| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 18-Oct-2012 Auckland Town Hall | Revelatory B minor Mass from the Auckland Philharmonia and Stephen Layton |
 The Mass in B minor was completed in 1749, the year before Bach’s death. Much of the work consists of music Bach composed much earlier in his life (the Kyrie and Gloria from one of the Lutheran Masses). The sections he added latter were among the last things he wrote before he died.Read full review... | |
| 6-Apr-2012 Wiener Minoritenkirche | A One-Per-Part St Matthew Passion in Vienna |
 Joshua Rifkin’s theory that Bach had no ‘choir’ in the modern sense may have gradually inched its way towards acceptance, but for all the heated discussion his research has generated, one-per-part Passions are rarer than one might suppose. Austrian conductor and choral director Martin Haselböck is absolutely convinced of the theory’s authenticity and promised in an excitedly worded programme note that this performance would give us a St Matthew Passion as Bach conceived it in scale and interpretation.
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| 23-Apr-2011 Sage: Hall One | Northern Sinfonia: St John Passion - with passion |
| For lovers of choral music, a Bach Passion or Handel’s Messiah are as much part of Easter as chocolate eggs, and this year’s musical treat at the Sage Gateshead was Bach’s St John Passion, played by Northern Sinfonia with debut guest conductor Matthew Hall. I’ll admit straight away that this is one of my favourite pieces of music, so my standards were going to be high: happily Northern Sinfonia and their excellent chorus did not disappoint.
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