Passion Music: Bach Chorale

My favourite Bach chorale is "Wer Hat Dich So Geschlagen" from the St. John Passion. The text (translated below) paired with the music and sung by the Mondeverdi Choir - exquisite.

Who has struck you thus,

my Savior, and with torments

so evilly used You?

You are not at all a sinner

like us and our children,

You know nothing of transgressions.

I, I and my sins,

that can be found like the grains

of sand by the sea,

these have brought You

this misery that assails You,

and this tormenting martyrdom

I highly recommend the full St. John Passion, sung by the Monteverdi Choir and conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.