Bach’s Easter Oratorio | Bach Akademie Australia - Night Writes

Bach’s Easter Oratorio | Bach Akademie Australia - Night Writes

Stand-out movements from “Easter Oratorio” included Lawergren’s aria in the fifth movement where her crystalline voice was supported by a dreamy flute played by Mikaela Oberg as well as the cello, harpsichord, and organ for an overall mesmerising effect.

Easter Oratorio: Bach’s imagination magnificently vitalised - Classikon

Easter Oratorio: Bach’s imagination magnificently vitalised - Classikon

As anticipated with Bach, the music covered an emotional range from the reflective to the ecstatic, achieved through his customary stimulating and continually changing combination of voices and instruments, and ingenious setting of words. Aside from their beauty, the works all illustrated the staggering reach of Bach’s imagination, magnificently vitalised by the prodigiously accomplished vocalists and excellent orchestra.

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