Tag: Bachs
We are the mob: Sasha Waltz choreographs Bach’s St. John Passion in Salzburg – Culture
Can, can, should you do that? A good forty years ago, when Hamburg’s ballet director John Neumeier dared to tackle Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, the theater crowd shuddered.…
Bach’s “Markus Passion” in Munich: Concert Review – Munich
We know the St. Matthew or St. John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach during Lent. So why not try the St. Mark Passion by the same composer, as the choir…
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in the Isarphilharmonie – Culture
A lot feels different this year at a performance of the six cantatas from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Because it has become anchored in the awareness that there will…
Music with hands and feet: Researchers measured Bach’s extremities – health
Rejoice, rejoice – good and beautiful. Come on, praise the days in which the ritual visit to the Christmas Oratorio is due. But central questions arise around the major musical…
JS Bach’s cantatas: This music gives new strength
The Leipzig Cantatas from 1723 proclaim JS Bach’s genius: for the magnificent new recording by Hans-Christoph Rademann. source site
Ulrich Rasche stages Bach’s St. John Passion – Culture in Stuttgart
From Egbert Tholl Ulrich Rasche is probably the most consistent director in German-language theatre. He builds machines. They are often huge, monstrous rollers, multi-storey turntables, on which people walk and…
Alexander Grychtolik has reconstructed Bach’s Passion Oratorio – Culture
From Michael Stallknecht There would be no Lent, and certainly no Holy Week without the “St Matthew Passion” and the “St John Passion” by Johann Sebastian Bach. Only the Alte…
Munich: Piano duo Tal/Groethuysen with Bach’s “The Art of Fugue” – Munich
Johann Sebastian Bach’s last (study) work “The Art of Fugue”, which may not even have been intended for a performance, can be played on the harpsichord, the organ, as a…
Bach’s groundbreaking “Well-Tempered Clavier” is 200 years old – culture
The pianist and conductor Hans von Bülow praised this with the catchphrase “The Old Testament of the Piano Players”. “Well-Tempered Clavier” Johann Sebastian Bach’s pearl necklace of 24 preludes and…
Bach’s St Matthew Passion: Munich Bach Choir and Collegium Vocale Gent – Munich
Yes, of course Bach would have composed an opera if the opportunity had presented itself. But the Thomaskantor had to stick to the sacred, for example a St. Matthew Passion,…