Bach St Matthew Passion
Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland
March-April 2010
In the days before Easter 2010 The King's Consort and Choir of The King's Consort under the baton of Robert King toured Bach's magnificent St Matthew Passion to world-class venues across Europe. Soloists for this large-scale project included soprano Julia Doyle, alto Diana Moore, tenors Jan Kobow, James Gilchrist and Joshua Ellicott and basses David Wilson-Johnson and Ben Davies.
The tour opened in Switzerland with a sell-out concert in Lucerne's stunning KKL Hall for the Lucerne Easter Festival (March 25), travelled to Madrid's magnificent Auditorio Nacional (March 28) and then moved on to another sell-out performance, this time at the world-famous Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (March 31), and concluded as a highlight of the famous Easter celebrations in Cuenca, Spain, on Maundy Thursday (April 1), with another packed house, also broadcast live on radio across Spain.