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 ...

Johann Sebastian Bach had an explosively productive year when he started working as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. This DW Festival Concert episode from the Bach Festival presents some of his creative, ...

Johann Sebastian Bach, in his position as composer and church organist, barely had time to enjoy the fruits of his written work in performance from one week to the next. Such was the nature of his ...

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 4250 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington, Virginia, will hold its Lenten concert “A Well-Tempered Afternoon” on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. The approximately hour-long concert ...

If one were to compile a list of the seven musical wonders of the world, then Bach's Cantatas might head it. Just over 200 surviving works range from scores for solo voice with varying accompaniments ...

Three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach came to Leipzig as cantor. This was celebrated extensively at the Bachfest. His works continue to shape the music world today. When Johann Sebastian Bach ...

Artistic genius thrives on outrageous challenges. Soon after Johann Sebastian Bach became Kapellmeister at Leipzig in 1723, he set himself the task of providing a newly composed work—for instrumental ...

Cantata No. 76, '(Die) Himmel erzählen die Ehre Eric Milnes, Conductor Montreal Baroque Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Cantata No. 79, 'Gott, der Herr, ist Sonn und Schi Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Modern biographers of the great classical composers have often been reluctant to concede the sincerity of their subjects’ assertions of religious belief. Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, ...

Cantata No. 170, 'Vergnügte Ruh', beliebte Seele Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Philippe Jaroussky, Countertenor Petra Müllejans, Director, Violin Die stille Nacht (Der am ...

A conductor explains how an ordinary man produced such miraculous music WHEN John Eliot Gardiner grew up on his family's farm in Dorset, he met Johann Sebastian Bach on the stairs every day. By some ...

Fueled by his Lutheran faith, the composer devoted his life to creating music for refreshment, proclamation, and praise. In the 16th century, a baker named Veit Bach fled Hungary because of his ...