2.30pm
Polyphony & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - London
St John's Smith Square, London
Bach: St John Passion
Reviews
Classical Source2012It is a perilously short fall from the grace of tradition to the blight of routine, and it would be understandable if Stephen Layton, who has been dusting off Bach’s St John Passion for Easters innumerable, were to let…Read the review 
The Guardian2012Polyphony's Good Friday performance of Bach's St John Passion has become an annual fixture, but there was no suggestion of routine about this Easter's vital account under the choir's founder-conductor Stephen Layton. Performed…Read the review 
The Observer2012Stephen Layton has forged his own, near folkloric tradition by conducting his elite choir, Polyphony, in Bach's St John Passion every year on Good Friday for at least a decade. Yet nothing about their performance is habitual: the…Read the review