No one needs to be told why “The Messiah” or “The Nutcracker” have become Christmas perennials. There are, of course, further Christmas-themed works of glory galore. It’s time we dig out Bach’s joyous ...

From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) presented a masterful performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete “Brandenburg Concertos” at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and New England ...

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 ...

In one of music history’s favorite stories (scholars question the details, but why unravel a good yarn?), Johann Sebastian Bach sent six compositions to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721 and hinted ...

If I hadn't been on duty, I would have left after the first half of Thursday night's Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert. Under guest conductor Richard Egarr — a British baroque-music specialist, mind ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Composed in the Italian concerto grosso style, Bach presented these distinct works ...

The irrepressible Nicholas McGegan was on hand this week for a two-night swing through Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos at the Aspen Music Festival that can only be described as buoyant. Whether standing ...

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Jonathan Carney knows he’s going to look a little silly wielding a child-sized violin in the BSO’s performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. “Playing a ...

Complete cycles of Bach’s six wondrous Brandenburg Concertos would be a momentous — and rare — event in the lives of most ensembles and audiences. But this is Los Angeles, and for the Los Angeles ...

Once writing began, it was a matter of building on that inspiration. Often the musical idiom of film and TV music is defined by the show and the story, and certainly influenced by the director and ...