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St. John Passion, BWV 245, Part I: Recitative. Derselbige Junger war dem Hohen priester bekannt (Evangelist, Jesus, Ancilla, Petru by David Wilson Johnson album cover

St. John Passion, BWV 245, Part I: Recitative. Derselbige Junger war dem Hohen priester bekannt (Evangelist, Jesus, Ancilla, Petru

by David Wilson Johnson

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About "St. John Passion, BWV 245, Part I: Recitative. Derselbige Junger war dem Hohen priester bekannt (Evangelist, Jesus, Ancilla, Petru" by David Wilson Johnson

Bach's Evangelist narrates with dry, urgent precisionβ€”a courtyard fire, a servant girl's question, a denial about to bloom. The recitative's austere tension is the calm before betrayal, every cadence a held breath in the Passion's gathering dusk.