This is the premiere recording of sacred cantatas by JL Bach: works preserved due to his distant cousin, JS Bach, copying them for performance. Conductor Johanna Soller brings them to sensitive and vi ...

The event was initiated and is perennially overseen by Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra (JBO) founder, harpsichord player, and conductor Prof. David Shemer, who also serves as musical director. In the ...

It was a good year for Messiahs and an equally good one for the “classically-related" repertoire. Piffaro: The Renaissance Band Drive the Cold Winter Away: A Renaissance Christmas Celebration Self ...

The original composition is dominated by flute, an instrument that has only been recognized as metal once when Jethro Tull took home the Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 1989. Scallon rocks his ...

In 2006, Martin Jarvis, a Welsh-born musician who teaches at Charles Darwin University, in Australia, aired a startling theory about Johann Sebastian Bach, the undisputed arch-magus of the Western ...

During his 27 years in Leipzig, Germany, Johann Sebastian Bach had a hectic job writing original music for the city’s principal churches and civic functions, as well as teaching singing at the St.

Johann Sebastian Bach’s music may be timeless, but a gander by Universal Music Group labels Deutsche Grammaphon and Decca suggests that even the compositions of the man generally considered to be the ...

The Guitar Foundation of America recently hosted dozens of classical guitarists for six days of music at Metropolitan State University of Denver. CPR Classical was lucky enough to host three of the ...

Ask any self-respecting classical music aficionado who the greatest composer of all time is, and they’ll usually whittle down a shortlist of three key names: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van ...