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 ...

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 ...

A few years ago we began a tradition here at Classical 101. We present Johann Sebastian Bach’s Matthaus-Passion The St. Matthew Passion on Good Friday evening at 7pm. This year we will hear a newly ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

The hall is packed, and the stage, too, with Toronto’s Tafelmusik orchestra and choir divided into two groups, plus a children’s chorus in the balcony. Masaaki Suzuki, one of the greatest living ...

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 ...

It was almost a foregone conclusion that the Gabrieli Consort and Players' performance of the St Matthew Passion would be the most controversial version of the work to be heard over Easter. Paul ...

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 ...