No one needs to be told why “The Messiah” or “The Nutcracker” have become Christmas perennials. There are, of course, further Christmas-themed works of glory galore. It’s time we dig out Bach’s joyous ...

Yet the look, and sound, of these six pieces “for several instruments”, rather obsequiously dedicated by the job-seeking Bach to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721, can still startle audiences. Last ...

From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) presented a masterful performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete “Brandenburg Concertos” at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and New England ...

Worcester launches a 10-year project to perform all of Bach’s works by 2035, beginning with this year's Bachtoberfest.

To celebrate Monica Huggett’s 25 years as artistic director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the ensemble will launch “Monica’s Dream Season” with Bach’s “Brandenburg Concertos” – all six of them – ...

Apex Concerts and the Performing Arts Series in the School of the Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno present Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos, performed by the renowned ...

I’ve been fascinated with Bach’s Second Brandenburg Concerto since I was at school, mostly because I was a trumpet player, and Bach’s super-high trumpet part was regarded as the Mount Everest of brass ...

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, ...

In these days of uncertainty, music can provide a safe haven, an escape, or even a boost of energy. I've found all of that and more in a new recording of the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the ...