Silence instead of applause: at the concert on Good Friday in Dresden, the Kreuzchor and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra give you goosebumps with Bach’s „St. Matthew Passion“.<\/p>\n
The Dresden Kreuzchor with its soloist ensemble and the philharmonic orchestra provided a musical highlight with Johann Sebastian Bach’s „St. Matthew Passion“. At the concert on Good Friday, when applause is traditionally dispensed with, they offered a unified interpretation under the direction of Kreuzkantor Martin Lehmann. <\/p>\n
Silence after the last note<\/p>\n
Among the vocal soloists, the British Helen Charlston (alto) and baritone Jonas M\u00fcller stood out alongside the Icelander Benedikt Kristjansson as the Evangelist. Marie-Sophie Pollak (soprano), Richard Resch (tenor) and the bass Roderick Williams as Jesus were also convincing. After the last note, the audience in the well-filled Kreuzkirche remained silent for a long time.<\/p>\n
Good Friday is considered a „silent holiday“, as in Christianity it is dedicated to the memory of the death of Jesus Christ. The day is therefore marked by mourning, reflection and contemplation. <\/p>\n
The Dresden Kreuzchor, which is more than 800 years old, is one of the leading boys‘ choirs in Germany. Back in February, the choir performed Bach’s Mass in B minor, one of the central choral symphonic works, at a concert to commemorate the destruction of Dresden in the Second World War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Silence instead of applause: at the concert on Good Friday in Dresden, the Kreuzchor and the Dresden Philharmonic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1835],"tags":[3364,29,2386,30,21640,1779,859,4054],"class_list":{"0":"post-919022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dresden","8":"tag-de","9":"tag-deutschland","10":"tag-dresden","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-history","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-sachsen","15":"tag-saxony"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@de\/116342587960860280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}