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 ...

Bookspan writes, “The celebrated Chaconne from the D Minor Partita represents one of the highest peaks of Bach’s creation in this medium.” The medium to which he refers is unaccompanied violin, ...

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.

The Bach Collegium Japan have visited the UK so rarely, it might be possible to imagine that they have continued to plough a lonely furrow in another time zone. Far from it. For me at least, the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Completing 19 years of presenting early music concerts to the Calgary public, Early Music Voices’ season-ending concert featured J.S. Bach’s Magnificat. On hand for the event at Christ Church in Elbow ...

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The pairing of Bach’s E flat Magnificat and Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum resonates surprisingly on several levels, although these giants of north German music never met. Both are occasional festive works ...

Milwaukee was destined to have a Bach Fest. Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra music director Ken-David Masur is a proud ambassador for composers from Leipzig, his German hometown — where Johann Sebastian ...

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