About this concert
Bach’s St John Passion, first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday 1724, tells the story of the Passion through the Gospel of John, with chorales for the congregation and dramatic crowd choruses. The choir performed it at St. Rita Church in the Maronite Patriarchate in Heliopolis.
Programme
- Work
- J.S. Bach, St John Passion
About the music
Johann Sebastian Bach, St John Passion, BWV 245
- First performed on Good Friday, 7 April 1724, in St Nicholas Church, Leipzig, in Bach’s first year as the city’s director of church music.
- Tells the Passion from chapters 18 and 19 of the Gospel of John, with the Evangelist narrating, arias reflecting on the story and chorales on familiar hymn tunes.
- Bach revised it in 1725, around 1730 and in 1749.
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