Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his St. Matthew Passion for a single purpose—to present the biblical passion story, in music, at Good Friday vesper services. Bach's Passion continues to move audiences ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

Yes. The reason Bach's St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, divides the first and second choirs is not simply to "increase the number of people," but to construct the work itself three-dimensionally using a ...

A man of the church, not the theater, Bach did not write for dance. But dance was at his core. His instrumental suites, partitas and concertos, made of dance forms, can include some of the most ...

JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion is a three-hour musical portrayal of Christ’s suffering that can be an ordeal but, with guidance, a magnificent one says Damian Thompson Velasquez's Christ on the Cross, ...

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his St. Matthew Passion for a single purpose — to present the Passion story in music at Good Friday vesper services. Bach's Passion continues to move audiences nearly three ...