Professor John Butt's recording success
Published: 27 March 2013
Professor John Butt, Gardiner Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow and musical director of Edinburgh's Dunedin Consort, has a “hit” on his hands! Bach’s St John Passion is Recording of the Month for the BBC’s Music magazine and Gramophone magazine.
Professor John Butt, Gardiner Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow and musical director of Edinburgh's Dunedin Consort, is enjoying huge success with the recently released recording of Bach’s St John Passion. The recording also features the University’s Chapel Choir singers conducted by James Grossmith.
John’s recording, with the Dunedin Consort, was named as the Gramophone magazine recording of the month which featured the work extensively. BBC Music magazine also made the piece its recording of the month and described it as a landmark event.
The vision behind the recording was to recreate the liturgical context in which the Passion would have first been heard. A review published by the Guardian said: “Dunedin's new recording covers everything, sermon and all, and the impact on Bach's passion music is revelatory.”
First published: 27 March 2013
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