The performance of a cantata was an important part of the liturgy in Lutheran churches. It was a medium by which to interpret readings from the Scriptures and proclaim the Gospel. In this course we ...

Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt is one of the handful of big names behind what we now think of as the sound of Baroque music. Coinciding with his 80th birthday is this fascinating two-disc ...

Modern biographers of the great classical composers have often been reluctant to concede the sincerity of their subjects’ assertions of religious belief. Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, ...

JS Bach’s cantata for Ascension Day: ‘Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein’ will be on display until 2025 Oxford’s Bodleian Library has announced the acquisition of the original manuscript of JS Bach’s ...

Every week, it seems, someone somewhere makes a new Bach recording. Thank goodness they're all different. Two of the latest are perfect examples; even though both mine the same vein within the grand ...

At the regularly scheduled 9:30 a.m. liturgy on May 17, Saint Andrew's Church, Lambertville will hold a special celebration for the seventh Sunday of Easter, Ascension Sunday. Imbedded in the service ...