Warum betrübst du dich Carolyn Sampson, Soprano Mahan Esfahani, Clavichord Cantata No. 82, 'Ich habe genug', Movements: Recit: Ich habe genug! (B) Carolyn Sampson, Soprano Mahan Esfahani, Clavichord ...

For his earlier recording of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach (8/23), Mahan Esfahani used both a clavichord and a harpsichord, a sensible choice given the domestic origins of the music. In his ...

If fame is in the name, then Anna Magdalena Bach is history’s most recognizable, indeed celebrated, musical woman. It wasn’t always so. During the grim poverty of her last decade she had already been ...

News that the United States ranks 30th among nations in infant mortality rates, and is the second worst among developed countries makes me reflect on the role music has long played in preparing for ...

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is a classical superstar. But little was known about the women of his musical family until now. Anna Magdalena Wilcke (1701-1760) was a well-known soprano who in 1721 ...

A look at the life of Johann Sebastian Bach's second wife, Anna Magdalena Wilcke. She married Bach when she was 20 and the following year Bach compiled his celebrated Anna Magdalena Notebook for her.

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is a classical superstar. But little was known about the women of his musical family until now. A rare portrait of Anna Magdalena Bach around 1710. Bach's wife earned ...