Bach's concertos - they're essential listening. The Brandenburg Concertos, the keyboard concertos… they're all great, but what is it about the Violin Concerto in A minor that keeps people coming back ...

Nothing Bach wrote is famous as Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, but he churned out so many masterpieces that there’s barely time to put them on your bucket list. In this showcase of the mid 18th century you ...

Janine Jansen and friends share their passion for Bach's chamber music. Album of the Weekend, 2-3 November 2013. For her 'Bach Project', Janine Jansen is touring Europe joined by twelve of her closest ...

The multi-Gramophone Award winner discusses her new recording of Bach concertos, sinfonias and trio sonatas with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin You can listen to the Podcast above. To hear other ...

Often said to be the instrument closest to the human voice, the musical properties and characteristics of the violin have attracted composers through the centuries. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, ...

Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (NAHD-yah sah-LAIR-noh SOH-nen-berg) paid a visit to Kleinhans (KLINE hanz) Music Hall in Buffalo a couple of seasons back. She played both of J.S. Bach's violin ...

Bach frequently recycled his own music, and Ottavio Dantone believes the arrangements are so satisfactory because his works "are so structurally and conceptually perfect that they transcend the ...

One of the pleasures of the summer was the late nights spent at the BBC Proms in the company of Alina Ibragimova playing Bach. On this disc she plays not solo Bach (she has already recorded much of ...

Janine Jansen’ s Bach concertos collection, for which the Dutch violist is joined by friends and family (father Jan on harpsichord and brother Maarten on cello), is more idiosyncratic than you might ...

The Australian Chamber Orchestra and Richard Tognetti present an unmissable album of Bach concertos. Bach is food for the soul, and this collection of four concertos explores the warmth, intimacy and ...