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La Scintilla and the Zürcher Sing-Akademie performs Bach at the KKL hall in Lucerne.

Invigorating in the pit, Britten’s Billy Budd never gets its sea legs on the National Theatre stage.

Schubert's unfinished oratorio Lazarus joined with other interesting works by both Schubert and Charles Ives in a staged performance at the Theater an der Wien, directed by Claus Guth. Strongly cast, the musical juxtaposition works better than the oratorio itself, and the rather cold dramaturgy.

Joshua Rifkin’s theory that Bach had no ‘choir’ in the modern sense may have gradually inched its way towards acceptance, but for all the heated discussion his research has generated, one-per-part Passions are rarer than one might suppose.