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Monteverdi Choir
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Deutsch
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"Filmed and recorded in the Sheldonian Theatre and presented on CD/Blu-ray in Dolby Atmos, this performance from Good Friday 2021 marked Sir John Eliot Gardiner's return to the stage. He says: "I recorded the piece for the first time for Archiv Produktion back in 1986 and it remains truly special to me. Bach conceived the piece as much as an act of worship as a work of religious art."--Amazon.com.
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Language
Latin
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"Within a decade of taking up his post as Thomaskantor in Leipzig in 1723, Bach was becoming ever more frustrated with the Saxon city's civic politics. Never one to compromise, he had clashed with the authorities almost from the word go. In August 1730 complaints that he had been neglecting his duties led him to submit a 'brief but highly necessary draft of a well-appointed church music' to the Leipzig council. Inter alia, he pointed out that he did...
