No one needs to be told why “The Messiah” or “The Nutcracker” have become Christmas perennials. There are, of course, further Christmas-themed works of glory galore. It’s time we dig out Bach’s joyous ...

From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) presented a masterful performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete “Brandenburg Concertos” at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and New England ...

The 42nd annual edition of the Chicago area's Bach Week Festival will feature all six of J.S. Bach's beloved "Brandenburg" Concertos, performed in the course of concerts on April 10 at Nichols Concert ...

The period instrument revolution has had one insufficiently acknowledged downside: it scared off “conventional” orchestras from pre-1800 repertoire. This recording comes from the city where Bach was ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are some of the most important Baroque compositions written. They are actually a collection of ideas that Bach composed over a ten year period while he ...

Since he became the Leipzig Gewandhaus's Kapellmeister in 2005, Riccardo Chailly has been at pains to emphasise the music of the two composers most closely associated with the city: Mendelssohn and ...

Virtuosic, dynamic and overflowing with richly imaginative music, Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos still sound as fresh and exciting today as they must have when audiences first heard these works ...

Seventy-two dollars. That was the appraised value of the autograph presentation copy of all six of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos back in 1734 in Germany. Yes, you read that correctly, ...

Bach Akademie Australia will present J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos to Sydney on Friday 14th November 7:30pm, at The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith, and from Saturday 15th to ...

Last week was Bach week up and down the town—or least at the City Center and the Park Avenue Armory. It was also the first week of Fall for Dance, the ultra-popular dance-fest City Center presents ...

Verdict: Superb Baroque band takes Bach from the drawing room to the tavern and beyond. The appearance of yet another Brandenburg Concertos recording is a reminder that these masterpieces might not ...