Easter Music From Clare

The last time we checked in on this series from the very fine Clare College Choir, it was a review of the somewhat bizarrely programmed

J.S. Bach: Easter Oratorio/Bernius

There are relatively few recordings of Bach’s Easter Oratorio, and perhaps there’s a “snob factor” involved, being that for this exuberant sacred composition Bach re-used

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