Tracklist

  • CD 1: Part 1
  • 1
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorus: Come ye daughters, share my mourning
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    8:34
  • 2
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: When Jesus had completed all these sayings
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:51
  • 3
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorale: O blessed Jesu, how hast thou offended?
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:55
  • 4
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: At that time there assembled the chief priests
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:26
  • 5
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorus: Not upon the feast
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:17
  • 6
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: Now when Jesus was in Bethany
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:35
  • 7
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorus: To what purpose is this waste?
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:33
  • 8
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: When Jesus understood it
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:38
  • 9
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: My Master and my Lord
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:03
  • 10
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Contralto Aria: Grief for sin
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    4:52
  • 11
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: Then went one of the disciples
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:41
  • 12
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Soprano Aria: Break in grief
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    5:21
  • 13
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: Now on the first day of the unleavened bread
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:13
  • 14
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorus: Where wilt thou?
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:23
  • 15
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recit & Chorus: He said, Go to one in the city yonder
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:57
  • 16
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorale: Tis I, whose sins have bound thee
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:57
  • 17
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: He answered then and said
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    3:31
  • 18
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: Although our eyes with tears o'erflow
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:27
  • 19
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Soprano Aria: Jesus, Saviour, I am thine
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    3:57
  • 20
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: And after they had sung an hymn together
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:13
  • 21
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorale: Receive me, my Redeemer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:04
  • 22
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: Simon Peter made answer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:15
  • 23
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorale: Here would I stand beside them
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:08
  • 24
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: Then came Jesus with them
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    2:16
  • 25
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Tenor Solo with Chorus: O grief! how throbs His heavy-laden breast
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    2:13
  • 26
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Tenor Solo with Chorus: I would beside my Lord be watching
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    5:34
  • CD 2: Part 1 (continued), Part 2
  • 1
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: And he went away
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:50
  • 2
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: The Saviour, low before His Father bending
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:08
  • 3
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Bass Aria: Gladly would I take upon me
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    4:26
  • 4
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: And he came to his disciples
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:30
  • 5
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorale: O Father, let thy will be done
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:15
  • 6
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: And he came again and found them sleeping
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    2:33
  • 7
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Duet & Chorus: Behold, my Saviour now is taken
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    4:54
  • 8
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: And behold, one of the others that were there with Jesus
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    2:34
  • 9
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorus: O man, thy grievous sin bemoan
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    6:56
  • 10
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Contralto Aria with Chorus: Ah! now is my Saviour gone
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    4:33
  • 11
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: And they that had laid hold on Jesus
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:02
  • 12
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorale: How falsely doth the world accuse!
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:56
  • 13
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: Yea, though many lying witnesses came forward
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:23
  • 14
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: He holds his peace though men accuse him falsely
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:05
  • 15
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Tenor Aria: Endure, endure
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    3:44
  • 16
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative with Chorus: And the high priest answered and said unto him
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:43
  • 17
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative with Chorus: And then with one accord did they spit in his face
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:39
  • 18
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorale: O Lord, who dares to smite Thee?
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:55
  • 19
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative with Chorus: Simon Peter sat outside the court
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:11
  • 20
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: And then began he to curse and to swear
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:26
  • 21
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Contralto Aria: Have mercy, Lord, on me
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    6:44
  • 22
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorale: Lamb of God, I fall before Thee
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:09
  • 23
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative with Chorus: Now when the morning came
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:56
  • 24
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: And he cast the silver pieces down in the temple
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:57
  • 25
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Bass Aria: Give, O give me back my Lord
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    3:35
  • 26
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: And they took counsel together
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    2:18
  • 27
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorale: Commit thy way to Jesus
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:11
  • CD 3: Part 2 (continued)
  • 1
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative with Chorus: At that feast then
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    2:29
  • 2
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorale: O wondrous love, that suffers this correction!
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:55
  • 3
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: The governor answered
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:15
  • 4
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: To all men Jesus good hath done
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:17
  • 5
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Soprano Aria: For love my Saviour now is dying
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    5:14
  • 6
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative with Chorus: But they cried out the more
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    2:23
  • 7
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: O gracious God!
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:19
  • 8
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Contralto Aria: If my tears be unavailing
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    7:46
  • 9
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative with Chorus: And then did the soldiers of the governor
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:30
  • 10
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorale: O Sacred Head surrounded by crown of piercing thorn
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    2:28
  • 11
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: And after they had mocked at him
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:28
  • 12
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: In truth, to bear the cross
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:42
  • 13
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Bass Aria: Come, healing cross
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    7:09
  • 14
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative with Chorus: And when they came unto the place that is called Golgotha
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    3:51
  • 15
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: The same was cast in His teeth by the robbers
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    0:16
  • 16
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: Ah Golgotha! Unhappy Golgotha!
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:47
  • 17
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Contralto Aria with Chorus: See ye! See the Saviour's outstretched hands!
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    3:48
  • 18
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative with Chorus: Now from the sixth hour
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    2:46
  • 19
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorale: Be near me Lord, when dying
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    1:44
  • 20
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative with Chorus: And then, behold, the veil of the temple was rent
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    3:06
  • 21
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative: At evening, hour of calm and peace
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    2:31
  • 22
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Bass Aria: Make thee clean, my heart, from sin
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    6:48
  • 23
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative with Chorus: And Joseph took the body
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    2:50
  • 24
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Recitative with Chorus: And now the Lord to rest is laid
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    2:18
  • 25
    St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Chorus: In tears of grief, dear Lord, we leave thee
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    7:09

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