Despite an historically inaccurate interpretation by Charles Munch, Bach's St. Matthew Passion received a generally good performance yesterday from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, five soloists ...

As Oxford Philharmonic begins its Bach Mendelssohn festival at the end of this month, Katy Hamilton looks at the women responsible for Mendelssohn's revelatory discovery of the mighty St Matthew Passi ...

Waltz is an ardent admirer of the “St. John Passion,” a work that has often stood in the shadow of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion,” premiered in 1727, brought back into the spotlight by ...

He shows how Matthew makes his case for Jesus as the Davidic messiah in the passion narrative by alluding to texts in which David, too, suffered. Matthew thereby participates in a common intertextual, ...