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 ...

Bach and the St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven and his claims to universal brotherhood. The essays in this volume investigate Mendelssohn's relationship to the music of the past from a variety of ...

“I think it’s very, very theatrical,” Waltz said of the “St. John ... Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion,” premiered in 1727, brought back into the spotlight by Felix Mendelssohn in 1829 ...