Gramophone DA 4933 Bach ‘Himmel, reisse, Welt, erbebe’ BWV 245a, Ars Rediviva, Crussard - Kostenloses Hörbuch

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

St. John Passion BWV 245 (version II, 1725)

XI(a). Aria with chorale ‘Himmel, reiße, Welt, erbebe’ BWV 245a

Realisation by Claude Crussard

Jacques Bastard (bass-baritone)

Yvonne Gouverné Choir

Jacqueline Heuclin (obbligato ’cello)

Ars Rediviva

Claude Crussard (harpsichord/director)

Recorded: 5 November 1941, Studio Albert, Paris

Format: coarse-groove, 78 rpm, 10” / 25 cm, electrical

Matrices: 0LA 3638-1 / 0LA 3639-1

Issued: mid-1942

Catalogue number: DA 4933

Transfer and restoration: Andrew Hallifax for DogintheManger

Photographs: DogintheManger

Contemporary sources

Review by Ch. Thomassin, La Tribune de l’Aube, Friday 24 July 1942, p.2

Review by Henry-Jacques, La France socialiste, Monday 5 October 1942, p.3

Review by A. Forestier, L’Œuvre, Saturday 7 November 1942, p.3

Review by A.S., Je suis partout, Friday 13 November 1942, p.7

(NB In all the above reviews the catalogue prefix is given, incorrectly, as DB)