Name: Prom 40: Bach’s St John Passion
Start: 2024-08-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-08-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

Admin

BBC Proms

Conductor

Masaaki Suzuki

Singer

Tenor

Benjamin Bruns

Evangelist

Bass

Christian Immler

Jesus

Yusuke Watanabe

Pilate

Soprano

Carolyn Sampson

Countertenor

Alexander Chance

Shimon Yoshida

Orchestra

Bach Collegium Japan

Prom 40: Bach’s St John Passion

London

United Kingdom

Royal Albert Hall

Prom 40: Bach’s St John Passion: St. John Passion, BWV 245 Bach, J. S.

Public

St John Passion

Paul Koneri

Approved

About This Event
Nobody does Bach quite like the Bach Collegium Japan. The ensemble makes a welcome return to the Proms for the composer’s concentrated depiction of Christ’s arrest, rendition and execution – the St John Passion. Probing, unsettling, dramatic and beautiful, Bach’s work is known as much for its optimism as for its turbulence, its final bars appearing to invite all of us to imagine a brighter future. Specialist soloists led by Benjamin Bruns, Christian Immler and Carolyn Sampson join Masaaki Suzuki and his ensemble for a performance of Bach’s masterpiece marking three centuries since it was written.

There will be one interval

Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble