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Christianity's instinct for theater culminates in the ritualized recounting of the last days of Jesus' life. Telling the Passion story can range from the simple recitation of Bible verses to the ...

Not that the Arcangelo choir and players, then or at any point during Bach’s inexhaustible miracle, ever skimped on drama and impact. Once more, after last week’s spectacular with the Monteverdi Choir ...

But the choir has not been deaf to more recent developments, or to the rise of period performance practice. They now sing with period instrument ensemble Florilegium, and the choir’s musical director, ...

Reporting from London — Bach’s “St. Matthew” Passion, that most exalted of music’s numinous monuments, was performed Saturday night by the exalted Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by the exalted Simon ...

It took Eric Holtan and his True Concord Voices & Orchestra seven years before they were ready to mount Bach’s B Minor Mass. Three years later, they did Bach’s even more ambitious St. John Passion in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Bernard Labadie led the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and three choirs, in Bach’s sprawling, meditative masterpiece. By Joshua Barone Of Bach’s two ...

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 ...

BEREA, Ohio -- The centerpiece of this year's Baldwin-Wallace University Bach Festival, the 84th festival held since its inception in 1932, was "The Passion According to St. Matthew," perhaps the ...