Jonathan Freeman-Attwood assesses Masaaki Suzuki’s cycle of Bach’s vocal works Unlike others who have made complete recordings of Bach choral music, Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan didn’t ease ...
Making a thrilling London debut, the Oxford Bach Soloists continue their quest to perform all of the composer’s vocal works over 12 years. Elsewhere, a revelatory reading of Arvo Pärt An exciting ...
Bach Akademie Australia opens its stellar 2026 program with J.S. Bach’s Complete Vocal Motets, a colossal, five-city tour in collaboration with Australia’s premier vocal ensemble, The Song Company and ...
Modern performances of Johann Sebastian Bach’s magnificent vocal works, his passions and oratorios, take place in almost sterile environments: plain churches, functional concert halls with audiences ...
With major Bach vocal works now appearing on Hyperion, notably under Stephen Layton, the absence of an à la mode Mass in B minor had left an obvious gap for one of our most ‘completist’ of major ...
HOLLAND — The Holland Bach Society, a musical project led by Scott Vanden Berg, is seeking to bring the sacred compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach to more audiences in the Holland area. Bach, widely ...
In 1992, Peter Wollny uncovered a pair of chaconnes, a series of variations played over a short, repeated bass line, in the Royal Library of Belgium that seemed indicative of Bach’s early compositions ...