Passion plea

摘要

I was interested in Peter Quantrill's survey of recordings of Bach's St John Passion in the May 2021 issue. He mentions and recommended the version by VCM and Harnoncourt, with Kurt Equiluz as the Evangelist in a recording from 1965. This is just a little confusing as I also have a recording from 1967 with Kurt Equiluz as Evangelist but Nikolas Hamoncourt playing the viola da gamba! The recording is on Teldec's Das Alte Werk label [SKH 19], but conducted by Hans Gillesberger. Is this the same recording, or were two made within a couple of years?