What's that old maxim... no politics or religion at the dinner table? It's a concept that would have made Johann Sebastian ...

The Passion story—the events leading up to the death of Jesus, as recounted in the four gospels of the New Testament—is literally the crux of the Christian faith. An early biography of J.S. Bach ...

J. S. Bach’s most famous arias, “Schafe könne sicher weiden” (Sheep may safely graze) projects safety for the governed secured by enlightened leadership. Above a pulsing B-flat drone whose ...

Bach had little systematic training in his youth. It’s said that at nine he almost ruined his eyesight from secretly copying out by moonlight an entire library of instrumental music to which he had ...

Of all the current doyens of modern Bach performance, Masaaki Suzuki knows no limits to his explorations. This is a dazzling recital (from a musician better known as a director-harpsichordist) ...

Music Worcester presents a Bach Birthday Bash weekend in Mechanics Hall March 21-23 to celebrate J.S. Bach's 340th birthday. The weekend will consist of four concerts featuring 14 of Bach's works ...

It is often said that in the drama, beauty and sorrow expressed in JS Bach’s St John Passion we glimpse something of the glory of God. Indeed Bach wrote in his personal Bible ‘Where there is ...

The Elgin Master Chorale, in collaboration with the Bella Voce Sinfonia, will perform J.S. Bach’s “St. John Passion” at 3:30 ...

As the final example in Bach’s life of what Christoph Wolff describes as ‘methodically organised works of exemplary status as paradigms of his musical art’, the Mass in B minor presents performers ...

Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782) was a classical composer, the eleventh son of his more famous father, Johann Sebastian. The youngest of J. S. Bach's sons, Johann Christian was born in Leipzig, ...

For the English organist and composer Percy Whitlock, most of life’s troubles could easily be countered by ‘a long walk and a dose of Bach’. Although the curative properties of the former are easily ...