That said, both Classic FM and the BBC’s Classical Music sister site both consider Bach to be at the top of the classical ...

It’s hard to imagine, but six concertos written in hopes of a job have become Johann Sebastian Bach’s most popular music. The Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051, are a collection of six instrumental ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Calm and graceful, this cello piece by Bach slowly dances through hopefulness, longing and introspection. Calm and graceful, this cello piece ...

Bach’s Mass in B Minor begins with a majestic howl of pain—four adagio bars that combine formal grandeur with writhing interior lines, as if figures in a cathedral frieze of the Last Judgment were ...

Yet the look, and sound, of these six pieces “for several instruments”, rather obsequiously dedicated by the job-seeking Bach to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721, can still startle audiences. Last ...

Vox Luminis, the vocal and instrumental group based in Namur and led by Lionel Meunier, continued their residency at the Wigmore Hall, hot on the heels of a memorable rendition of Bach’s B Mass at the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A pair of organ works that scholars believe were written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were premiered in Leipzig this week and added to the ...

Grace Church -- a compact, austerely beautiful mid-19th-century chapel that is in lower Georgetown but looks as though it might have come straight out of Ingmar Bergman's Sweden -- has been presenting ...

On the theme of “Journeys,” the 2025 Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival is a concentrated week of glorious music and community, with performances held on the campus of Eastern Mennonite University and in ...