Christian Henrici (Picander):
Al Weaver
Stefan Meissner:
Adam Greaves Neal
Paul Christian Stolle:
Stephen Boxer
Salomon Deyling:
David Horovitch
Johann Gottlieb Gorner:
Tom Goodman-Hill
Bach's Child:
Damon Denton-Snape
Producer:
Marilyn Imrie

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