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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

An excerpt from J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion, as performed by the Berlin Philharmonic with stage direction by Peter Sellars. Director Peter Sellars doesn't consider what he's done with Bach's ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Anthony Tommasini The director Peter Sellars believes that Bach wrote his “St. Matthew Passion” not as a concert work or theater piece but as a ...