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Matthäus-Passion BWV 244

Conducted by Bruno Walter

 

 

Recording

V-1

Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 – Part 1

Bruno Walter

The Westminster Choir & Junior Choirs of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music / New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Tenor [Evangelist]: Walter Hain; Bass [Jesus]: Lorenzo Alvary; Soprano: Nadine Conner; Alto: Jean Watson; Baritone: Mack Harrell; Baritone: Herbert Janssen

Bruno Walter Society / Minerva / Phonographe

1943 or Apr 1945

CD / TT: 78:34

Part One Only; abridges Nos. 10, 12, 19, and 29

Bach-Mahler-Walter

Bradley Lehman wrote (April 4, 2002):
< Jim Morrison wrote: I was wrong. This is clearly the Bruno Waler/Mahler/Bach list. >
So, did Walter ever record (or even perform) the composite orchestral suite that Mahler assembled from Bach's suites 2 and 3? (The one that Esa-Pekka Salonen recorded in 1999 in L.A.?) A weird pastiche: the ouverture, rondeau, and badinerie from suite #2 and then the air and two gavottes from suite #3, reorchestrated. B minor, D major, ehhh, whatever!

Walter devotes a chapter to the St Matthew Passion in his book. Anybody know: do there exist any recordings of a Walter performance of the SMP?

Walter describes ornaments in Bach as an essential spice, as with food: their general function is to introduce enough dissonance for good taste, where the music might be too bland without them. I like crossover comments like that.

Philip Peters wrote (April 5, 2002):
< Bradley Lehman wrote: Walter devotes a chapter to the St Matthew Passion in his book. Anybody know: do there exist any recordings of a Walter performance of the SMP? >
Only of part one and IIRC that is not quite complete either. It was recorded in 1943 with Mack Harrell and Herbert Janssen as the most distinguished of the soloists (the others are Walter Hain, Lorenzo Alvary, Nadine Conner and Jean Watson). The orchestra is the NYP. It has been reissued on CD as Phonographe PH 5031/32 by Nuova Era Records in Italy (bizarrely coupled with Leonore III with the VPO from 1936) and probably on other labels as well.IMO it is rather terrible but, of course, interesting.

Matthäus-Passion BWV 244: Details
Recordings: Until 1950 | 1951-1960 | 1961-1970 | 1971-1980 | 1981-1990 | 1991-2000 | From 2001 | Individual Movements
General Discussions: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | BWV 244a | BWV 244b
Systemetic Discussions: Part 1: Mvts. 1-8 | Part 2: Mvts. 9-20 | Part 3: Mvts. 21-29 | Part 4: Mvts. 30-40 | Part 5: Mvts. 41-50 | Part 6: Mvts. 51-57 | Part 7: Mvts. 58-63b | Part 8: Mvts. 63c-68 | Part 9: Role of the Evangelist
Individual Recordings: BWV 244 - Bernstein | BWV 244 - Brüggen | BWV 244 - Cleobury | BWV 244 - Daus | BWV 244 - Fasolis | BWV 244 - Furtwängler | BWV 244 - Gardiner | BWV 244 - Gönnenwein | BWV 244 - Goodwin | BWV 244 - Guttenberg | BWV 244 - Harnoncourt | BWV 244 - Herreweghe | BWV 244 - Jacques | BWV 244 - Karajan | BWV 244 - Klemperer | BWV 244 - Koopman | BWV 244 - Koussevitzky | BWV 244 - Kuijken | BWV 244 - Lehmann | BWV 244 - Leonhardt | BWV 244 - Leusink | BWV 244 - Mauersberger | BWV 244 - Max | BWV 244 - McCreesh | BWV 244 - Mengelberg | BWV 244 - Münchinger | BWV 244 - Norrington | BWV 244 - Oberfrank | BWV 244 - Ozawa | BWV 244 - Parrott | BWV 244 - Ramin | BWV 244 - Richter | BWV 244 - Rilling | BWV 244 - Rotzsch | BWV 244 - Scherchen | BWV 244 - Solti | BWV 244 - Spering | BWV 244 - Suzuki | BWV 244 - Veldhoven | BWV 244 - Walter | BWV 244 - Werner | BWV 244 - Wöldike
Articles: Saint Matthew Passion, BWV 244 [T. Noel Towe] | Two Easter St. Matthew Passions (Plus One) [U. Golomb] | St. Matthew Passion from Harnoncourt [D. Satz] | The Passion according to Saint Matthew BWV 244 [J. Rifkin] | The Relationship between BWV 244a (Trauermusik) and BWV 244b (SMP Frühfassung) [T. Braatz)

Bruno Walter: Short Biography | New York Philharmonic Orchestra | BWV 244 – Walter

Recordings & Discussions of Other Vocal Works: Motets BWV 225-231 | Mass in B minor BWV 232 | Missae Breves & Sanctus BWV 233-242 | Magnificat BWV 243 | Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 | Johannes-Passion BWV 245 | Lukas-Passion BWV 246 | Markus-Passion BWV 247 | Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248 | Oster-Oratorium BWV 249 | Chorales BWV 250-438 | Geistliche Lieder BWV 439-507 | AMN BWV 508-523 | Quodlibet BWV 524 | Aria BWV 1127

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