Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Much like the carols of Christmas, music and Easter are synonymous with one another. From Handel’s “Messiah ...

There, among the instrumentalists of Prague’s Collegium 1704, stood, like a larger kettledrum that wasn’t going to be played, that very font in which Johann Sebastian was baptized on 23 March 1685, ...