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 ...
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.
As the celebrity University Challenge teams were much slower to identify this Magnificat as Bach’s than was my six-year-old grandson, a new recording may be a good place to start the year. Vox Luminis ...
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 ...
Carl Philipp Emanuel, born 300 years ago, was the second son of JS Bach and a fascinating composer who moved from the baroque towards later 18th-century styles. The transformation is well captured ...
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, ...
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 ...
Samira Ahmed talks to Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper about his new film The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne. Plus a reconstruction of JS Bach's first Christmas in Leipzig. Show more Samira ...
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