At the Bach Festival, four of the best Bach connoisseurs performed favorite cantatas with their ensembles, including conductors Philippe Herreweghe and Ton Koopman, who are known for historical ...

Bach - Cantata No. 147 This cantata contains so much more than 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' - but it's a great way in to this religious piece from 1723. Bach was a busy composer in his post at the ...

The Music: Here are two cantatas for Christmas Day, two for Epiphany and three for the following Sunday, most of them composed in the 1720s. The emotional range is astonishingly wide, from choral ...

LEIPZIG, Germany — “Bach’s best.” It’s an irresistible concept, but does it mean anything? Such judgments are always fraught when it comes to artistic creations, even more so where the ...

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 ...

Soprano Ava Pine sang Bach cantata selections with the NJSO. When David Lockington took the podium at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank on Saturday, he highlighted the fact that while Johann ...

At the Bach Festival, four of the best Bach connoisseurs performed favorite cantatas with their ensembles, including conductors Philippe Herreweghe and Ton Koopman, who are known for historical ...

— Bach Collegium Japan (@bach_collegiumE) April 15, 2016 Founded in 1990, the group embarked in 1995 upon a project to record all the cantatas that Bach wrote.

If you ever find yourself in Leipzig at a weekend during school term, the Bach motet (and occasionally cantata) performances in the great cantor’s old church, the Thomaskirche, are an absolute must.