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Bach’s divine gift brought to life

The Great Passion by James Runcie Bloomsbury, £16.99, 272 pages This sublime novel about the domestic and spiritual genesis behind Johann Sebastian Bach’s writing of his St Matthew Passion – first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday, 1727 – is every bit as brilliantly dramatic as Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play Amadeus. I couldn’t put it

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