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 ...

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 ...

Some singers deliver Bach's music with impeccable technical proficiency and attention to tone, and some delve into the spiritual aspects of the composer's writing. Andreas Scholl does both, and ...

Larry Sledge, a celebrated Lakeland conductor, has assembled more than 40 exceptional talents for the 50th anniversary Bach Festival of Central Florida.

LEIPZIG, Germany — What will Bachfest Leipzig do for an encore? You had to wonder almost from the start of this year’s installment, last Friday. The festival ...

Fiona Talkington introduces a performance of Bach's 'wedding cantata' Weichet nur, betrubte Schatten, which may have been sung on his wedding day in 1721. Plus music by Zelenka. Show more Fiona ...

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, ...

This cantata contains so much more than 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' - but it's a great way in to this religious piece from 1723. Bach was a busy composer in his post at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, ...

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano, Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, Craig Smith, conductor (Nonesuch) This recording is an outgrowth of Peter Sellars’ staging of J.S. Bach’s Cantatas BWV 82 and 199 ...

Thomas Quasthoff gets top billing, but the star of this disc is Dorothea Röschmann, who sings Bach's music with precision and tenderness. The repertoire includes three of Bach's dialogue cantatas, ...