For Christians, this Friday is like no other, being Holy Friday and the occasion for celebrating Christ’s Passion.
How better to illustrate this than by evoking Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion? Furtwängler conducted many performances of it — nearly forty! And almost 80 years later, here is a facsimile of the programme for the Matthew Passion given in Vienna on 23 November 1938, with a superlative distribution: Jo Vincent, Louis von Tulder, Margarete Klose… and the Singverein of the Society of the Friends of Music, not forgetting the Little Singers of Vienna.
The rarity of the programme will enable you to overlook the condition of the document. As always, the latter is also available from the concert.
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