Conductor Nicholas McGegan has been programming evenings of Baroque music for years at the Aspen Music Festival, usually with an idea toward juxtaposing various composers from the era. This year’s ...

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 ...

After an all-Johann Sebastian Bach concert given by the Montpelier music series Capital City Concerts last year, director and flutist Karen Kevra and her guest musicians, including soprano Hyunah Yu, ...

Joining the Society as soloists are Laquita Mitchell, soprano, Lucia Bradford, mezzo-soprano, Eric Finbarr Carey, tenor, and Adam Lau, bass, together with the Orchestra of the Society, all led by ...

The Bach Collegium Japan have visited the UK so rarely, it might be possible to imagine that they have continued to plough a lonely furrow in another time zone. Far from it. For me at least, the ...

Bookspan writes, “The celebrated Chaconne from the D Minor Partita represents one of the highest peaks of Bach’s creation in this medium.” The medium to which he refers is unaccompanied violin, ...

Lotti’s Missa Sapientiae featured in Bach’s library, offering him a model of Venetian sacred music for his Mass in B minor. The tonal richness and emotional contrasts of the Lotti are brought to life ...

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Completing 19 years of presenting early music concerts to the Calgary public, Early Music Voices’ season-ending concert featured J.S. Bach’s Magnificat. On hand for the event at Christ Church in Elbow ...

Written in 1723, Bach's exciting Baroque masterpiece was the first piece he offered to the people of Leipzig. In 1723, J. S. Bach was a young composer and music teacher with a large family to support.

For his first Christmas in Leipzig, in 1723, Bach delivered an extraordinary feast of music. This is the first recording that John Eliot Gardiner has made of the Magnificat in its original version in ...

As Handel once remarked when congratulated on the success of a “Messiah” performance: “I should be sorry if I only entertained them – I wish to make them better.” The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, in its ...