After an all-Johann Sebastian Bach concert given by the Montpelier music series Capital City Concerts last year, director and flutist Karen Kevra and her guest musicians, including soprano Hyunah Yu, ...

Lotti’s Missa Sapientiae featured in Bach’s library, offering him a model of Venetian sacred music for his Mass in B minor. The tonal richness and emotional contrasts of the Lotti are brought to life ...

Bach’s Magnificat is the most concise of his major choral works but contains some of the composer’s most profound religious expression, from the intimate to the fervent.Conducting from a seated ...

In June 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach officially took the position of Kapellmeister and Cantor et Director Musices at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany, a position he would hold for the next 27 ...

As Handel once remarked when congratulated on the success of a “Messiah” performance: “I should be sorry if I only entertained them – I wish to make them better.” The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, in its ...

Bookspan writes, “The celebrated Chaconne from the D Minor Partita represents one of the highest peaks of Bach’s creation in this medium.” The medium to which he refers is unaccompanied violin, ...

Violinist Leonidas Kavakos’s new sonatas and partitas album stands out from the pack, and the Gaechinger Cantorey excel with CPE Bach The Greek star violinist Leonidas Kavakos made his concert debut ...

For his first Christmas in Leipzig, in 1723, Bach delivered an extraordinary feast of music. This is the first recording that John Eliot Gardiner has made of the Magnificat in its original version in ...

Written in 1723, Bach's exciting Baroque masterpiece was the first piece he offered to the people of Leipzig. In 1723, J. S. Bach was a young composer and music teacher with a large family to support.