Bach's Italian Concerto:Why is Bach's Italian Concerto called a concerto when it's for solo piano? We'll find out the answer, and hear a performance from Winter Park, Florida, with pianist Leon Bates.

Victoria Baroque Players: Italian Bach When/where: Sunday, 7: 30 p.m., Church of St. John the Divine (1611 Quadra St.). Tickets: Adults $20, students and children $5. In person at Larsen Music, Long ...

The 18th-century Italian concerto had a profound influence on Bach. He obtained copies of concertos by Vivaldi, Torelli and the Marcello brothers and learnt their styles by arranging them for solo ...

WHEN film director Mike Leigh’s production of The Pirates Of Penzance was premiered in 2015, the slightly reverential approach lacked the anarchic quality of its librettist WS Gilbert. This time, ...

Each weekday morning during the 7 am hour, WQXR introduces a featured recording of music by J.S. Bach, which will be made available as a free podcast.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the world premiere of Mark Morris’s Italian Concerto, JS Bach’s score is played with great élan on piano by ...

Sometimes music is most moving when it evokes the past. Familiar works that engage listeners in emotional time-travel include Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis” and much of the ...