Bach’s legacy will be the focus of a festival-within-a-festival opening at Lincoln Center, Friday. But the opening performance features a predecessor he never knew he had. The Bach & Polyphonies ...
The grand 2019 collaboration between Steve Reich and Gerhard Richter faces stiff competition from an Anna Clyne miniature, while the OAE and Polyphony join forces in outstanding Easter Bach The ...
Along with the singers of Polyphony, their performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at the Barbican flung an exultant riposte back at the self-contradictory bureaucrats of Arts Council England. Last ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By James R. Oestreich When the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center was being revamped a decade or so ago, some thought that it ...
Stephen Layton conducted both Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for this stirring afternoon, in which the opening movement sounded like a brewing storm. At first it sounded ...
In his cantatas, Johann Sebastian Bach creates sacred music with great expressive power and a very intimate connection between text and music. He adds modern, operatic forms such as aria and ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Vivien Schweitzer As wild and unfamiliar yodeling unfolded over startling harmonies and complex rhythmic patterns in Alice Tully Hall ...