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.

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 ...

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Guitarist Paul Galbraith makes the case that Johann Sebastian Bach's sonatas and partitas depict the life, death and resurrection of Christ with his eight-string guitar. So we were sitting around the ...

For Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday today and as we near Easter we'll look ahead with his complete "Easter Oratorio" in which biblical characters sing of their discovery that Christ has risen. It’s ...

What soundtrack to the Passion of the Christ, Pesach, or the Easter bunny? Bach wrote eight cantatas for Easter that survived, the Easter-Oratorio, and the two Passions. That’s standard stuff and ...

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 ...

Frankly, I would have thrilled even to a merely good performance of the B minor Mass given its location in Eisenach’s Georgenkirche, which is to Bach lovers what Bethlehem is to Christians (not that ...

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 ...

In this episode, we’re featuring selections of the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei from this larger-than-life work. I have chosen this particular work to air on this holiday because I ...

As Passover and Easter approach, we’re well warned of enduring some of our hardest coronavirus days. These are serious holidays that alert us to world-altering shifts. For Jews it was the throwing off ...

So we were sitting around the other day, my colleagues and I were wondering what's some new amazing music that would sound perfect this Easter evening? So we looked and looked and we listened to all ...