Dame Jane Glover leads the Music of the Baroque Chorus, Orchestra, and four world renowned soloistsYulia Van Doren, Elizabeth DeShong, James Gilchrist, and Michael Sumuelin Bachs imaginative Easter ...
Canadian maestro Bernard Labadie, one of the leading interpreters of the Baroque and Classical repertoire, conducts the first-ever SF Symphony performances of Bach's Easter Oratorio, a spectacular ...
The St Georges Cathedral Consort and The West Australian Symphony Orchestra under Conductor Joseph Nolan in a celebration of Easter. Sara Macliver, Fiona Campbell, Paul McMahon and James Clayton join ...
The Cleveland Orchestra Bernard Labadie, conductor Joélle Harvey, soprano Adèle Charvet, mezzo soprano Andrew Haji, tenor Gordon Bintner, bass-baritone The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Bright trumpet ...
At the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Peter Whelan – much-garlanded director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra – led the Orchestra (and Choir) of the Age of Enlightenment (along with a quartet of accomplished ...
“Music to combat grief” is John Eliot Gardiner’s apt description of Bach’s Actus Tragicus, coupled on this CD with a timely performance of the Easter Oratorio. Gardiner’s long, in-depth experience of ...
Bach got what he deserved last Friday evening. That is, the perfect setting for his music at Lehigh University’s Packer Memorial Church. Built in 1885, it provided a restful setting for the “Easter ...
Soprano Sara Macliver to sing Bach’s Easter oratorio St John Passion with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra For soprano Sara Macliver, singing Bach’s traditional Easter oratorio St John Passion with the ...
Classical music events taper off in the weeks before and after Passover and Easter, but here are three performances that shouldn’t be missed during these spring holidays. – On Thursday, guest ...
Lovers of Baroque sacred music will find it tough to choose between two new CD releases. Both are well-nigh-flawless accounts of familiar sacred choral works by Bach and Vivaldi and both are bursting ...
An emotionally convincing account of Bach’s Easter Oratorio – brilliantly structured and sung, though somewhat overshadowed by its own generous pairing Nola Richardson (s); Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (c-t); ...
In an interview with then music director of the Washington National Opera Heinz Fricke back in 2007, I asked him as a seasonal aside, whether there was any particular music for Easter that he liked.