Dedication and Commitment René Jacobs' St Matthew Passion - strongly recommended by GERALD FENECH '... a power that almost sweeps you off your feet.'

The greatest choral masterpiece by the greatest composer ever? Yes, I believe it is, although admirers of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis or Handel's Messiah might refute the claim. Whatever the case, Bach's St Matthew Passion will always be a profound experience of what redeemable suffering is; a journey where the listener is sucked into that divine intimacy that purifies and transforms...

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

RENE JACOBS

CHORAL MUSIC

GERMANY

HARMONIA MUNDI