Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas not only inspire choirs worldwide, but also those who can't actually hear his music, as seen at the Leipzig Bach Festival. Eighty-eight people move on a large stage to ...

The juxtapositions of music by Bach and Grammy-nominated composer Shawn Okpebholo, in the upcoming concert Sacred Spaces, as ...

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, ...

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 ...

Cantatas 82 and 199 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano; the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music; Craig Smith, conductor; Nonesuch, $16.99 No one in the Bay Area needs to be persuaded or even reminded ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Since taking over the baton at Emmanuel Music ...

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 ...

A jobbing composer under pressure to produce a constant stream of music; an artist and visionary reaching the divine and speaking directly to the heart of the human experience: Bach’s sacred music is ...

The Leipzig Bach Festival is an annual event. But it has surely never been quite like this before. The festival’s artistic director, Michael Maul, and the president and director, respectively, of the ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Aaron Alter seemed to have the kind of career prospects any young composer-pianist would dream of after ...