Why is Bach's St. Matthew Passion relevant today?
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In this short podcast I listen to opening music of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, performed by John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir with the English Baroque Soloist, and offer one possible answer to the question of why a piece written in German, 300 years ago, in celebration of Christianity, is 'worth listening to" by non-Christian, non-German speaking people, today.
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This episode was published on February 15, 2017.
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