Messiah 1741

So well known as to be the stuff of legend, Handel composed Messiah in the white heat of inspiration in London during the late summer…

Messias 1789

After Handel’s death in 1759 the fame of Messiah spread abroad to his native homeland. Within a decade the attempts to create a German singing…

J.S. Bach Markus-Passion

S. Bach wrote Passion settings not only for the gospels of St Matthew and St Luke, but for St Mark as well. But his Markus-Passion…

Grosse Passions-Musik : Mendelssohn meets Bach’s Matthäus-Passion

Reconstructing Bach’s Markus-Passion is like re-building a temple from the fragments of the famous Parthenon marbles. With the tantilising, yet half-complete remains of an irretrievably…