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APPENDIX I
NATIONALITY OF CONDUCTORS
The following list includes all of the 79 known complete commercial recordings made in
the years of 1982-2007 of the St. John Passion. The list is arranged by nationality of
conductor. Under each country, the conductors are alphabetically arranged by last name
with the year of recording(s) indicated in parenthesis. Those that are in bold typeface
designate recordings that were available for review during the time of this dissertation.
This perspective affords the reader to draw preliminary conclusions concerning which
countries are producing the most or least commercial recordings of the St. John Passion.
In addition, the reader is able to ascertain which perspectives were unable to be included
in this dissertation. Two caveats, one in the case of The Scholars Baroque Ensemble,
which has no formal conductor, I chose to place them in the country where they were
founded and continue to perform, in this case, England. Second, several recordings
feature a conductor of one nationality and the performing forces will be from an
altogether different country. In this case, the recording is still placed under the
conductor‟s nationality. My gratitude is extended to Aryreh Oron, web master for the
Bach Cantatas Website, whose resources helped in compiling this list.
Austria
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1985, 1993)
Belgium
Paul Dombrecht (1996)
Philippe Herreweghe (1987, 2001)
Sigiswald Kuijken (1987)
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