J.S. Bach: St. Matthäus-Passion Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon Harmonia Mundi 2xCD   J.S. Bach: St. John Passion English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Deutsche Grammophon 2XCD   The Bach Passions are a staple of the choral repertoire for Holy Week, and there are a number of fine recordings of them. There’s room for more; two additions to this corpus from 2022 are extraordinary: a St. Matthew Passion recorded by Pygmalion, directed by Raphaël Pichon for HM, and a St. John Passion by one of the great Bach conductors, John Eliot Gardiner, with his house bands the English Baroque