St Matthew Passion Chorales

Students of the CIT Cork School of Music sing chorales from St Matthew’s Passion, re-ordered into a soul-searching narrative and performed in a haunting a cappella arrangement.

Bach’s celebrated Passions, meditations on the crucifixion of Jesus, juxtapose words from the gospels with poetic meditations by an unknown author. Throughout each work Bach balances the individual and collective response, the named and the nameless, the recorded and the unrecorded, the personal and the universal. In this performance every chorale melody used in the St Matthew Passion will be sung, the texts selected for their relevance to the human response to the suffering of the innocence and organised so as to create sense from senselessness.

Anne Ralph’s unorthodox training in Hungary with Roland Hajdu, Dr János Klézli and Zsuzsa Kontra has led her to re-examine this beloved work from a text-centred standpoint. She will direct several of her most outstanding BMus musicianship students, colleagues and friends in this pop-up performance in the beautiful Crawford Art Gallery.Students of the CIT Cork School of Music sing chorales from St Matthew’s Passion, re-ordered into a soul-searching narrative and performed in a haunting a cappella arrangement.

Bach’s celebrated Passions, meditations on the crucifixion of Jesus, juxtapose words from the gospels with poetic meditations by an unknown author. Throughout each work Bach balances the individual and collective response, the named and the nameless, the recorded and the unrecorded, the personal and the universal. In this performance every chorale melody used in the St Matthew Passion will be sung, the texts selected for their relevance to the human response to the suffering of the innocence and organised so as to create sense from senselessness.

Anne Ralph’s unorthodox training in Hungary with Roland Hajdu, Dr János Klézli and Zsuzsa Kontra has led her to re-examine this beloved work from a text-centred standpoint. She will direct several of her most outstanding BMus musicianship students, colleagues and friends in this pop-up performance in the beautiful Crawford Art Gallery.Students of the CIT Cork School of Music sing chorales from St Matthew’s Passion, re-ordered into a soul-searching narrative and performed in a haunting a cappella arrangement.

Bach’s celebrated Passions, meditations on the crucifixion of Jesus, juxtapose words from the gospels with poetic meditations by an unknown author. Throughout each work Bach balances the individual and collective response, the named and the nameless, the recorded and the unrecorded, the personal and the universal. In this performance every chorale melody used in the St Matthew Passion will be sung, the texts selected for their relevance to the human response to the suffering of the innocence and organised so as to create sense from senselessness.

Anne Ralph’s unorthodox training in Hungary with Roland Hajdu, Dr János Klézli and Zsuzsa Kontra has led her to re-examine this beloved work from a text-centred standpoint. She will direct several of her most outstanding BMus musicianship students, colleagues and friends in this pop-up performance in the beautiful Crawford Art Gallery.