“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Bach scholar Michael Marissen, who has written or edited four books (and countless articles) on various aspects of Bach, says it’s a good thing he got to know all 200 or so of Bach’s cantatas while in ...