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, ...

Johann Sebastian Bach, in his position as composer and church organist, barely had time to enjoy the fruits of his written work in performance from one week to the next. Such was the nature of his ...

If one were to compile a list of the seven musical wonders of the world, then Bach's Cantatas might head it. Just over 200 surviving works range from scores for solo voice with varying accompaniments ...

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 ...

Cantata No. 18, 'Gleich wie der Regen und Schnee' (La) Petite Bande Sigiswald Kuijken, Conductor Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Cantata No. 23, 'Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn' Sigiswald Kuijken, ...

Cantata No. 76, '(Die) Himmel erzählen die Ehre Eric Milnes, Conductor Montreal Baroque Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Cantata No. 79, 'Gott, der Herr, ist Sonn und Schi Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach is known to have written many chorale cantatas, polyphonic hymns based on Lutheran texts. Each is fairly simple, featuring a single melody accompanied by three ...

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, ...

Portland’s own Bach Cantata Choir will sing in Leipzig, Germany, as part of the 2024 Leipzig Bach Festival, the preeminent festival centered on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The festival ...

A conductor explains how an ordinary man produced such miraculous music WHEN John Eliot Gardiner grew up on his family's farm in Dorset, he met Johann Sebastian Bach on the stairs every day. By some ...

Fueled by his Lutheran faith, the composer devoted his life to creating music for refreshment, proclamation, and praise. In the 16th century, a baker named Veit Bach fled Hungary because of his ...

Johann Sebastian Bach lost both of his parents when he was nine and watched ten of his children die young. He was, in other words, well acquainted with death, and may have been uncommonly sensitive to ...