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 ...

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 ...

Conducted by Music Director Rossen Milanov, the Columbus Symphony will perform Johann Sebastian Bach's transformative and life-changing St. John's Passion in its entirety. Considered the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Sunday, the University’s performance of Bach St. John Passion will transport Rockefeller Chapel from modern day Hyde Park to 18th century Leipzig. The Rockefeller Chapel Choir and Orchestra, ...

The American Classical Orchestra continues its 40th anniversary season with a performance of Bach's grand choral masterwork, the St. John Passion, on Thursday, January 30. The concert is the second of ...

Upper Valley Baroque will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterpiece, St. John Passion, in Leipzig, Germany, in 1724. It proved so important to the composer ...

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.

Bach’s most dramatic setting of the Passion text is brought to life by Armonico Consort and one of the world’s greatest tenors, Ian Bostridge. Experience Bach’s exquisitely beautiful arias, ...