Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt is one of the handful of big names behind what we now think of as the sound of Baroque music. Coinciding with his 80th birthday is this fascinating two-disc ...

All Performances of Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 29, 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir', BWV 29 (arr. Henry Wood) at BBC Music ...

A pair of chaconnes that were first discovered in the 1990s have now been linked to the Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach.

After discovering the two pieces in the 1990s, researchers have finally concluded that they were created by the famous German ...

J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 870-893 / Prelude & Fugue in D Major, BWV 874: I. Prelude 1. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, BWV 8 1. Sonata in G Minor, BWV 152: I. Adagio 2.

Bach is back, bigger than ever and just in time for the holiday buying season in this 275th year since his death. The ...

“Ich habe genug,” Bach’s Cantata No. 82, is commonly rendered in English as “I am content.” At the cantata’s center is a lullaby of consoling sweetness, generosity of spirit and somnolent blessedness, ...

A musicologist's hunch three decades ago has led to the rediscovery of two previously unknown works by legendary composer ...

It’s a rare singer whose artistry is so distinctive that, without any sense of willfulness or distortion, the music seems to bend in her image. Of the many fine singers who have taken on Bach’s solo ...