Five years ago, the Westminster Choir performed J.S. Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” at Spoleto Festival USA to broad acclaim. This year the choir will perform St. John’s telling of the crucifixion of ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion,” which had its premiere on Good Friday 1724, doesn’t so much begin as erupt. In the swirling, agitated strings and piercing cries of oboes, we instantly ...

If you went to the Good Friday Vespers service at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig 300 years ago, the choir, led by your cantor J. S. Bach, would have performed a little number, the St. John Passion, ...

With hymns and solos covering part of the Gospel of John, Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion” is a big undertaking. “It’s a huge piece for chorus and orchestra and soloists,” Tom Remenschneider ...

Johann Sebastian Bach was passionate about his Passions. The great Baroque composer, a devout Lutheran, wrote no fewer than five of them, according to his obituary, which was written by his son, Carl ...

Described as a musical masterpiece and immersive experience that speaks to the soul, the newly founded Augustana Bach Collegium invites you to celebrate the intersection of faith and the arts through ...

This Passion is visceral and violent, with ear-severing, beating, scourging, leg-breaking and – as John Eliot Gardiner hears it in that “overture” – nails being driven through hands to the cross.

The storied composition will be performed in Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church, beside Bach’s tomb. St. John’s Passion, one of the most celebrated works of J. S. Bach, will live stream on Good Friday, on ...