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ParisPassion selon Saint Matthieu

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Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Collegium 1704; Václav Luks; Céline Scheen; Tereza Zimková; Luciana Mancini; Aneta Petrasová
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Emotional Mozart at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival

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Gianluca Capuano leads a great ensemble in a thoughtful, emotional reading of Mozart’s Mass in C minor

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Epiphany and comfort: Bach’s St Matthew Passion lights up Lucerne

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

Invigorating in the pit, Britten’s Billy Budd never gets its sea legs on the National Theatre stage.
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Theater an der Wien: Lazarus

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.
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A One-Per-Part St Matthew Passion in Vienna

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.
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Das Drama auf Golgatha: Bachs Johannes-Passion am Opernhaus Zürich

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Die Zürcher Sing-Akademie und das Orchester La Scintilla unter Florian Helgath begeistern mit einer hochkarätigen Wiedergabe des Bach‘schen Oratorienwerks. Sie steht im Zeichen des neuen Barockfestivals am Opernhaus.
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