“Music to combat grief” is John Eliot Gardiner’s apt description of Bach’s Actus Tragicus, coupled on this CD with a timely performance of the Easter Oratorio. Gardiner’s long, in-depth experience of ...

Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion ensemble join forces with a magnificent vocal ensemble to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Actus Tragicus, set to a work by Johann Michael Bach. Program : ...

Actus Tragicus. A presentation of tragedy. With that title, Stuttgart Opera’s production is hardly going to be a bundle of laughs. Yet, the sheer beauty of the Bach cantatas, which lie at the heart of ...

These range from the utterly banal (a housewife doing the ironing – actually the countertenor soloist in drag) to the specific (a couple of men taking technical measurements of one of the rooms) to ...

An evening combining traditional music and contemporary compositions by the Latvian master of introspection. Orchestra and Choir of the Gran Teatre del Liceu By the Orchestra and Choir of the Gran ...

Reviewed by Ewart Shaw, Friday 3rd September 2021. Actus Tragicus stands with Oedipus Rex and King Lear in the catalogue of western masterpieces. The establishment of The Cantata Band in Adelaide ...

Herbert Wernicke was generally regarded as one of the great European opera directors of the last quarter of a century. Very little of his work made it to the UK, but Stuttgart Opera's visit to the ...

In prepping for at least one of his upcoming Vancouver Bach Festival concerts, Thomas Hobbs faced an unusual challenge for a specialist in early music: how to differentiate his performance from the ...

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