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 ...

“For the glory of God alone.” With these words, Bach signed off each of his two hundred sacred cantatas. But with so many to choose from, it’s hard to know where to begin. Our guide lifts the lid on a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The transience of life, suffering and death: these are the bleak thoughts that prevail throughout the four cantatas chosen for the sixth ...

Johann Sebastian Bach had an explosively productive year when he started working as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. This DW Festival Concert episode from the Bach Festival presents some of his creative, ...