Lots of hallelujahs, but big Bach still looms large
Bach has always seemed to drift in and out of popularity
Many of Handel’s hallelujahs will be ringing out across the land during Easter Week. The ecstatic tone of Messiah’s famous chorus lends itself to the modern celebratory nature of Eastertime, but that was not always the case and it was Johann Sebastian Bach – and not Handel – who was the composer of choice around the middle of the last century.
From there on, there would have been few to argue that Bach ...
