Bach: Matthäus passion, sacred oratorio, BWV 244 | Raphaël Pichon & Ensemble Pygmalion

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Bach: Matthäus passion, sacred oratorio, BWV 244
00:00:00 - Kuhnau: Tristis est anima mea | Motet
00:04:55 - Bach: Matthäus passion, BWV 244 | Part I
01:09:20 - Gallus: Ecce quomodo moritur justus
01:12:30 - Matthäus passion BWV 244 | Part II
Julian Prégardien | Evangelist
Stéphane Degout | Jesus & bass I
Christian Immler | Pilate & bass II
Sabine Devieilhe, Maïlys de Villoutreys | Sopranos
Damien Guillon, Lucile Richardot | Altos
Samuel Boden, Thomas Hobbs | Tenors
Virgile Ancely, Geoffroy Buffière | Pontifex I & II
Ensemble Pygmalion
Conducted by Raphaël Pichon
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Oedipus Coloneus, 2020

[@ApplepieFTW]

Work in progress list with timestamps: --- 1st part: 04:57 opening chorus 11:58 recitative 12:34 herzliebster jezu 13:16 recitative 16:12 buss und reu (...) 25:03 recitative 26:56 bin ichs? 27:51 recitative 31:11 ich will dir mein herze schenken 35:28 recitative 36:23 erkenne mich, mein hüter 37:28 recitative 38:18 ich will hier bei dir 39:22 recitative 41:07 o schermz 47:39 recitative 48:08 gerne will ich mich bequemen 53:05 recitative 54:16 was mein gott will 55:25 recitative 57:44 so ist mein jesus nun gefangen (...) 1:03:57 o mensch [ 1:09:20 gallus: ecce quomodo moritur justus ] --- 2nd part: 1:12:30 ach, nun ist mein jesus hin 1:16:29 recitative 1:17:34 mir hat die welt 1:19:39 geduld, geduld 1:23:55 recitative 1:25:50 wer hat dich so geschlagen (...) 1:29:06 erbarme dich (...) 2:07:25 komm susses kreuz

[@oedipuscoloneus190]

Hello. Thank you so much. Take care. :)

[@counterpartner]

2:21:37 und von der sechsten Stunde 2:28:40 des abends als es kühle war 2:30:33 mache dich mein herze rein 2:41:01 wir setzen uns

[@lingua6]

The transition from Kuhnau's motet to the St. Matthew Passion is magical. Beautiful performance!

[@goranklaren2566]

This is probably the best performance out there. The choir under Pichon is magnificent. Collected and stringent. The soloists are absolutely amazing. Sabine…💙

[@euledj79]

Wow, wow, wow! Pichon's cast are some of the best current soloists and the best concert master (Sophie Gent) as well one can wish for BWV 244. Stephane Degout's and Christian Immler's voices are out of this world. Degout is the best Jesus and Immler of course the best Pilate/Bass aria- engagement. I never heared the capturing-scene so dramatical as by Degout. It gives you chills! But especially the choir is absolutely fantasic!

[@francoisgirod3934]

Juste prodigieux. Raphaël semble en état de grâce. Quel bonheur esthétique et spirituel !

[@hannaberger2432]

Oh how much I would love to be part of this group🙏I sang this Passion several times in a choir, but this version is my absolute favourite! And all the musicians don't only make wonderful music, they are also beautiful to look at!!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@moshquilla]

Thank you, Oedipus Coloneus! I have watched this performance when it was streamed live back in 2015 and have waited since to find it on KZbin. Marvellous rendition of timeless music

[@francoisgirod3934]

Les oeillades et sourires complices des 2 fillettes du choeur d'enfants, de part et d'autre du chef, me font fondre. C'est si frais !

[@yossirocksu]

Merci beaucoup! C'es très belle, très spectaculaire et très bèatifique!

[@jsbrules]

starts with J. Kuhnau: Motet Tristis est anima mea then at 4:55: J.S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion BWV 244: Part I [for about 65 minutes] then about 70:00 J. Handl Gallus: Ecce quomodo moritur justus then about 72:15 J.S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion BWV 244: Part II

[@pelegribernial4741]

Una formidable interpretació , fa 3 anys al Palau de la música a Barcelona...Wundebar !!!!!!

[@silviabastos5888]

Gracias por venir a Barcelona a tocar La Pasión según San Mateo. ¡Una maravilla!

[@8888sam]

purest sounding version ive ever heard! and ive heard them all! bravo maestro!!

[@raulmauro5622]

Una Maravilla!!!!! Muchas Gracias

[@arievanderreijden714]

Really one of the best renditions of BWV 244 on KZbin. Very well recorded also, what a treat!

[@inesgabillet6165]

Superbe ! Merci pour le partage.

[@gerardwagner8447]

Quel talent formidable j'adore

[@jeanpierrehalter598]

Magnifique !

[@user-fm8pv3wh3n]

Du bonheur à l'état pur! Magnifique!

[@paoloangeri5146]

stupenda esecuzione bravissimi complimenti

[@hautboisjj]

Out of this world

[@edgardodelisi8634]

Muy buenos solistas y un gran dirección. Excelentes resultados.

[@tomsilva3496]

Thank you!

[@manelmatacases]

Wonderful rendition!. Damien Guillon wonderful as usual! Thanks, Concert donné le 25 mars 2015 à 20h00 à la Chapelle Royale à Versailles.

[@alaindubouetiez910]

2018...

[@PatrickBijvoet]

Tears in my eyes...

[@sheldonbazinga3985]

1h29minutes, le "petit curé de Rennes" lança sa voix céleste et tous se turent. Le Kantor de Leipzig sortit de sa torpeur millénaire et versa enfin une larme. Tout fut dit en quelques minutes et les croyants en transes se signèrent. Merci Damien.

[@sheldonbazinga3985]

@@marielilaqs Moi je le dis. C'est un des plus grand chanteur de notre temps!

[@sheldonbazinga3985]

@@marielilaqs Oui, la moustache en moins.

[@KayHarpaGone]

Et le nez toujours collé à sa partition malgré le nombre de fois qu’il a chanté tous ces airs depuis son enfance.

[@sheldonbazinga3985]

@@KayHarpaGone Est ce vraiment un mal?

[@KayHarpaGone]

@@sheldonbazinga3985 en concert, il me mettait tellement mal à l’aise avec son manque d’aisance que j’ai renoncé à aller le voir. En video, je le tolère.

[@thomasb.1909]

very intense, great

[@gerardchambon3530]

Superbe interprétation

[@itzlbritzl23]

Despite Jesus, who just shouts from the first to the last note, a WONDERFUL rendition!

[@oedipuscoloneus190]

He is suffering. :)

[@constantijnblondel7672]

@@oedipuscoloneus190 Stop it, you two, you make me crack up laughing so much, I'm scared I'll upset my Lutheran neighbours! ;)

[@oedipuscoloneus190]

@@constantijnblondel7672 Hehehe :)

[@jgomezmaestro]

¡Impresionante interpretación! Os recomiendo vivamente el disco de esta misma obra que ha grabado este joven director. Es ya una grabación de referencia de La pasión según San Mateo.

[@kaypattersonvlogs]

Unhealthily obsessed with this group lol! Such lovely and powerful performances! The transitions between the other pieces and the Bach🤌🏾Bach's Magnum Opus for sure! Never get tired of it! Performing it twice this season and I cannot get enough. My fave ❤ There is also something so subtlety French about this interpretation and I don’t hate it.😂 Weird that Geduld was done with cello not gamba but whatevs.

[@alaindubouetiez910]

Émotion aussi car dans l'orchestre il y avait Satomi Watanabe qui devait disparaitre brutalement trois ans environ après ce concert. Sur KZbin vous pouvez la voir avec Nathalie Stutzmann dans l'aria Erbarme dich.

[@pereboom23]

Beautiful 😍💋

[@user-nb8sf6no7n]

Recording from 26. März 2016 Chapelle royale du Château de Versailles (Versailles, Frankreich)

[@gerdkaufmann3672]

If Bach had knew that his music will be played in Versailles one time - he wouldnd belief it... He was a ambiscous composer in a provincial region - and that was the Center of its contemporary time

[@TheMuston]

1'00:41 Absolument admirable.

[@francoispallud1215]

j'y étais une des plus belles interprétation de concert

[@un23]

Don't insert advertisements.

[@michelvaillant2711]

... en réécoutant cette version musicale de la Passion dite de Saint Matthieu, revient aussi à la mémoire la toile de Léonard de Vinci, dite de la sainte cène. Alors de penser que la table aurait semble t elle pu aussi être ronde, ronde à l image du globe terrestre qui plus est de nos jours! Le grand symbole de cette Table, dite de la Sainte Scène..... Oh combien encore aujourd hui représentative de l Humanité dans tous ses états, qui plus est en ce siècle.

[@michelvaillant2711]

Min 1:04:08/.....

[@michelvaillant2711]

Romains 8:22

[@seanmarshall7529]

I would like to either confess my ignorance ... what was that music till 4:55, OR, FAKE NEWS (alla T'Rump) -> I didn't know that practice of writing an Introitus to an Introitus... cant wait to hear the last choral piece... -> Sorry just found out that Oedipus had actually written the name of the piece and the names of the composer Kuhnau (Kuh (Cow) n (and) au (grassy field)) I suppose Bach wrote the lyrics..

[@giovannisanti5007]

sorry, is the Chapelle Royale, Château de Versailles, but when?

[@RafWu]

It was broadcast on the Mezzo TV channel so that might lead to an answer.

[@giovannisanti5007]

I'm curious: where and when this concert?

[@karstensturm4198]

It must have been in France. Indeed the location and year are missing.

[@bartschepens1307]

Chapelle royale de Versailles

[@jsbrules]

in March 2016 (see www.bach-cantatas.com/Performers/Pichon.htm)

[@motishefer4732]

One-time performance.

[@pereboom23]

What is the opening piece? 😍

[@eduardoereno9582]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Gerechte_kömmt_um_(motet)

[@perecollvernet5114]

Sublim

[@seanmarshall7529]

where is this church? It looks like one that Savall used (Concert of Nations ???)

[@oedipuscoloneus190]

Hello Sean. Versailles.

[@seanmarshall7529]

@@oedipuscoloneus190 Merci beaucoup!.. I speak Italian... LOL... Thank you sooo much, you introduced me to french baroque archittecture... It is soooo similar to the Italian, where it was borne! Et merci pour votre tres beau Music!

[@oedipuscoloneus190]

You're welcome. :) I speak portuguese. :) Take care.

[@seanmarshall7529]

@@oedipuscoloneus190 just messing with you.. and I italian and German.. Bom dia ;-)

[@oedipuscoloneus190]

Um dia feliz. :)

[@MrGagreflex99]

Thanks for the upload! There seems to be three KZbin channels titles “Oedipus” “Oedipus Coloneus” and “Antigone”, sharing very similar content. Are they are managed by the same people? There does not seem to be any information online. Who are you people!?

[@oedipuscoloneus190]

Hi, they are mine. :) Duarte from Portugal. :) Take care :)

[@MrGagreflex99]

@@oedipuscoloneus190 HI Duarte! Thank you for all your work! I am curious, why three different channels rather than a single one?

[@oedipuscoloneus190]

@@MrGagreflex99 I have a lot of years doing this and its more safe having little channels than a big one.

[@MrGagreflex99]

@@oedipuscoloneus190 Can't dispute your experience. Take care, nice to meet you!

[@oedipuscoloneus190]

@@MrGagreflex99 take care you to. :)

[@carlosvillarreal6743]

What church was this recorded?

[@eduardoereno9582]

Versailles’ palace royal chapel

[@tomsilva3496]

Repost Monteverdi Madrigals by Les Arts Florissants directed by Paul Agnew please please please

[@oedipuscoloneus190]

Hello Tom. Unfortunately its blocked. The same for the Gesualdo ones...

[@rodion-burbin]

With cornetto and tromba da tirarsi in the orchestra? That’s interesting :)

[@superxross]

this is paasion not mass......no brass

[@rodion-burbin]

@@superxross I think that trumpets and corni da caccia are “forbidden” in Passions but cornetto, trombone etc have slightly different semantics.

[@nebrodkynegos1246]

Beutiful performance. Thank you for this clip. (But why are the conductor, singers, players and the audience so delightful about this agonizing Story of Jesus? What they have sung and listen to isn't their Lord's Passion Story?)

[@auroreboyer9683]

Because He saved them.

[@KayHarpaGone]

They are so glad to sing with such a good director and team !

[@mp5524]

2:41:00

[@user-waieseai]

1:48:05

[@ciatro]

Why does the choir sing an a cappella piece before the Passion? What piece is it, is it related to passion? And why is everything being sung at such a fast tempo?

[@oedipuscoloneus190]

Hello. Tempo depends of the taste and of what are you used to. Concerning the beggining Pichon does that many times with the propose to enlace the biginning. Take care.

[@oedipuscoloneus190]

He conducted again this year - here it is the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJncd3qwnZiChZY

[@ciatro]

@@oedipuscoloneus190 Thanks for your reply. It seems to me a very beautiful version although I do not share some of its criteria. Congratulations.

[@oedipuscoloneus190]

@@ciatro I understand perfectly. :) What reaches the soul depends from what we are. Like the days, there is people that prefer dinner than lunch or the mornings instead of nights. We are unique. Take care ciatro. :)

[@jean-noeljuttet2784]

Très réussi. Un maillon faible cependant : Jésus chante avec les intonations de Mephistopheles.

[@KayHarpaGone]

😂😂😂

[@violinhunter2]

4:58

[@violinhunter2]

That harmony at 6:03 - what is it?

[@violinhunter2]

21:06

[@harlanhh1]

C'est très, très bien fait. Mais il y a aussi quelques (rares) parties qui ne sont pas bien faites. Par exemple... "Oh tête pleine de sang et de blessures". Du choral toujours récurrent. On ne peut pas "chanter" ça comme : vers 6+7, puis le suivant. Celui-ci est spécial : il a de la profondeur. Cela est chanté ici beaucoup trop rapidement. Sans cœur. C'est dommage.

[@sheldonbazinga3985]

Obligé d'être d'accord avec vous sur ce point et surtout sur "Mache dich, mein herze" vraiment expédié. Cependant sur l'ensemble de l'oeuvre "nous y sommes". Tout est respecté et il s'agit là d'une "sacrée" version. Bravo!

[@nathaliebera-tagrine3256]

Très beau !... mais hélas par moments trop vite à mon goût: cela perd en intensité.

[@victormedem3981]

Gewöhnungsbedürftig

[@maximef4036]

Wayyyyy too fast... Are you hurry to come back home ? So bad, in such a prestigious place... Listen to Karajan version for an idea of what tempo should be... take time to enjoy music, it's like great wine : it's not a who-drinks-the-fastest contest...

[@geiryvindeskeland7208]

maximef, quote: «Listen to Karajan version for an idea of what tempo should be.» Dear maximef and others, you must soon have realize d that most performances of BWV 244 these day are versions where the conductors and musicians try to perform the music closer to the original style. Old written sources provide conductors with information such as Karajan, Klemperer and Richter showed no interest. Therefore, their versions were slower than the H.I.P. - versions. The fact that you think it’s going too fast doesn’t mean that the old written sources misinform. The funny thing is that the doctors can confirm that the opening chorus in Karajan, Klemperer and Richter’s versions is too slow.

[@KayHarpaGone]

@@geiryvindeskeland7208 bien dit ! well said !

[@kaypattersonvlogs]

This is a long piece, man...😂All kidding aside, I find these tempi to be exciting and appropriate. Older recordings are always so slow with so much syrupy vibrato everywhere. It's a matter of taste of course. I find we like interpretations we listened to the most or at first. I much prefer the snappier tempi throughout...except for Aus Liebe. That's special. I did find Geduld to be a touch fast, but that may have been the preference of the tenor. I just can't imagine singing through some of this material much slower. Exhausting.