Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: A Bavarian Hybrid St. John Passion With Peter Dijkstra

...The BR Chorus happens to be one of the very, very best choruses around, though, and these three dozen singers, working in smaller ensembles, have the uncanny ability to sing truly as one. They can turn on a dime and execute with a razor’s edge. Such an exactitude is rare, at allows us to hear a hybrid modern-traditional/HIP choral performance without making compromises on the precision and clarity of the text we are used to from One-Voice-Per-Part (OVPP) performances while still getting properly walloped...

-> Classical CD Of The Week: A Bavarian Hybrid St. John Passion With Peter Dijkstra

Johann Sebastian Bach, St. John Passion (Johannes Passion), Peter Dijkstra / Concerto Köln, BR Chorus / Julian Pregardien, Tarqu Nazmi, Christina Landshammer, Tilman Lichdi, Kresimir Strazanac, Ulrike Malotta, BR Klassik