St John Passion
The best recordings of my favourite Passion
Alexandra Coghlan 11 April 2020 9:00 am
In the autumn of 1632, a man called Kaspar Schisler returned home to the small Bavarian town of Oberammergau. He…
Vice and virtue
Alexandra Coghlan 5 October 2017 2:00 pm
‘Can the ultimate betrayal ever be forgiven?’ screams the publicity for The Judas Passion, transforming a Biblical drama into a…
Was Bach as boring as this picture suggests?
Stephen Walsh 26 October 2013 9:00 am
What, one wonders, will John Eliot Gardiner be chiefly remembered for? Perhaps, by many who have worked with him, for…