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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Berkshire Lyric Chorus returns to Seiji Ozawa Hall 3 p.m. May 31 for a performance of J.S. Bach's "St. Matthew Passion," an ...

In this episode of DW Festival Concert with Cristina Burack, we listen to the St. Mathew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach. It's a piece that tells the story of Christ's crucifixion and death. Every ...

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 ...

Three-time Grammy-nominated tenor Nicholas Phan returns to the New York Philharmonic under Jaap van Zweden this spring to sing the Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion (March 23-25). As one of the ...

Singers and musicians navigate Bach’s St Matthew Passion with great balance and communication – and no conductor Soloists of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, playing on period instruments, ...

‘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 ...

Holy Week in the Christian year is the week leading up to Easter Sunday. It's a time for Christians to reflect on Jesus' journey to the cross, beginning with his entry into Jerusalem and concluding ...

Bach’s St Matthew Passion begins as though it has already begun. “Come, ye daughters,” sing the chorus over a churning, darkly surging orchestra, “help me lament.” From the opening bars, we’re plunged ...

One of Bach's two famous sacred oratorios, this amazing piece was first performed on 11 April 1727 in Leipzig. Good Friday 1727 in Leipzig was a particularly good Good Friday, thanks to the ...