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Reviews
WASHINGTON POST
Washington Bach Consort has opens 34th season with insightful program
September 26, 2011
Music Director J. Reilly Lewis put together an insightful program, starring a little-known Mass by Domenico Scarlatti that turned out to be one of those where-have-you-been-all-my-life gems...CLICK TO READ MORE
THE EXAMINER
Program of Bach keyboard music unique in scope
March 30, 2011
Sunday's concert provided the rare opportunity to hear the harpsichord featured as a principal instrument, in solo concerti, alongside the great organ chorale preludes and trios of Johann Sebastian Bach.
The Washington Bach Consort presented its artistic director and founder J. Reilly Lewis and associate conductor Scott Dettra in The Art of the Keyboard, a program that highlighted Bach's
music for the harpsichord and organ...CLICK TO READ MORE
WASHINGTON POST
Music review: J. Reilly Lewis and Scott Dettra at National Presbyterian Church
March 29, 2011
On Sunday at the National Presbyterian Church, under the auspices of the Washington Bach Consort, organist/harpsichordists J. Reilly Lewis (the WBC's music director) and Scott Dettra (the Washington National Cathedral's organist) collaborated on a beautifully conceived program that focused on Bach's music for organ (the "Choral Preludes") and for harpsichord, with roots in numerous sources.....CLICK TO READ MORE
THE EXAMINER
A Baroque Christmas with The Washington Bach Consort
December 22, 2010
J. Reilly Lewis conducted the consort in an all a cappella program of delightfully unfamiliar sacred polyphony including music by Byrd, Vulpius, Aleotti, Praetorius, Sweelinck and Morago. In his opening remarks, Lewis expressed the sentiment of the program being full of new discoveries. The Washington Bach Consort did not disappoint in the extraordinary program that followed....CLICK TO READ MORE
DVM CLASSICAL MUSIC BLOG
Strike the Drum and Join the Chorus: Washington Bach Consort, December 19, 2010
December 20, 2010
Most Christmas concerts present ultra-familiar repertoire, seeking to distinguish themselves in presentation. At most, they'll throw in a few lesser-known hymns or songs to pique the audience's interest. For the Washington Bach Consort's Christmas concert, on Sunday at the National Presbyterian Church, founder and music director J. Reilly Lewis did not choose this path....CLICK TO READ MORE
WASHINGTON POST
Washington Bach Consort's 'Origins' at National Presbyterian Church
October 5, 2010
The singers managed the solos and choral sections with resonant clarity, exuberance and fluidity in lengthy, embellished melodic passages. The orchestra and its luminous soloists played expressively and with artful technique...CLICK TO READ MORE
WASHINGTONIAN
Break for Lunch with Bach
April, 2010
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WASHINGTON POST
Christmas in January
January 12, 2010
The Washington Bach Consort celebrated the recent holiday season Sunday with an exciting "International Christmas" program of choral, organ and harp music directed by J. Reilly Lewis at the National Presbyterian Church...
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WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE
Anne Midgette's Pick: An International Christmas
December 20, 2009
Washington's professional Bach departs slightly from it's main mandate for a holiday concert of composers from around the continent...
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WASHINGTON POST
Savor sacred sounds in a sacred space
November 26, 2009
Bach's sacred cantatas are a gift that keeps on giving. He wrote more than 300, of which around 200 survive; chances are, you know no more than a handful of them. ...
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HILL RAG
Washington Bach Consort: Bringing Bach Back to Life
October, 2009
The power of live orchestral and chorale music has become a luxury, or at least a special occasion, for most of us. With its evening events, free cantatas, and student outreach, Washington Bach Consort (WBC), conducted by Dr. J. Reilly Lewis, offers everyone a chance at this moving experience.."
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WASHINGTON POST
Bach Consort and Lewis, Again Transcendent
October 6, 2009
Once again the Washington Bach Consort's performance of Bach's monumental B Minor Mass...was a transcendent one."
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Credo J. Reilly Lewis
September 20, 2009
J. Reilly Lewis serves God with his music, filling Washington's grandest spaces with the chords and choirs imagined by the world's great composers.
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WASHINGTON POST:
Bach's Organ Mass Proving Great, Indeed
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
This piece is the jewel of jewels, at once glorious to hear and architecturally astonishing as it winds its way through an unbelievable mixture of styles and forms....
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WASHINGTON POST:
Washington Bach Consort
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Every year, the Washington Bach Consort's Christmas program proves a refreshing break from the sugary ... fare one finds at most of the city's other choral holiday concerts ...
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WASHINGTON POST:
'St. Matthew Passion:' A Heavenly Sound
Tuesday, May 13, 2008; Page C03
The hard work showed in a performance that captured the work's power while embracing the principles of contemporary early music. ...
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WASHINGTON POST:
Back Is Instrumental to Consort's Success
Thursday, January 24, 2008; Page C07
Timothy Haig and June Huang's violin partnership unfolded with increasing emotional momentum as their interweaving lines echoed each other in a transfixing manner. ...
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WASHINGTON POST:
Washington Bach Consort
Saturday, September 29, 2007; C05
From start to finish, this chamber-size group of choristers, orchestra and soloists -- both vocal and instrumental -- made that leap beyond human abilities, which Bach demands, with compassion, tonal beauty and a sense of inevitable momentum...
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WASHINGTON POST:
Washington Bach Consort Hits a Milestone, Beautifully
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
the consort's chorus soared and danced through Bach's exalted counterpoint and blended lushly for the dramatic a cappella passages in the finale of BWV 63...
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