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 ...

2 Full Cast Set For RHINOCEROS at American Repertory Theater, Led by Tatiana Maslany and More 3 Full Cast Set For DIRTY DANCING: THE MUSICAL North American Tour 4 OVER THE GARDEN WALL Live Tour to ...

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 ...

As has often been the case since his Bach Pilgrimage of 2000, the John Eliot Gardiner of this new, second recording of the St Matthew Passion is a changed conductor from that of the first. That was a ...

‘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 ...