Christus: Sacred Trilogy (2/3) — With Raphaël Pichon and the Ensemble Pygmalion
Part II: Passion
Cast
François-René Martin — Movie director
Bertrand Couderc — Lighting
Julian Prégardien — Evangelist
Huw Montague Rendall — Jesus
Ying Fang — Soprano
Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian — Countertenor
Laurence Kilsby — Tenor
Program notes
Join Raphaël Pichon and Ensemble Pygmalion as they tell the Biblical Christmas story through the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Across a triptych of concerts, they celebrate and retrace the life of Christ, guiding the listener from the Nativity to the Passion and onward to the Resurrection…
In this second concert, the two halves of St John’s Passion are framed by liturgical reflections drawn from Cantata BWV 159, a compelling dialogue between the soul and Jesus that foreshadows the events to come.
