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 ...

An excerpt from J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion, as performed by the Berlin Philharmonic with stage direction by Peter Sellars. Director Peter Sellars doesn't consider what he's done with Bach's ...

‘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 ...

As Oxford Philharmonic begins its Bach Mendelssohn festival at the end of this month, Katy Hamilton looks at the women responsible for Mendelssohn's revelatory discovery of the mighty St Matthew ...

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As has often been the case since his Bach Pilgrimage of 2000, the John Eliot Gardiner of this new, second recording of the St Matthew Passion is a changed conductor from that of the first. That was a ...