Bach St John Passion

Johann Sebastian Bachs St John Passion with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle was one of the outstanding events of the past season As before with the St Matthew Passion star director Peter Sellars succeeded in creating a staging which made the spiritual and dramatic content of the Passion story even more intensive The New York Times also praised the brilliant and energetic playing of the orchestra the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung the haunting almost unsurpassable singing of all those involved