The King's Consort
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Choir of The King's Consort
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Robert King
conductor
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Jan Kobow
Evangelist
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Ben Davies
Christ
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Julia Doyle
soprano
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Diana Moore
contralto
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Joshua Ellicott
tenor
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David Wilson-Johnson
bass
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
"St Matthew Passion", BWV 244
'This week I listened three times to the divine Bach's “St. Matthew Passion”, each time with the same feeling of measureless amazement. Anyone who has fully forgotten the Christian faith will truly hear it like a gospel in this work.' Thus Friedrich Nietzsche, writing in early 1870. Superlatives are never in short supply when conversation turns to Bach's incomparable setting of the Passion story – to its dramatic, moving, human message, to its harrowing, contemplative, unflinching music. The British ensemble The King's Consort, with its founder Robert King and a star-studded group of soloists will perform this ne plus ultra of the Easter season in Lucerne. 'Ancient cathedral choir tradition and historically informed performance practice', to quote the 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung', are felicitously united in the performances of these musicians: 'The orchestra matches the uncommonly cultivated choral sound, dovetailing perfectly in period aesthetic, elegance and sensuality.'
A project funded by the Zürich Versicherungs-Gesellschaft AG.