in Choir & Organ (Mar, 2015)
Following on from their excellent recording of Chilcott’s Requiem, Matthew Owens and the Wells Cathedral Choir have now set down the compos- er’s St John Passion, which they premiered in 2013. Chilcott takes Bach’s example as his model, though not without developing and adjusting it. Lasting for around an hour, Chilcott’s Passion setting takes his narrative from the King James Bible, allocating a tenor Evangelist (here, the excellent and vivid Ed Lyon) with the story not in secco recitative but a more flowing arioso manner mainly supported by lower strings; Christ and Pilate feature as in Bach, as do the choir as soldiers, crowd, and so on. Bach’s chorales are replaced …
Chilcott: St John Passion – Owens
Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle
The Garden
Hymn: It is a thing most wonderful
Peter’s denial
Miserere, my Maker
Hymn: Drop, drop slow tears
The Judgement Hall (I)
Hymn: Jesu, grant me this, I pray
Christ, my Beloved
The Judgement Hall (II)
Away vain world
Jesus is crucified
Hymn: There is a green hill far away
The Crucifixion
Jesus, my leman
Jesus dies on the cross
When I survey the wondrous cross
Owens, Matthew / Wells Cathedral Choir
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