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 ...

It's a concept that would have made Johann Sebastian Bach scoff. His St. John Passion is 300 years old, and it invites its listeners to grapple with those exact topics.

Bach's "St. Mark Passion" has been long lost. This reconstruction, coming to Seattle, combines detective work on the music and innovative staging — along with a prominent role for a former "Fresh ...

That is how one could summarize the theme of the "St. John Passion" by Johann Sebastian Bach. The composition, alongside Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, is considered by many to be one of the ...

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 ...

Played by the Art House 17 orchestra on period instruments, Höft's work uses as its musical basis Johann Sebastian Bach's famous St. John Passion, based on the Gospel story of the suffering of Jesus ...

Bach Collegium on Sunday will perform Johann Sebastian Bach's "St. John Passion," which is 300 years old this year.

The first thing we hear in Sasha Waltz’s production of the “St. John Passion” (“Johannes-Passion”) is not the mournful opening notes of the sacred oratorio, written by Johann Sebastian ...