Vocal soloists—male soloists in particular—provided most of the best moments when the Dallas Symphony presented Handel’s Messiah Thursday night at Meyerson Symphony Center, in the first of four ...

Helmuth Rilling, the eminent Bach specialist, was once a regular presence on the podium of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Many of us considered his return to conduct the orchestra and the Los ...

Musical Passions--settings of the Gospel accounts of the betrayal and crucifixion of Christ--seem unlikely vehicles for popular success in a secular, post-modern age. After all, this venerable genre, ...

Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah" was last performed by the Seattle Symphony in February 1989, conducted by the late, great choral conductor Robert Shaw. This week's performances are conducted by ...

J.S. Bach’s great B-minor Mass summarizes the composer’s staggering achievements in sacred music, much as his Art of Fugue and Well-Tempered Clavier catalog his prowess in instrumental genres. Bach ...

Helmuth Rilling conducts Spain's Royal Philharmonia of Galicia in the third movement from Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 1. (Hanssler CD 98.312) ...

Robin Helgen has sung with the Minnesota Opera and the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus under conductor Helmuth Rilling. She maintains a voice studio in her home and teaches voice at area high schools.