J. S. Bach composed this famous collection of six concertos (BWV 1046-51) between 1708-1721, although they weren't known as the 'Brandenburg' Concertos until 150 years later. For a gateway into the ...

The title really ought to come in quotation marks, for of the five works that Alexei Ogrintchouk plays on his first solo recording for BIS, only one, the Adagio from the Sinfonia of the Easter ...

Within any classical musical genre, there are two sorts of piece. There are the thousands of routine works which have vanished completely. And there are the few dozens which soar above routine, and ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Although Lisa Batiashvili is pictured on the cover (and in numerous glamorous photos through the booklet) this Bach ...

Jean Rondeau's new album, 'Dynastie', is an Editor's Choice in the March 2017 issue of Gramophone. It features keyboard concertos by CPE, JC and JS Bach, as well as an arrangement of a sonata by WF ...

In three separate Masterworks evenings beginning in November, Utah Symphony Music Director Thierry Fischer will lead the Utah Symphony through a complete cycle devoted to J.S. Bach's Brandenburg ...

Whenever Handel and Haydn Society concertmaster Aisslinn Nosky leads the ensemble through a full performance of J.S. Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos, audience members often comment something to the ...

J.S. Bach: Concertos for Two Harpsichords, BWV 1060-62. Bob van Asperen, Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichords; Melante Amsterdam, Bob van Asperen, conductor (Virgin Veritas). Leonhardt’s analog ...

The fifth and final concert in La Follia's all-Bach concert season features the incomparable Anton Nel performing on harpsichord. Featured works with Nel are the "Triple Concerto in A minor "and "the ...

Modern biographers of the great classical composers have often been reluctant to concede the sincerity of their subjects’ assertions of religious belief. Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, ...

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 ...