Passionsoratorium

Harpsichordist and conductor Alexander Grychtolik and the Belgian top ensemble Il Gardellino present on PASSACAILLE an attempt to reconstruct the Passion Oratorio BWV Anh. 169 that Bach began around 1725, but subsequently abandoned or had to abandon. This recording is intended to demonstrate that the composer must have also planned his own contribution to the then extremely popular genre of the freely composed Passion Oratorio with Picander's free Passion poem. Numerous detailed questions about the work will probably remain unanswered forever. In the spirit of artistic experiment, however, this version is intended to explore a new aspect of Bach's Passion style.