Thomas Quasthoff conducts Bach's Saint Matthew's Passion
With the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Schola de Sion and the RIAS Kammerchor
Casting
Mark Padmore — Tenor (Évangéliste)
Manuel Walser — Barítono (Jésus)
Christiane Karg — Soprano
Bernarda Fink — Mezzosoprano
Mauro Peter — Tenor
Christopher Maltman — Barítono
Ya-Fei Chuang — Organista
Robert Levin — Organista
Nicolas Altstaedt — Continuista
Martin Zeller — Violagambista
RIAS Kammerchor
Schola de Sion
Orquesta de Cámara del Festival de Verbier
Thomas Quasthoff — Director
Sobre el programa...
Thomas Quasthoff, who announced his retirement from singing baritone, is taking up the baton at the Verbier Festival in 2015!
He leads Bach's monumental Saint Matthew Passion, one of the composer's two Passions, whose story, taken from the Gospels of the Apostles, recounts the condemnation of Jesus, the Last Supper and crucifixion.
Thomas Quasthoff appears courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon.
Pic ture: Thomas Quasthoff © Aline Paley.