Synopsis

Johann Sebastian Bach's monumental St. Matthew Passion masterfully blends moments of profound fragility and tenderness with powerful choral sections and bursts of triumphant joy, interweaving bitter grief with passages of solace. Its vast scope and ambition, realized through double chorus and orchestra, make it a work ideally suited to a venue like the Royal Albert Hall. Building on their compelling 2018 performance of Handel’s *Theodora*, period-instrument ensemble Arcangelo, led by conductor J