| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 15-Dec-2012 Lincoln Center: Alice Tully Hall | Not another Messiah: Herreweghe's Christmas Oratorio in NYC |
 The Christmas Oratorio is an odd work to perform in concert, but it makes a welcome change from the obligatory annual Messiah. Bach’s piece contains six separate cantatas that tell the traditional Nativity narrative, all subsumed under the broader theme. But this is not the St Matthew Passion with added shepherds and Magi, even though many of the chorale settings from the Passions find their way into the Oratorio. These six cantatas were designed to be heard spread over the period between Christmas and Epiphany.Read full review... | |
| 2-Sep-2012 Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn | From Bach to Buxtehude: Oude Muziek Festival bridges the generation gap |
 The world’s largest gathering of early music artists and professionals, the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, marked its final concert on Sunday 2 September with a full-house performance by the Collegium Vocale Gent. Led by Philippe Herreweghe, the ensemble has been dedicated since the 1970s to the pursuit of Baroque sonorities and performance practice. The concert itself marked the end of the 13-day event, which every year brings the world’s best Baroque musicians to the lovely and quaint city of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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| 31-Mar-2012 Lincoln Center: Alice Tully Hall | Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent: St. Matthew Passion at the Lincoln Center |
 On Saturday, Philippe Herreweghe conducted the season’s most solemn yet spectacular oratorio concert in New York – a performance of J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Scored for two choirs, two orchestras, and soloists, this almost operatic depiction of Christ’s Passion was performed by Herreweghe’s Collegium Vocale Gent Choir and Orchestra.
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