Wilhelm Furtwängler’s 1954 Vienna St Matthew Passion, newly XR remastered from Holy Week performances recorded in the final months of his life, brings his unmistakable sense of line, structure and drama to Bach’s greatest sacred work.
With Anton Dermota’s superb Evangelist, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s deeply felt Christus and Elisabeth Grümmer’s radiant soprano, this remains one of the most compelling St. Matthew Passion recordings of its era, now heard with new tonal coherence, stability and presence.
We also mark Herbert von Karajan this week, celebrating the 118th anniversary of his birth with a 10% discount across all 16 albums in our Karajan collection.
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FURTWÄNGLER Bach: St. Matthew Passion
