Seattle Bach Festival is offering a different way into the Christmas story that trades the grand sweep of Handel's "Messiah" ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

Portland’s own Bach Cantata Choir will sing in Leipzig, Germany, as part of the 2024 Leipzig Bach Festival, the preeminent festival centered on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The festival ...

The Chattanooga Bach Choir 2018-19 Barnett & Company Cantata Series concludes Sunday at 5 p.m., with music celebrating the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25). The concert will be held at Christ ...

The Leipzig Bach Festival is an annual event. But it has surely never been quite like this before. The festival’s artistic director, Michael Maul, and the president and director, respectively, of the ...

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is pure perfection: a vast yet intricate tapestry of heavenly beauty and human emotion. This CD presents Bach’s two sacred cantatas for solo bass, performed by ...

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 ...

In 1993, when Robert von Bahr received a letter at his Stockholm office proposing that his company, BIS Records, undertake a complete cycle of all 200 Bach cantatas with someone named Masaaki Suzuki ...

Among Bach’s 200-plus cantatas there are a handful that focus on a single voice. In these two best-known of his solo cantatas — Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen and Ich habe genug — Matthias Goerne ...