In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn ...

To quote the French organist and composer Charles-Marie Widor, "To play the organ properly, one should have a vision of eternity." Widor died in 1937, so he was spared the transformation of the pipe ...

A mighty Bach organ Toccata – with actual flames. Con fuoco! Someone has built an organ that shoots out actual flames – and this guy has played some Bach on it. This incredible instrument was found at ...

Bach’s nine-minute-long composition is one of the best-known pieces for organ – but it also sounds super-eerie on glass harp. This musician – Robert Tiso on YouTube – has worked out how to play Bach’s ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is undoubtedly the greatest composer for the “king of instruments,” the organ — think the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 — and it has been a tradition on Montpelier ...

The more than 200 solo organ works that bracket the prodigious composing career of Johann Sebastian Bach have long been every organist’s Bible. Rare is the organ recital that doesn’t include such ...

Mechanics Hall in Worcester is home to the famed Hook Organ, also known as the Worcester Organ. And GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath sat down with Mechanics Hall principal organist Peter ...

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, ...

PT host Fred Child joins us again from Los Angeles to introduce music recorded by the LA Philharmonic. We hear the famous Bach (1685-1750) Toccata and Fugue arranged from organ music to orchestra ...