Over 280 years after its first performance, Bach’s St Matthew Passion still exerts an unbroken fascination. The present recording was...

The fascination of Johann Sebastian Bach’s compositions is as strong as ever: his Passions count among the best known works of sacred music....

There are at least two Passion settings by Johann Sebastian Bach: those according to the Gospels of St John and St Matthew. In light of the...

Heinrich Schütz performed his St John Passion at the Dresden court on Good Friday 1666. The choir of the Hochschule für...

The three cantatas recorded on this disc form part of the first cycle of cantatas which Johann Sebastian Bach presented to the congregation...

Bach composed numerous cantatas for Easter, three of which - Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 4), Der Himmel lacht, die Erde jubilieret (BWV...

Performed for the first time in Hamburg in 1781, forgotten for 200 years, lost for 50, rediscovered in Kiev in 1999, and spectacularly...

Andre Caplet (1878-1925) is mainly known as a friend and student of Claude Debussy. Inspired by whose idea of sound he developed a musical...

‘We want more!’, critics rejoiced after the Vienna Vocal Consort’s release of Byrd. Certainly! Now, the Vienna-based vocal ensemble presents...