There’s a reason classical music devotees return to Bethlehem’s Bach Festival year after year. It’s to discover new works. New in this context means a work performed for the first time at the festival ...

Choosing the "best" of Johann Sebastian Bach's nearly 200 sacred cantatas is a daunting task, as each one seems perfect. But three leading Bach experts took up the challenge. Peter Wollny, director of ...

At 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 17, Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church will present J.S. Bach's Cantata #4, Christ lag in Todesbanden; Christ lay in Death's strong bonds. Soloists for Cantata #4, which ...

As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...

On Saturday, St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church will resonate with the sacred music of Johann Sebastian Bach and the voices of the Yale Voxtet — an ensemble of eight singers in the early music voice ...

Three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach came to Leipzig as cantor. This was celebrated extensively at the Bachfest. His works continue to shape the music world today. When Johann Sebastian Bach ...