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It was indeed fateful that Howells should have found himself in Cambridge during the Second World War in order to stand in for the recently appointed St John's College Organist Robin Orr, who was on active service in the RAF intelligence. Having contributed little of any significance to Anglican liturgical music for two decades, Howells found the renewed experience of choral services (one he had...
La Passion selon Saint Jean au Théâtre des Champs Elysées
La Passion selon Saint Jean de Jean-Sébastien Bach a fait étape au Théâtre des Champs Elysées avec Stephen Layton à la baguette. Le maestro britannique dirigeait l’Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment le mercredi 23 mars pour une version puissante et émouvante de l’oeuvre monumentale du compositeur germanique. Le public de l’institution...
Witnesses of a trial
An English guest performance: St John Passion in the Alte Oper
Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion is a pre-Easter must everywhere. His St John Passion BWV 245, however, which is preserved in various settings, none of which can be called the authentic version or ‘definitive edition’, still stands in the shadow of the more opulent and vaster sister piece. Whereas it is...
Jesus as the ruler of his own fate
Stephen Layton with a bravura performance of Bach's St John Passion at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. With Ian Bostridge as the evangelist.
The vocal sound is characterized by a ‘slim wealth’, hence not by monumental force. Twenty-six singers are grouped on the choir stage: Thus, the British conductor Stephen Layton is not persuaded by the now ever more popular one...
St John Passion in the Alte Oper in Frankfurt - A British-style passion
Frankfurt – They have long since nationally appropriated the Baroque Saxon Georg Friedrich Händel, who worked in England for long stretches. And even concerning historical performance research, the British have established themselves as front-runners.
This is not only confirmed by Sir Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir....
Frankfurt - Den lange in England wirkenden barocken Sachsen Georg Friedrich Händel haben sie längst national vereinnahmt. Und selbst bei der historischen Klangforschung sind die Briten vorn dabei. Von Klaus Ackermann
Das bestätigen nicht nur Sir Eliot Gardiner und sein Monteverdi Choir, sondern auch der Londoner Chor Polyphony, das stets experimentierfreudige Orchestra oft the Age of...