An extraordinarily moving Bach passion contained intensity, radiance and, from Nick Pritchard, the finest live account of the Evangelist this critic has heard Stephen Layton’s annual performance of ...

On Good Friday at London’s St John’s Smith Square, Stephen Layton will conduct Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Bach’s St John Passion. These Polyphony performances of the ...

Bach’s legacy will be the focus of a festival-within-a-festival opening at Lincoln Center, Friday. But the opening performance features a predecessor he never knew he had. The Bach & Polyphonies ...

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 ...

Layton (pictured below), however, rung unexpected changes by giving us Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Oratorio intercut with another festive favourite: Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, performed after the first ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By James R. Oestreich When the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center was being revamped a decade or so ago, some thought that it ...

In his cantatas, Johann Sebastian Bach creates sacred music with great expressive power and a very intimate connection between text and music. He adds modern, operatic forms such as aria and ...

The grand 2019 collaboration between Steve Reich and Gerhard Richter faces stiff competition from an Anna Clyne miniature, while the OAE and Polyphony join forces in outstanding Easter Bach The ...

For many, the story of Christ’s arrest, trial and Crucifixion finds its perfect musical incarnation in Bach’s St Matthew Passion. The St John Passion, its unruly younger sibling, is less well-known ...