No composer has more universal appeal than Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The plethora of concerts, festivals, recordings and publications that came in the wake of the Bach Anniversary Year of ...

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 ...

Early Music Vancouver kicks off its inaugural Vancouver Bach Festival this weekend (Aug. 2-12 at the Christ Church Cathedral), bringing a veritable "Best of Bach" collection with it. From chamber ...

He was the first to record all of J.S. Bach’s nearly 200 sacred cantatas, a project that stood out not only for its range but ...

The Social 50 is powered by data tracked by music analytics company Next Big Sound and ranks the most popular artists on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia and Tumblr. The chart’s methodology ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, ...

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 ...

Leading early music expert Winsome Evans presents the final chapter in her ground-breaking project to transcribe and record Bach’s solo instrumental works for the harpsichord, with the Six Cello ...

It was a good year for Messiahs and an equally good one for the “classically-related" repertoire. Piffaro: The Renaissance Band Drive the Cold Winter Away: A Renaissance Christmas Celebration Self ...

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 ...