Bach's cantatas include some of the most astonishing, visionary music in existence, and one marvels at the dedication with which he turned out one a week in his early Leipzig years. Philippe ...

Renowned conductor Johanna Soller joins Q guest host Garvia Bailey to talk about reviving 300-year-old Leipzig cantatas by ...

While John Eliot Gardiner's great Bach Pilgrimage in 27 two-disc volumes has been honoured by a special Gramophone award, Masaaki Suzuki's more protracted cycle (on one CD at a time) continues, ...

Cantata No. 35, 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret' Margot Oitzinger, Contralto Peter Kooij, Bass Orfeo Baroque Orchestra Cantata No. 54, 'Widerstehe doch der Sünde' Margot Oitzinger, Contralto Peter ...

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 holiday season, Early Music Vancouver (EMV) is thrilled to present a joyful experience for the whole family - Festive Cantatas: J.S. Bach Magnificat & Cantata BWV 110 ('Let Our Mouth Be Full of ...

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, ...

Boston’s Emmanuel Music, which has been performing cantatas by J.S. Bach every Sunday for the past 50 years, will perform three solo cantatas as part of Music Worcester’s THE COMPLETE BACH (TCB) on ...

Classical music listeners will be drawn to Lauren Belfer’s new novel, “And After the Fire,” but many of them may be in for an unpleasant jolt. Belfer’s novel is a mix of history and fiction. The plot ...

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, ...