Raphaël Pichon conducts Bach: St Matthew Passion

Filmed at the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence in 2021, this performance sees Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion present a compellingly dramatic and moving account of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Captured in concert just before the same forces entered the studio for their groundbreaking Gramophone Award-winning recording – “this is a Passion that makes a very definite statement about what this work can communicate in our times,” the magazine wrote. With a distinguished cast led by Julian Prégardien as Evangelist and Stéphane Degout as Christus, alongside Sabine Devieilhe, Hana Blažíková, Lucile Richardot and Tim Mead, this is a St Matthew Passion that draws the listener deep into the astonishingly powerful world of Bach’s towering masterpiece.