Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn night. As the door opens, an organ pierces through the thick silence ...

Johann Sebastian Bach mastered a stunning variety of musical forms: works for solo instruments, chamber pieces, vocal music, concerti and music for the orchestra. Yet his overlooked choral music may ...

On November 7 and 8, MIOpera joins forces with the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana (BACH) to present George Frideric ...

What do Mendelssohn, Nina Simone and Gremlins II have in common? They have all made use of Bach. Nicholas Kenyon on a composer who turns a different face to each age Choirs and choral societies around ...

Bach wrote liturgical music and choir cantatas built around hymns and Biblical texts. But he also wrote “secular” music and purely instrumental compositions. Some critics try to play those off against ...

Even today, centuries after he lived, Johann Sebastian Bach remains one of the world's most popular composers. On Spotify, close to seven million people stream his music per month, and his listener ...

Sometimes when I play a bit of Bach, I comment to my companions, “Bach is the best,” and no one ever, ever contradicts me. J. S. Bach achieved the highest degree of vertical/horizontal synthesis in ...

The world rsquo;s richest man, Elon Musk, has sparked a fresh conversation online after declaring German composer Johann ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas not only inspire choirs worldwide, but also those who can't actually hear his music, as seen at the Leipzig Bach Festival. Eighty-eight people move on a large stage to ...

THE COMPLETE BACH, Music Worcester’s 11-year project to present live performances of all known works by J. S. Bach will continue on January 24 as The Worcester Chorus and The Winchendon Players ...

The image of Johann Sebastian Bach that has come down to us through the centuries — that of a self-taught, flawless man who, in pious isolation, composed some of the world's greatest musical ...