Award winning conductor Stephen Layton directs the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and soloists in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Written in 1734, to be performed on consecutive ...

Bach Akademie Australia brings to life Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, a Baroque masterpiece that beautifully captures the joy, wonder, and mystery of the Nativity. These special performances, marking the ...

In one of the most country’s most beautiful spiritual spaces, a superlative group of musicians and singers are raising the roof on the most magical night of the year. The 14th-century chapel at New ...

For some, Handel’s “Messiah” remains a cherished ritual. For others, it has become so predictable as to feel almost unavoidable — a seasonal monument polished smooth by repetition. This season, the ...

In the historic Weimar Herder Church Sir John Eliot Gardiner finds the perfect setting for his recording of the Bach Christmas Oratorio. Against the backdrop of the dramatic altar and Lucas Granach ...

An orchestra from Cleveland called Apollo's Fire has become prominent in recent years. They're recognized for their crisp, clean performances and interesting interpretations of Baroque music. Starting ...

The Kreuz Church Choir of Dresden is world famous. Here they're performing Part One of the Christmas Oratorio by J.S. Bach. The Dresden Boys' Choir, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, and soloists are ...

Making a thrilling London debut, the Oxford Bach Soloists continue their quest to perform all of the composer’s vocal works over 12 years. Elsewhere, a revelatory reading of Arvo Pärt An exciting ...

Bach Akademie Australia brings to life Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, a Baroque masterpiece that beautifully captures the joy, wonder, and mystery of the Nativity. These special performances, marking the ...

Along with the singers of Polyphony, their performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at the Barbican flung an exultant riposte back at the self-contradictory bureaucrats of Arts Council England. Last ...

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote over 200 church cantatas, and the Bach Collegium Japan is intent on performing every one of them — and in fact did so, in chronological order, from 1995 to 2013. The group ...