In a development that could put Worcester in the center of a world-wide cultural map for a decade or more, Music Worcester will perform all of 18th century German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian ...

The Leipzig Bach Festival honors the composer with a hit parade. Over 7,000 fans from 20 countries cast their votes. But Bach ...

Bach Mass in B minor: a guide to this supremely spiritual and sometimes overwhelming work, and its very best recordings ...

Johann Sebastian Bach mastered a stunning variety of musical forms: works for solo instruments, chamber pieces, vocal music, concerti and music for the orchestra. Yet his overlooked choral music may ...

'More importantly, Bach has in the popular consciousness become a symbol, if not the symbol, of 'pure', logical music, unmitigated by worldly concerns.' The works of the Baroque composer Johann ...

Even today, centuries after he lived, Johann Sebastian Bach remains one of the world's most popular composers. On Spotify, close to seven million people stream his music per month, and his listener ...

In many ways, Johann Sebastian Bach paved the way for the likes of fellow legendary composers Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. The latter even referred to Bach as ...

The famous conductor Hans von Bülow, slightly less famous as a pianist now and nearly forgotten as a composer, remains most present to modern music lovers either as the jilted husband of Cosima von ...

Johann Sebastian Bach has been a central figure in the life of British conductor John Eliot Gardiner since he was a youngster. On his way to bed, he couldn't help glancing up at the famous ...