As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...
Today, we celebrate J.S. Bach's 333rd birthday. Here is the most divine version of his 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust' you're likely to hear. The visual wizards at Fly On The Wall have been ...
Oct 29, 2017 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Add to Calendar 29-10-2017 10:30 29-10-2017 12:00 America/Toronto Bach Cantata Come celebrate the past with us at Robertson-Wesley United Church as we share an ...
The Leipzig Bach Festival is an annual event. But it has surely never been quite like this before. The festival’s artistic director, Michael Maul, and the president and director, respectively, of the ...
In 1993, when Robert von Bahr received a letter at his Stockholm office proposing that his company, BIS Records, undertake a complete cycle of all 200 Bach cantatas with someone named Masaaki Suzuki ...
Ordinarily, we associate Bach's cantatas with church music—he wrote over 200 of them—but one stands firmly apart. The Coffee Cantata was not meant for St Thomas Lutheran Church in Leipzig, where Bach ...
Friday and Saturday: Organ recital featuring Michael Unger. 7:30 p.m., St. John’s Cathedral, 1350 Washington Street, Denver (Friday). 7:30 p.m., First ...
BBC Radio 3’s Sunday Morning presenters Rob Cowan and James Jolly will be playing a Bach Cantata every Sunday, in the exact order of the Sundays and festivals for which they were composed, over the ...
This cantata contains so much more than 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' - but it's a great way in to this religious piece from 1723. Bach was a busy composer in his post at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, ...
JS Bach’s cantata for Ascension Day: ‘Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein’ will be on display until 2025 Oxford’s Bodleian Library has announced the acquisition of the original manuscript of JS Bach’s ...
Fiona Talkington introduces a performance of Bach's 'wedding cantata' Weichet nur, betrubte Schatten, which may have been sung on his wedding day in 1721. Plus music by Zelenka. Show more Fiona ...