One of Bach’s best-known choral works, the turbulent but ultimately hopeful St John Passion invites listeners to step into the dramatic story it relates. The Bach expert and Harvard professor Christoph Wolff writes: “Bach experimented with the St John Passion as he did with no other large-scale composition. The work accompanied Bach right from his first year as Kantor of St Thomas’s to the penultimate year of his life and thus, for that reason alone, how close it must have been to his heart.”

Three centuries after its first performance, we are very much looking forward to this very special evening.