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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
David Hill, conductor of Yale Schola Cantorum and professor (adjunct) at the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, will leave Yale at the conclusion of the spring term. His final concert on campus will be a performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor on April 27 followed by a ten-day U.K. tour with Schola Cantorum and the period orchestra Juilliard415.
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In the upcoming performances of “St. Matthew Passion,” BWV 244 by J.S. Bach, in South Korea, renowned countertenor Philippe Jaroussky will join forces with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra conducted by Francesco Corti. Jaroussky will sing “Erbarme dich,” in the three-hour-long performance. “I’ve been working specifically on this aria for more than 6 months! I think the difficulty is ...
Bach's masterpiece first premiered on Good Friday 1724. His composition is an unparalleled appeal for more humanity.
If you went to the Good Friday Vespers service at St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig 300 years ago, the choir, led by your cantor J. S. Bach, would have performed a little number, the St. John Passion, that would have doubtless moved you greatly as a meditation on the atoning death of Jesus Christ. An account of a performance and its meaning.