Bursting with grandeur and elegance, the festival begins with Bach’s electrifying Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, followed by the richly moving Concerto No. 6. Caroline Shaw’s Bach-inspired Concerto for ...

Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are masterpieces of orchestral colour, and these landmark recordings by the Orchestra of the Antipodes on period instruments bring out all the warmth and beauty of the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. After their superlative recording of Bach’s Orchestral Suites two years ago, it was only a matter of time before the ...

Modern instruments at early music speeds and today’s bright pitch characterise this new own-label account of Bach’s orchestral masterpiece by one of America’s leading chamber ensembles. No.1 is a ...

From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) presented a masterful performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete “Brandenburg Concertos” at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and New England ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There are so many recordings of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos that a unique selling point is helpful for any new ...

If I hadn't been on duty, I would have left after the first half of Thursday night's Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert. Under guest conductor Richard Egarr — a British baroque-music specialist, mind ...

This set of the six Brandenburg Concertos comes with John Eliot Gardiner’s name attached, but he conducts just two of them, the more complex Nos 1 and 2. In the rest he lets his band get on with it ...