Sir Simon Rattle was in no doubt: the performance of the St Matthew Passion which he realised together with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin in 2010 was for him āthe single most important thing we ever did hereā. Critics around the world agreed. They praised the semi-staged āritualizationā by American star-director Peter Sellars, as well as the outstanding musical performances by the soloists, including Magdalena KoženĆ”, Christian Gerhaher, Thomas Quasthoff and Mark Padmore as the Evangelist.
