In an interview with then music director of the Washington National Opera Heinz Fricke back in 2007, I asked him as a seasonal aside, whether there was any particular music for Easter that he liked.

Acclaimed early music ensemble TENET Vocal Artists, led by Artistic Director Jolle Greenleaf, next presents in its 2022-23 season lineup Bach's spectacular Magnificat and Easter Oratorio. Held at ...

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' has announced the return of their annual Easter Saturday concert, presenting one of Bach's enduring choral masterworks, the St John Passion, interspersed with contemporary ...

A Bach concert in Dresden. Photo: DPA Given the fact that modern German culture often seems like a poor shadow of Anglophone culture, finding music and theatre that grips you can be a struggle. But ...

For Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday today and as we near Easter we'll look ahead with his complete "Easter Oratorio" in which biblical characters sing of their discovery that Christ has risen. It’s ...

This weekend, Christians remember Christ’s suffering on the Cross and his resurrection three days later. When it comes to the music for events in the Christian calendar, Easter is largely overshadowed ...

“Music to combat grief” is John Eliot Gardiner’s apt description of Bach’s Actus Tragicus, coupled on this CD with a timely performance of the Easter Oratorio. Gardiner’s long, in-depth experience of ...

At the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Peter Whelan – much-garlanded director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra – led the Orchestra (and Choir) of the Age of Enlightenment (along with a quartet of accomplished ...

FOR EASTER this year the city of Leipzig, Germany, shared some of its rich musical history with Bratislava when one of the oldest German choirs, Robert-Franz-Sing-akademie Halle, performed Johann ...

Lovers of Baroque sacred music will find it tough to choose between two new CD releases. Both are well-nigh-flawless accounts of familiar sacred choral works by Bach and Vivaldi and both are bursting ...

In this episode, we’re featuring selections of the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei from this larger-than-life work. I have chosen this particular work to air on this holiday because I ...

Guitarist Paul Galbraith makes the case that Johann Sebastian Bach's sonatas and partitas depict the life, death and resurrection of Christ with his eight-string guitar. So we were sitting around the ...