Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of the great Johann Sebastian, didn't write much for organ. But there's such an idiosyncratically cheeky brio to what he did that it's well worth exploring. Ton Koopman ...

Who needs a continuo? The Flautist has both melody and bass covered... You usually hear Bach's beautiful flute sonatas with a solo flute, and then accompanying basso continuo (harpsichord, chamber ...

This historic organ (47/III), tuned at A466 in the original organ builder’s own temperament, was reconstructed in 2004-7 and seems a perfect instrument for these sonatas. The recording is very well ...

This week's From the Top, hosted by pianist Peter Dugan, celebrates the various ways music has created community in the lives of the featured young artists. The episode features a strong number of ...

There’s such an abundance of trio sonatas that you might wonder why anyone would want to plunder Bach’s organ music to arrange more. Well, sadly, the trio sonata was not much cultivated by Bach, so ...

Colin MacKnight is getting "organized." Starting Wednesday, he's planning to perform the entire collected organ works of Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach this year, marking the 275th anniversary ...

(RNS) — Ask flutists to name the greatest pieces for their instrument and high on the list will be Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Sonata in B minor” for flute and keyboard. Now believed to have been written ...

In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...