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 ...
In June 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach officially took the position of Kapellmeister and Cantor et Director Musices at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany, a position he would hold for the next 27 ...
Another bull’s-eye hit from John Butt’s Dunedin Consort. This newest liturgical reconstruction is of Bach’s first Christmas Vespers in Leipzig in December 1723, a rich service that included organ ...
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 ...
"National Philharmonic is proud to mark the fifth year of our partnership with The Washington Chorus through One Song: Exultávit!" said NatPhil President and CEO Jim Kelly. "This program highlights ...
As Handel once remarked when congratulated on the success of a “Messiah” performance: “I should be sorry if I only entertained them – I wish to make them better.” The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, in its ...
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 ...
Violinist Leonidas Kavakos’s new sonatas and partitas album stands out from the pack, and the Gaechinger Cantorey excel with CPE Bach The Greek star violinist Leonidas Kavakos made his concert debut ...
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 ...
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.
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