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...credit for rescuing a concert abandoned by its soloists at the last moment belongs to Robert Baker. He kept the orchestra together through the difficulties inevitable in such a situation. His sense of ensemble balance, his greatest asset as a conductor, has been a tremendous gain to the Bach Society...
GOOD FRIDAY was commemorated in traditional style in Sanders Theater, as F. John Adams led the Collegium Musicum and a talented group of soloists and instrumentalists in an emotional performance of Bach's The Passion According to St. John...
During the Middle Ages, the Passion of Jesus was traditionally performed as part of the Roman Catholic liturgy for this season. Gradually music was added to the drama and the passion-oratorio began to emerge. Bach, who brought the form to its highest expression, wrote five of these passions of which two--St. Matthew and St. John--survive today. In them, Bach interweaves recitatives and choruses which tell the story with arias and chorales which comment...
...major dramatic burden falls on the Evangelist, an emotionally involved narrator. Karl Dan Sorensen performed brilliantly in this demanding role. Within the confining limits of the baroque recitative, a form which Bach uses with variety and subtlety, Sorensen sang with remarkable expression. With flawless intonation and a profound understanding of the text, he gave a beautiful and deeply moving performance...
...John Passion, Bach transforms one of the most beautiful and pervasive myths of all time into a monumental work of art. Adams, Sorensen, and the other performers revealed that monument to us in all its power and glory...