Grace Church -- a compact, austerely beautiful mid-19th-century chapel that is in lower Georgetown but looks as though it might have come straight out of Ingmar Bergman's Sweden -- has been presenting ...

Three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach came to Leipzig as cantor. This was celebrated extensively at the Bachfest. His works continue to shape the music world today. When Johann Sebastian Bach ...

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 ...

In this episode of DW Festival Concert, we'll hear music from Leipzig's celebration of 300 years of Johann Sebastian Bach. It was 300 years ago, in 1723, that Johann Sebastian Bach took up the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Concert five, the mid-point in Philharmonia's Immortal Bach series, charted territories to which the Christian soul might aspire and ...

The two newly attributed pieces lay overlooked in manuscript form, until researcher Peter Wollny was able to firmly identify ...

The 2020 Yale Cantata Project performed two Bach cantatas — “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme” and “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben” — at Dwight Chapel on Saturday. In the mid-1800s, the chapel was ...

Johann Sebastian Bach has been a central figure in the life of British conductor John Eliot Gardiner since he was a youngster. On his way to bed, he couldn't help glancing up at the famous ...

Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven. By John Eliot Gardiner. Knopf; 629 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £30. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk WHEN John Eliot Gardiner grew up on his family’s farm in Dorset, ...