“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 ...

Bach scholar Michael Marissen, who has written or edited four books (and countless articles) on various aspects of Bach, says it’s a good thing he got to know all 200 or so of Bach’s cantatas while in ...

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, ...

With no fewer than seven cantatas, a comic opera, music for lute duo and the mighty B Minor Mass, the 107th Bethlehem Bach Festival is a grand feast of variety. The selection of cantatas alone offers ...