Bach, J.S.: St. Matthew Passion

Jeffrey Skidmore

68 SONGS • 2 HOURS AND 37 MINUTES • NOV 19 2009

1

Part I: Come, you daughters, share my mourning (Chorus, Soprano)

06:18

2

Part I: Recitative: When Jesus had finished saying these things (Evangelist, Jesus)

00:35

3

Part I: Chorale: O blessed Jesu, how have you offended (Chorus)

00:42

4

Part I: Recitative: At that time there assembled all the chief (Evangelist, Chorus, Jesus)

02:57

5

Part I: Recitative: My master and my Lord (Alto 1)

00:53

6

Part I: Aria: Grief for sin reads the guilty heart within (Alto 1)

04:14

7

Part I: Recitative: Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas (Evangelist, Judas)

00:37

8

Part I: Aria: Break in grief, O loving heart (Soprano 2)

04:18

9

Part I: Recitative: On the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus (Evangelist, Chorus, Jesus)

02:01

10

Part I: Chorale: It's I whose sins have bound you (Chorus)

00:47

11

Part I: Recitative: He answered them and said (Evangelist, Jesus, Judas)

02:44

12

Part I: Recitative: Although our eyes with tears o'erflow (Soprano 1)

01:10

13

Part I: Aria: Jesu, Saviour, I am yours (Soprano 1)

03:15

14

Part I: Recitative: And after they had sung a hymn together (Evangelist, Jesus)

00:58

15

Part I: Chorale: Receive me, my Redeemer (Chorus)

00:51

16

Part I: Recitative: Simon Peter answered and said to him (Evangelist, Peter, Jesus)

01:04

17

Part I: Chorale: I want to stand beside you (Chorus)

00:54

18

Part I: Recitative: Then Jesus went with them to a garden called Gethsemane (Evangelist, Jesus)

01:28

19

Part I: Recitative: O Grief! What trembling of his heavy heart! (Tenor 1) - Chorale: My Saviour, why must all this trouble fall on you? (Chorus)

01:49

20

Part I: Aria: I would beside my Lord be watching (Tenor 1, Chorus)

04:50

21

Part I: Recitative: And going further, he threw himself on the ground (Evangelist, Jesus)

00:38

22

Part I: Recitative: The Saviour, low before his Father bending (Bass 2)

00:49

23

Part I: Aria: Never will I choose to leave him (Bass 2)

04:02

24

Part I: Recitative: Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping (Evangelist, Jesus)

01:16

25

Part I: Chorale: O Father, let your will be done (Chorus)

00:54

26

Part I: Recitative: Again he came and found them sleeping (Evangelist, Jesus, Judas)

02:20

27

Part I: Aria: My Saviour Jesus, now is taken (Soprano 1, Alto 1, Chorus)

04:40

28

Part I: Recitative: And suddenly, one of the disciples who were there with Jesus (Evangelist, Jesus)

02:14

29

Part I: Chorale: O World, your sinful ways lament (Chorus)

05:55

30

Part II: Aria: Ah! Now is my Saviour gone! (Alto 1, Chorus)

03:58

31

Part II: Recitative: And those who had arrested Jesus took him to the house of the high priest (Evangelist)

00:59

32

Part II: Chorale: How falsely does the world accuse! (Chorus)

00:37

33

Part II: Recitative: Though many false witnesses came forward (Evangelist, False Witnesses, High Priest)

01:05

34

Part II: Recitative: My Lord stays silent, though men accuse him falsely (Tenor 2)

01:01

35

Part II: Aria: Endure through lies and taunts and slander (Tenor 2)

03:41

36

Part II: Recitative: The high priest answered, and said to him (Evangelist, High Priest, Jesus, Chorus)

02:09

37

Part II: Chorale: O Lord, who dares to strike you (Chorus)

00:58

38

Part II: Recitative: Simon Peter was sitting in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him and said (Evangelist, First Maid, Peter, Second Maid, Chorus)

02:23

39

Part II: Aria: Have mercy, Lord on, me (Alto 1)

05:38

40

Part II: Chorale: Lamb of God, I fall before you (Chorus)

01:01

41

Part II: Recitative: Now when the morning came (Evangelist, Judas, Chorus, Chief Priests)

01:45

42

Part II: Aria: Give, O give me back my Saviour (Evangelist)

02:36

43

Part II: Recitative: After they had conferred together (Evangelist, Pilate, Jesus)

01:58

44

Part II: Chorale: Commit your way to Jesus (Chorus)

00:59

45

Part II: Recitative: Now on the feast day (Evangelist, Pilate, Pilate's Wife, Chorus)

02:28

46

Part II: Amazing love, this sacrifice to offer (Chorus)

00:46

47

Part II: Recitative: The Governor asked (Evangelist, Pilate)

00:17

48

Part II: Recitative: To all men Jesus has done good (Soprano 1)

01:01

49

Part II: Aria: For love my Saviour now is dying (Soprano 1)

04:45

50

Part II: Recitative: But they shouted all the more and said (Evangelist, Chorus, Pilate)

01:50

51

Part II: Recitative: Have pity, God! (Alto 2)

01:02

52

Part II: Aria: If my weeping and my wailing be unavailing (Alto 1)

06:44

53

Part II: Recitative: And then the Governor's soldiers took Jesus (Evangelist, Chorus)

01:02

54

Part II: O bleeding head, so wounded (Chorus)

02:09

55

Part II: And after they had mocked him (Evangelist)

00:51

56

Part II: Recitative: In truth our flesh and blood must be (Bass 1)

00:34

57

Part II: Come, healing Cross! (Bass 1)

06:21

58

Part II: Recitative: And when they came to a place called Golgotha (Evangelist, Chorus)

03:22

59

Part II: Recitative: Ah, Golgotha! Unhappy Golgotha! (Alto 1)

01:27

60

Part II: Aria: See it: see the Saviour's outstretched arm (Alto 1, Chorus)

02:52

61

Part II: Recitative: Now from the midday hour there fell a darkness (Evangelist, Jesus, Chorus)

02:11

62

Part II: Chorale: Be near me, Lord, when dying (Chorus)

01:23

63

Part II: And then, at once (Evangelist, Chorus)

02:37

64

Part II: Recitative: At evening, hour of calm and rest (Bass 1)

01:54

65

Part II: Aria: Cleanse yourself, my heart from sin (Bass 1)

05:30

66

Part II: Recitative: So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen (Evangelist, Chorus, Pilate)

02:23

67

Part II: Recitative: And now the Lord is laid to rest (Bass 1, Alto 1, Soprano 1, Chorus)

01:47

68

Part II: In tears of grief, dear Lord (Chorus)

05:53

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