BBC Proms

Season 68 Episode 66: Prom 66: Bach – St Matthew Passion

Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker present Peter Sellars’s staging of Bach’s St Matthew Passion for the first time in the UK. It’s a work that confronts suffering and torture as well as salvation and redemption in some of Bach’s most moving music. Mark Padmore’s Evangelist leads a starry cast that also includes celebrated German baritone Christian Gerhaher.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

80

Episodes:

1175

Actor:

Quality:

HD

Status:

Returning Series

First Air:

1947

IMDb:

7.7