Concert Review: St John Passion/JS Bach/ The Choir Of St James’ King Street/ The Australian Haydn Ensemble

Concert Review: St John Passion/JS Bach/ The Choir Of St James’ King Street/ The Australian Haydn Ensemble

St John Passion – J S Bach The Choir of St James’ with The Australian Haydn Ensemble St James’ Church, King Street, Sydney 28 March 2015 J S Bach’s St John Passion is not performed as often as his better-known St Matthew Passion, The St James’ performance in the church’s sympathetic acoustic was conducted by Warren Trevelyan-Jones who…

St John At St James’

St John At St James’

Ever since its first performance in Leipzig on Good Friday 1724, J.S. Bach’s setting of the St John Passion BWV 245,  has been a mainstay of the Lenten musical calendar in both concert hall and church. Bach’s emotive, Baroque setting recounts the harrowing last days of Jesus of Nazareth. A solo narrative of the events leading…

Concert Review: Songs Of Remembrance/The Choir Of St James’ King Street

Concert Review: Songs Of Remembrance/The Choir Of St James’ King Street

Over the past few years, Remembrance Day seems to have grown in the public heart. Of a more universal scope than its January counterpart, ANZAC Day, Remembrance Day’s theme is of the senseless suffering worldwide caused by war. With the increasing prominence of the commemoration comes a similar realisation of the quality of the associated…