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.

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 ...

Bach in his full grieving glory remains confined to the screen, but how good to catch it all in performances from Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre and Stockholm’s Berwald Hall, home to the Swedish Radio ...

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 ...