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Bach Collegium San Diego’s Powerful, Inspiring Bach ‘St. Matthew Passion’
Bach Collegium San Diego crowned the company’s two decades of period music performance with Bach’s ‘St. Matthew Passion’ on March 24 & 25, 2023, in Point Loma and Cardiff.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego Premieres ‘El Mesías’–Handel’s Beloved Oratorio in Spanish
The Bach Collegium San Diego premiered ‘El Mesías’–its Spanish-language adaptation of G. F. Handel’s ‘Messiah’–in San Diego County and Baja California, Mexico, March 18 — 20, 2022.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego Brings Compelling Period “Messiah” to The Conrad in La Jolla
The December 22, 2019, performance by the Bach Collegium San Diego of G. F. Handel’s complete “Messiah” in the Baker-Baum Concert Hall of the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla benefited greatly from the new hall’s splendid acoustics, high ceiling and clean sight lines. Of even greater import, the Bach Collegium’s fresh, insightful approach to 18th-century period performance practice gave it uncanny communicative powers to a 21st-century audience.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego’s Stirring J.S. Bach ‘Christmas Oratorio’
Ruben Valenzuela’s Bach Collegium San Diego gave an electric performance of J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio Friday (December 14) in the capacious sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church of San Diego. Sung in German by a strong 19 member chorus, accompanied by a fleet 25-piece period instrument ensemble, and guided by Artistic Director Valenzuela’s acute sense of Baroque period performance practice, this concert brought the audience amazingly close to Bach’s musical world.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego Celebrates the Musical Virtues of Henry Purcell
Ruben Valenzuela and his Bach Collegium San Diego presented a wide-ranging concert devoted exclusively to the music of Henry Purcell on Friday, May 11, 2018, at All Souls’ Episcopal Church in Point Loma.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego’s Milestone ‘Messiah’
Under the direction of Ruben Valenzuela, San Diego’s Bach Collegium performed a complete version of G. F. Handel’s oratorio “Messiah” at the First Presbyterian Church of San Diego on Tuesday, December 19, 2017 . . .
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