Passiontide: JS Bach's 'St John Passion'

The Choir of Merton College
Oxford Baroque

Rogers Covey-Crump Evangelist
Giles Underwood Christus
Elin Manahan Thomas soprano
Jeremy Kenyon alto
Joel Williams tenor
Henry Neill bass
Benjamin Nicholas conductor

Perhaps the most expressive and immediate of Bach’s Passion settings, the St John Passion’s vivid account of the suffering and death of Jesus Christ finds Bach at his most operatic. A distinguished group of soloists joined the College Choir and the period Oxford-based ensemble, Oxford Baroque.