Good Friday Archive

REINHARD KEISER: St. Mark Passion – Soloists/ Ens. Jacques Moderne/ Gli Incogniti/ Joel Suhubiette – Mirare
The St. Mark Passion we wish Bach had written. REINHARD KEISER: St. Mark Passion (Bergmann Ed.) –Jan Kobow (Evangelist)/ Thomas E. Bauer (Jesus)/ Ens. Jacques Moderne/ Gli Incogniti/ Joel Suhubiette – Mirare MIR 254, 77 min. [Distr. by Harmonia mundi] ****: It was the castle chapel at Weimar at Good Friday in 1712 or 1713 […]

“Good Friday in Jerusalem: Medieval Byzantine Chant from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre” – Cappella Romana/ Alexander Lingas – Cappella Romana
Cappella Romana continues their standard-setting course of Byzantine recordings.
J.S. BACH: St. Mark Passion – Dominique Horwitz, voice/ Amarcord/ Kölner Akademie/ Michael Alexander Willens, conductor – Carus
Scholars can’t resist exhuming the St. Mark Passion, and this one is as successful as any.