It’s not all about the Brandenburg Concertos – but it’s a good place to start! Discover the magic behind Bach’s fantastic Baroque orchestral music. Of Bach’s mammoth output of more than 1100 ...

Bach: Harpsichord Concertos Nos. 1-7; Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord; Brandenburg Concerto No. 5; Italian Concerto. Murray Perahia, piano and conducting the Academy of St.

Like many another composer, Bach was an avid recycler. Two of the harpsichord concertos here – the ones in F, BWV1057, and G minor, BWV1058 – are better known in their original guises, as the Fourth ...

If the Kilkenny Arts Festival has whetted rather than sated your appetite for Bach, here’s Andreas Staier swinging into view with new versions of seven harpsichord concertos on two mid-price CDs. The ...

Six incredible works of art, and six reasons they changed everything. In 1721, Johann Sebastian Bach carefully packaged together six of his finest concertos and sent them to a Christian Ludwig, ...

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 ...

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 ...