J.S. Bach’s motets are to the Bethlehem Bach Festival what MTV Unplugged is to rock’n’roll. You really get to hear the music. The motets sung by the 115-member Bach Choir of Bethlehem were accompanied ...

The New York Virtuoso Singers, led by Conductor and Artistic Director Harold Rosenbaum, will open their 2025–2026 Manhattan concert season with an extraordinary performance of The Six Bach Motets on ...

The name Johann Sebastian Bach towers over classical music like a titan. If there were a Mount Rushmore of classical composers, there’s no way his jowly visage and concerned countenance wouldn’t be a ...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner could easily divide his professional career into "before BCP" and after "BCP." At the close of the 20th Century, Gardiner began the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage with the bulk of the ...

The programming and the choral singing were perfection, Suzuki's handling of the St Giles organ more ambiguous: it's always hard to tell on that instrument what's intended as rubato and what's ...

As New College director of music Edward Higginbottom says in his sleeve notes: “The motets of J.S. Bach are small in number and confined in scope”. Confined in scope because they are all cast in ...

The bulk of Bach’s choral writing lies in his 200-plus oratorios, the very works that the American Bach Soloists were founded to champion decades ago. But some of the master’s most concentrated doses ...

The Seattle Pro Musica has long had a reputation for innovative programming that stretches across a good share of the globe. This weekend the esteemed choral group, led by Karen P. Thomas at St. James ...

The programming and the choral singing were perfection, Suzuki's handling of the St Giles organ more ambiguous: it's always hard to tell on that instrument what's intended as rubato and what's ...