For a great number of musicians today, all roads lead to Bach. It doesn’t seem to matter what their own area of specialisation is. Bach is a spiritual leader, an explorer and an intellectual giant ...

In this episode of DW Festival Concert with Cristina Burack, we listen to the St. Mathew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach. It's a piece that tells the story of Christ's crucifixion and death. Every ...

As Oxford Philharmonic begins its Bach Mendelssohn festival at the end of this month, Katy Hamilton looks at the women responsible for Mendelssohn's revelatory discovery of the mighty St Matthew ...

Johann Sebastian Bach never wrote an opera, but his dramatic gifts can be discerned in several oratorios, especially “St. Matthew Passion.” The work has a cast of dozens, including two choruses as the ...

It needs to be said at the outset that yesterday’s performance wasn’t without incident. Having lost Carolyn Sampson to illness, soprano solos were taken at short notice by Helen-Jane Howells – a ...

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Soloists Anna Fredericka Popova and Nicholas Garza perform during The Dallas Bach Society presentation of Bach's Passion According to Saint Matthew at the Meyerson Symphony Center on March 26, 2018 in ...

‘I have always liked to work toward one goal,” wrote Johann Sebastian Bach in 1708, “namely, to conduct a well-regulated church music to the glory of God.” Bach (1685-1750) composed an immense body of ...