The Netherlands Bach Society was formed in 1921, in reaction to the performances of the St Matthew Passion by Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra, in which everything was wrong: a large symphony orchestra playing on modern instruments (that didn't exist in that form in the time of Bach), and in a contemporary style. The founders of the Bach Society believed that Bach should be performed where it belonged – in a church, and with forces appropriate to it. This has given rise to the annual performance by the Bach Society of the St Matthew Passion in the Grote Kerk in Naarden - now a hallowed Dutch tradition.
In 2017, the Netherlands Bach Society also performed the St John Passion in the Grote Kerk, as they always do in a historically correct style. Compared to the St Matthew Passion, the St John's Passion is dramatic rather than contemplative thanks to its frequent short choral interjections, but above all it is based on a different "ideology": Christ is seen as a deity, the eternal ruler of the world, who carries out a predetermined mission on earth, and not a fellow human being who suffers tragically.
Read more about the St John passion in my blog: https://adblankestijn.blogspot.com/2022/03/bach-cantatas-st-john-passion-johannes.html
Here is the St John Passion, played by the Netherlands Bach Society (conductor: Jos van Veldhoven).