Great Britain is a country of rich cathedral choir traditions. It has played a key role in the reevaluation of baroque vocal music through the insights of historically informed performance practice. The famous King's Consort will perform the "St. Matthew Passion" as Bach himself originally conceived it.

One thing is certain when we attend a performance of the "St. Matthew Passion" by Johann Sebastian Bach: We will encounter one of the pinnacles of music history. Bach's contemporaries, however, experienced this work in a different way. They were hearing liturgical music specifically composed for the Good Friday Service and thus focused on its effectiveness for this particular occasion. But the situation changed dramatically in 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted a performance in Berlin that was a spectacular success and revealed a first-rate work of art. In the ensuing century and a half, Bach's Passion became a kind of aesthetic "cult object" that inspired a wide and continually changing spectrum of performance choices: from thoughtless abridgments to bombastic arrangements for hundreds of singers accompanied by a full-scale symphony orchestra that performed on modern instruments. Robert King and his King's Consort, one of the most prestigious ensembles devoted to historically informed performance practice, goes back to the roots of the work. On March 25 they will perform the "St. Matthew Passion" in its original form. You won't be able to find a more authentic approach to Bach's score.
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