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On 16 December 2000, a young @dra1 stepped out on to the stage of St Martin-in-the-Fields making what would be the first of many performances of Johann Sebastian Bach’s great Mass in B minor. On 16 November last year, just under 25 years later, a slightly greyer @dra27 stepped out on the stage of King’s Hall at Newcastle University for what, for now at least2, would be his last performance of this…