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 ...

Personal sins and their forgiveness are central to the cantatas performed live as part of the Monteverdi Choir’s epic Bach pilgrimage in Potsdam. The message registers with heartbreaking force in bass ...

“Ich habe genug,” Bach’s Cantata No. 82, is commonly rendered in English as “I am content.” At the cantata’s center is a lullaby of consoling sweetness, generosity of spirit and somnolent blessedness, ...

Part of John Eliot Gardiner’s mammoth Bach Cantatas project with his English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir. This set of cantatas, released this week, was recorded live at the church of St.

LONDON — Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s self-produced recording of Bach cantatas won record of the year honors Thursday at the annual Gramophone Awards. The recording, on Gardiner’s Soli Deo Gloria label, ...

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 ...

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner Soli Dei Gloria SDG 162(2 CDs) **** The survey of Bach's cantatas by the Orchestra of St Cecilia's Dublin has taken 10 years. John Eliot ...

The 2020 Yale Cantata Project performed two Bach cantatas — “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” and “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben” — at Dwight Chapel on Saturday. In the mid-1800s, the chapel was ...

On Site Opera, New York's pioneering opera company rooted in site-specific opera experiences, is thrilled to announce its upcoming production of The Immersive Coffee Cantata Experience—a reimagining ...

Visiting English musician Peter Lea-Cox will be guest conductor and organist in Bach's Cantata No. 79, "Gott, der Herr, ist Sonn und Schild" (God the Lord is Sun and Shield) at Morning Prayer at 10 ...