Nearly 300 years after his death, Johann Sebastian Bach is still the gold standard in classical music. Clemency Burton-Hill explores why that is.

At an age when many consider slowing down, Peterborough grandmother and part-time classical composer Joanna Borrett is just ...

This week, Donald Macleod looks at a late period in JS Bach's life. This week Donald Macleod looks at the composer's preoccupations during this period, when it seems that he was contemplating past ...

Johann Sebastian Bach was classical music's most sublime creative genius. Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the Baroque Era.

No British composers made the top ten. Bach has been named the best composer (John Stillwell/PA) Johann Sebastian Bach has been named the greatest composer of all time. The German Baroque figure ...

Composer Of The Week: CPE Bach This week we look at CPE Bach's music and reputation in the light of the sensational rediscovery of much of his archive in 1999.

It will be paired the next day with Bach’s St Matthew Passion, the two works touching hands across almost 300 years. Golijov’s route to composing a modern-day Passion was not straightforward.

The Bach Festival Society’s “Elation and Dissent” program this weekend proved both thrilling and chilling. The thrills came in the musicality of works such as Florence Price&#8217… ...