In 1993, when Robert von Bahr received a letter at his Stockholm office proposing that his company, BIS Records, undertake a complete cycle of all 200 Bach cantatas with someone named Masaaki Suzuki ...

“For the glory of God alone.” With these words, Bach signed off each of his two hundred sacred cantatas. But with so many to choose from, it’s hard to know where to begin. Our guide lifts the lid on a ...

Three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach came to Leipzig as cantor. This was celebrated extensively at the Bachfest. His works continue to shape the music world today. When Johann Sebastian Bach ...

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, ...

On Saturday, St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church will resonate with the sacred music of Johann Sebastian Bach and the voices of the Yale Voxtet — an ensemble of eight singers in the early music voice ...

Portland’s own Bach Cantata Choir will sing in Leipzig, Germany, as part of the 2024 Leipzig Bach Festival, the preeminent festival centered on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The festival ...

The renowned Bach conductor's complete recordings of Bach's cantatas is now available for the first time in a limited edition 56 CD box set. Recorded as part of the Bach Cantata Pilgirmage in 2000, ...

As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...

When I last reviewed a CD of the ongoing survey of Bach’s cantatas by St. Gallen’s Bach Foundation or Bachstiftung, volume 13 in that series was the hook to talk about the merits of the project in ...

What did Bach sound like? The answer, of course, is that we can never know. It has been 333 years since the birth of Johann Sebastian, and we realise that we cannot recapture the sound of most ...

Bach Collegium Japan's deservedly acclaimed project to record all of Bach's cantatas has reached volume 51, which turns out to be an especially vibrant and generously filled collection of sacred ...