Christmas music is the easier one, of course. Come December and every church and concert hall fills up with the sounds of song, led by Handel's "Messiah" and a medley of carols. But Easter has plenty ...

Choral music uses human voices to tell human stories. From the sacred to the secular, the sorrowful to the celebratory, there is something profoundly moving about voices raised together in song. Much ...

What soundtrack to the Passion of the Christ, Pesach, or the Easter bunny? Bach wrote eight cantatas for Easter that survived, the Easter-Oratorio, and the two Passions. That’s standard stuff and ...

There’s been some lovely music composed for Easter, including a brand-new recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Easter Oratorio, which he wrote to celebrate the holiday in Leipzig, Germany, in 1725.

On Saturday night Brighton Dome plays host to a special Easter-themed classical concert. EDWIN GILSON found out more from the man behind the music IT IS often said that the tradition of Easter has ...

Opera companies around the world, making much in their archives free to view right now, have served up the natural seasonal choice, and they have: there are at least nine choices right now, and they ...

Classical music events taper off in the weeks before and after Passover and Easter, but here are three performances that shouldn’t be missed during these spring holidays. – On Thursday, guest ...

Do you think Easter has already passed this year? Not quite. For about 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians around the globe, Easter is actually today, April 15th. From Jerusalem to Athens, ...