Since 2011, when conductor John Nelson directed the first installment of a rotating cycle of J.S. Bach’s three big sacred choral masterpieces with his Chicago Bach Project chorus and orchestra, ...
We began in a severe, even austere, mood, with a grave stillness and almost liturgical solemnity, and even with a fairly restrained Gloria. Then, somewhere around (to my ears) the Gratias agimus tibi, ...
The zeppelin wasn’t patented for nearly 150 years after the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, but such an airship lifting into the sky was the first image that came to mind as Andris Nelsons raised his ...