It’s hard to believe that Maxim Emelyanychev hasn’t conducted Bach’s St Matthew Passion before. Okay, it’s a piece that’s well enough known – a vast, multi-movement contemplation of Christ’s last days ...

Bach’s razor-sharp choral drama is a stretch for even a professional chorus when it’s taken at full pelt, so maybe it was ...

I attended the first day of the two-day performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion by Yoshimichi Hamada and Anthonello, which ...

The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras will perform Bach's ST MATTHEW PASSION at London's St Martin-in-the-Fields on Feb 9, ...

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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 ...