Dunedin Consort

St Matthew Passion

Dunedin Consort

Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthew Passion, BWV 244

John Butt: Director
Andrew Tortise: Evangelist
Edward Grint: Christus

Bach’s setting of the Passion story — an astonishing tale of persecution, betrayal and forgiveness — is a work of staggering musical virtuosity and accomplishment. This is music that pushes and pulls us, that draws us inexorably inwards and which remains overwhelmingly moving, year after year. But it is just as much a story about love. About how each of us, spiritual or otherwise, can find solace and community through love and redemption, and take courage from the knowledge that hope still lives on in the darkest of places.

Thu, 6 April 2023
The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
7:00pm
£6 - £26.50

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Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthew Passion, BWV 244

John Butt: Director
Andrew Tortise: Evangelist
Edward Grint: Christus

Bach’s setting of the Passion story — an astonishing tale of persecution, betrayal and forgiveness — is a work of staggering musical virtuosity and accomplishment. This is music that pushes and pulls us, that draws us inexorably inwards and which remains overwhelmingly moving, year after year. But it is just as much a story about love. About how each of us, spiritual or otherwise, can find solace and community through love and redemption, and take courage from the knowledge that hope still lives on in the darkest of places.