The Music: Bach wrote orchestral movements, or sinfonias, for only 21 of his 200-plus extant church cantatas. Accademia Bizantina perform 19 of them here. Pressure forced Bach to recycle. Look out for ...

Heinz Holliger is to the oboe what James Galway and Jean Pierre Rampal are to the flute, or Dennis Brain to the horn: the standard by which all else is compared. He is also an accomplished composer ...

Simone Dinnerstein, Music Worcester’s first Artist in Residence (2018-2019), returns to Worcester for BACHtoberfest 2025 to perform two headlining concerts this festival weekend. With long-time ...

The Chattanooga Bach Choir & Orchestra, David Long artistic director and conductor, opens its 41st Season with a Bach Cantata concert on Sunday at 5 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, 663 Douglas St.

“For the glory of God alone.” With these words, Bach signed off each of his two hundred sacred cantatas. But with so many to choose from, it’s hard to know where to begin. Our guide lifts the lid on a ...

Choosing the "best" of Johann Sebastian Bach's nearly 200 sacred cantatas is a daunting task, as each one seems perfect. But three leading Bach experts took up the challenge. Peter Wollny, director of ...

When I was a teenager trying to learn how to play piano, one of the hardest things for me was having to learn two different parts and then put them together. At least, that’s how my teenage brain saw ...

The baritone Benjamin Appl made his name singing Schubert Lieder, but his proficiency with works of an earlier era was demonstrated in his 2018 CD Bach, whose mixed programme of vocal and instrumental ...

Instead they're at the service of a 1727 lamentation mourning the death of a princess. Though not linked series-wise, the two Sunday events gave us a serendipitous chance to hear Suzuki senior - one ...

The Grand Rapids Chapter of the American Guild of Organists will present a free, one-hour concert of Bach cantatas at 8 p.m. on Monday, March 16, at the Calvin College Chapel. The chapel is located on ...

That you can find such moments of sheer astonishment in just about every Bach cantata - there is another towards the end of "Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl" ("Let, Princess, just one more glance" ...