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  • April 15, 2017
    A disturbing season: encountering the Divine in the music of Bach

    These are strange days for those of us whose spiritual lives are not focused on season and liturgy.

  • August 18, 2013
    Bach and back: music that elevates the spirit

    There is an extraordinary elliptical quality to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, which has elevated the human spirit in both religious and non-religious terms over the centuries, says Simon Barrow, introducing a series of performances of the Cello Suites at Just Festival 2013.

  • April 22, 2011
    Wondering again over the Passion

    A setting by an 18th century German composer of a translation into his own tongue of a Greek account of the trial and execution of an Iron Age Mediterranean religious radical, performed in a 15th century English church. This cultural, artistic and creative hybrid has enabled Jill Segger to think afresh about the death of Jesus and its meaning.