J. S. Bach composed this famous collection of six concertos (BWV 1046-51) between 1708-1721, although they weren't known as the 'Brandenburg' Concertos until 150 years later. For a gateway into the ...

The Arizona Bach Festival brings superb musicians from around the world each year to join with local artists in presenting ...

Orchestra New England (ONE) eagerly anticipates the arrival of spring with a “BaroqueFest” concert Saturday, March 7 at ...

Christian Ludwig, an 18th-century nobleman with the title of Margrave of Brandenburg, didn’t deserve the immortality that J.S. Bach’s music has given him. The 35-year-old Bach, at the margrave’s ...

For any Twin Cities lover of the arts, there’s usually a particular December date they make every year. For theatergoers, it might be the Guthrie’s “A Christmas Carol” or — a tradition of more recent ...

J.S. Bach: Concertos for Two Harpsichords, BWV 1060-62. Bob van Asperen, Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichords; Melante Amsterdam, Bob van Asperen, conductor (Virgin Veritas). Leonhardt’s analog ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Although Lisa Batiashvili is pictured on the cover (and in numerous glamorous photos through the booklet) this Bach ...

Within any classical musical genre, there are two sorts of piece. There are the thousands of routine works which have vanished completely. And there are the few dozens which soar above routine, and ...

Recording a CD of some of your favourite music with colleagues and friends you have been playing with for half your life is a momentous occasion. I have played with the English Baroque Soloists since ...

Pianists were shell-shocked when the tidal wave of period performance practices hit. The belief that musicians should play in the style used when individual works were written automatically excluded ...

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, ...

The fifth and final concert in La Follia's all-Bach concert season features the incomparable Anton Nel performing on harpsichord. Featured works with Nel are the "Triple Concerto in A minor "and "the ...