Archive for April 2021
Lazy Weekend: Happy Easter!
Posted on: April 4, 2021
Happy Easter Widdershins, for those celebrating!
Passover ended last night, so happy end of Passover for those celebrating!
Let’s just share some Passover and Easter related music! I’ll start with one of my absolute all-time favorite works: Johann Sebastian’s Bach’s extraordinary “St. Matthew Passion.” I’ll argue one of the top 10 greatest works of Western art music ever written.
Composed in 1727. The exact circumstances of its composition and premiere are murky. Seems that it was probably first performed on Good Friday of April 11, 1727, in St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach was the Cantor. (A church that still exists and where musical performances still take place.) Bach then revised the Matthäus-Passion in the 1740s.
A couple of excerpts from the work.
This is an open thread!
The Widdershins 
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