Bach’s Magnificat is the most concise of his major choral works but contains some of the composer’s most profound religious expression, from the intimate to the fervent.Conducting from a seated ...

In an interview with then music director of the Washington National Opera Heinz Fricke back in 2007, I asked him as a seasonal aside, whether there was any particular music for Easter that he liked.

Acclaimed early music ensemble TENET Vocal Artists, led by Artistic Director Jolle Greenleaf, next presents in its 2022-23 season lineup Bach's spectacular Magnificat and Easter Oratorio. Held at ...

The Cleveland Orchestra Bernard Labadie, conductor Joélle Harvey, soprano Adèle Charvet, mezzo soprano Andrew Haji, tenor Gordon Bintner, bass-baritone The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Bright trumpet ...

Bach’s surviving Easter cantatas, which date from 1707 to the late 1720s, provide the perfect point of entry for anyone unfamiliar with the composer’s works for the church year. Top marks to Challenge ...

A Bach concert in Dresden. Photo: DPA Given the fact that modern German culture often seems like a poor shadow of Anglophone culture, finding music and theatre that grips you can be a struggle. But ...

The Houston Symphony will celebrate the season with exquisite music of Bach, including the Concerto for Oboe and Violin with Principal Oboe Jonathan Fischer and Concertmaster Yoonshin Song, two of ...

At the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Peter Whelan – much-garlanded director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra – led the Orchestra (and Choir) of the Age of Enlightenment (along with a quartet of accomplished ...

“Music to combat grief” is John Eliot Gardiner’s apt description of Bach’s Actus Tragicus, coupled on this CD with a timely performance of the Easter Oratorio. Gardiner’s long, in-depth experience of ...

Lovers of Baroque sacred music will find it tough to choose between two new CD releases. Both are well-nigh-flawless accounts of familiar sacred choral works by Bach and Vivaldi and both are bursting ...

Johann Sebastian Bach might have been forgotten were it not for one of his most dedicated fans: the grandmother of Felix Mendelssohn Johann Sebastian Bach It’s amazing to think that had it not been ...