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 ...
Maestro Harold Rosenbaum and The New York Virtuoso Singers will present the fourth concert of their 2022-23 New York City season on Saturday, February 25 @ 7:30 PM at Merkin Hall at The Kaufman Music ...
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 ...
Cantata No. 86, 'Warlich, warlich, ich sage euch' English Baroque Soloists Monteverdi Choir John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Cantata No. 87, 'Bisher habt ihr nichts ...
Boston's Handel and Haydn Society will make its Carnegie Hall debut with a program of Bach and Telemann cantatas and ...
Planning your audio adventure should be easy enough: resolve to take in a cantata on every Sunday and other holy day throughout the church year. There are plenty of online guides to tell you what Bach ...
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, ...
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, ...
Philippe Herreweghe’s thoughtful series of Bach cantatas – which now extends over 20 years – is conceived as a celebration of Bach’s compositional response to a particular festival or theme. Neither ...
When interviewing musicians, I'm constantly struck by how many of them tell me that J.S. Bach's music is a key touchstone of their musical identity. Academically, Bach might be the foundation for all ...