“Music to combat grief” is John Eliot Gardiner’s apt description of Bach’s Actus Tragicus, coupled on this CD with a timely performance of the Easter Oratorio. Gardiner’s long, in-depth experience of ...

The Belgian group Vox Luminis pares everything down to the smallest forces. For these early cantatas, eight singers and nine instrumentalists are the maximum used. Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, ...

Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion ensemble join forces with a magnificent vocal ensemble to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Actus Tragicus, set to a work by Johann Michael Bach. Program : ...

Reviewed by Ewart Shaw, Friday 3rd September 2021. Actus Tragicus stands with Oedipus Rex and King Lear in the catalogue of western masterpieces. The establishment of The Cantata Band in Adelaide ...

Bach’s Cantata No 106 is remarkable for its consoling mood and ethereal sound world, dominated by recorders and violas da gamba. Mark Seow assesses a range of approaches to the work ...

Actus Tragicus. A presentation of tragedy. With that title, Stuttgart Opera’s production is hardly going to be a bundle of laughs. Yet, the sheer beauty of the Bach cantatas, which lie at the heart of ...

An evening combining traditional music and contemporary compositions by the Latvian master of introspection. Orchestra and Choir of the Gran Teatre del Liceu By the Orchestra and Choir of the Gran ...

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