Location: Alice Tully Hall
1941 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
Admission: Free
Open to: General Public
Description: Masaaki Suzuki, conductor with Yale Baroque Ensemble
presented in collaboration with The Juilliard School with support from Yale School of Music.
Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion, composed in 1724, is often seen as the “little sister” of the grandiose St. Matthew Passion. However, the earlier work is a masterwork in its own right. Bach sets passion text from the gospel of John in highly dramatic fashion in a dense dialogue of recitatives, arias, and large scale choral movements. The suffering and death of Jesus Christ is depicted as an act of divine splendor and revelation; and in one aria it even gives a short glimpse of the glory of Easter morning.
Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion, composed in 1724, is often seen as the “little sister” of the grandiose St. Matthew Passion. However, the earlier work is a masterwork in its own right. Bach sets passion text from the gospel of John in highly dramatic fashion in a dense dialogue of recitatives, arias, and large scale choral movements. The suffering and death of Jesus Christ is depicted as an act of divine splendor and revelation; and in one aria it even gives a short glimpse of the glory of Easter morning.