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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-03-17 15:40:31
Take a Chance on Mark!
Nicholas Church, Leipzig This March has truly been a Bach spectacular in Boston. Starting with Boston Baroque’s St. John Passion in late February and Musica Sacra’s B Minor Mass last weekend, the exposure will continue with all-day birthday celebrations on March 21st at First Lutheran Church, with St. John again at Emmanuel Music, and the Handel & Haydn Society’s St. Matthew Passion on the 27th; the spectacle concludes at King’s Chapel with a rarely performed Bach work readers probably have not heard before. Though musical settings of the Passion story were quite common in the Baroque era, only Bach’s two towering masterpieces are often performed today. Where Bach only occasionally interjected contemporary words into the gospel text for arias and choruses, other composers such as Handel and Telemann used the famous text of Hamburg poet Barthold Heinrich Brockes who wrote a libretto where the entire story was told in […]
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