Nothing Bach wrote is famous as Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, but he churned out so many masterpieces that there’s barely time to put them on your bucket list. In this showcase of the mid 18th century you ...

Janine Jansen and friends share their passion for Bach's chamber music. Album of the Weekend, 2-3 November 2013. For her 'Bach Project', Janine Jansen is touring Europe joined by twelve of her closest ...

The multi-Gramophone Award winner discusses her new recording of Bach concertos, sinfonias and trio sonatas with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin You can listen to the Podcast above. To hear other ...

We rank the all-time great, most stirring violin concertos… from Bruch and Beethoven, to Mozart and Marsalis, here are the very best. The violin is one of the most expressive instruments in the ...

Here are a selection of works by Bach that are essential listening; and once bitten the Bach Bug will take you on a journey of almost limitless reward If music has a holy trinity the three names would ...

The Boulder Bach Festival’s expansion to a more year-round event outside the regular festival week has, according to music director Rick Erickson, been a tremendous success. “We love being a more ...

One of the pleasures of the summer was the late nights spent at the BBC Proms in the company of Alina Ibragimova playing Bach. On this disc she plays not solo Bach (she has already recorded much of ...

Bach frequently recycled his own music, and Ottavio Dantone believes the arrangements are so satisfactory because his works "are so structurally and conceptually perfect that they transcend the ...

Janine Jansen’ s Bach concertos collection, for which the Dutch violist is joined by friends and family (father Jan on harpsichord and brother Maarten on cello), is more idiosyncratic than you might ...

For his latest release on Sony Classical, violinist Leonidas Kavakos goes back to Bach - varied and vivid orchestral works from the first half of the 18th century in which the composer combined the ...