BBC Proms 2017 - Bachs St John Passion

Prom 49: Bach’s St John Passion , , Royal Albert Hall Bach specialist John Butt and his award-winning Dunedin Consort make their Proms debut with a performance of Bach’s St John Passion, a work of almost operatic immediacy. The soloists include Tim Mead, Sophie Bevan and Nicholas Mulroy. Programme Johann Sebastian Bach St John Passion (130 mins) Performers Nicholas Mulroy Evangelist Matthew Brook Jesus Sophie Bevan soprano Tim Mead counter-tenor Andrew Tortise tenor Konstantin Wolff bass Dunedin Consort John Butt harpsichord/director About This Event The climax of the Proms Reformation Day is a complete performance of Bach’s St John Passion. ‘More daring, forceful and poetic’ than the St Matthew Passion, according to Schumann, this is a work of almost operatic vividness that brings both a humanity and a painful immediacy to the Passion narrative. Bach specialist John Butt and his Dunedin Consort make their Proms debut in a perf