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Performances of the Bach passions are not exactly Easter rarities, but the St Matthew Passion that Fretwork brought to the Wigmore Hall on Good Friday was not by Bach at all. This setting of the story from Matthewâs gospel is a third of the length of Bachâs famous version and pre-dates it by half a century: it was composed around 1663 by Johann Sebastiani, who was then the choir master at Königsberg Cathedral. By then, Passion settings had become the preserve of the Lutheran church, and Sebastianiâs seems to have been the first to incorporate chorales and hymns with non-biblical texts into the score, accompanying the solo voices with two violins, a quartet of viole de gamba, and continuo.