Bursting with grandeur and elegance, the festival begins with Bach’s electrifying Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, followed by the richly moving Concerto No. 6. Caroline Shaw’s Bach-inspired Concerto for ...

Live at the BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall, The Swedish Chamber Orchestra perform Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard. Over two concerts in one day, Thomas Dausgaard and ...

If I hadn't been on duty, I would have left after the first half of Thursday night's Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert. Under guest conductor Richard Egarr — a British baroque-music specialist, mind ...

Jane Jones tells how Bach found a new harpsichord, a new wife and looked for a new job. At the beginning of the 18th century, all the decent music jobs were linked with either church or state, and ...

John Gibbons is the harpsichord soloist, with flutist Tara Helen O'Connor and violinist Joseph Silverstein. Together with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, they play the Brandenburg ...

Within any classical musical genre, there are two sorts of piece. There are the thousands of routine works which have vanished completely. And there are the few dozens which soar above routine, and ...

International Bach specialist John Butt and his group the Dunedin Consort let us inside their Edinburgh rehearsals for a performance of Brandenburg Concerto No.2. Show more The insiders' take on ...

J.S. Bach came from a family of successful musicians and was one of the most prominent composers of the Baroque period, writing six concertos for the noblemen of Brandenburg. Bach took on the work in ...

Still a crowd-pleaser after 300 years. Think of your favorite pop song. Will it still be a crowd-pleaser 300 years from now? That's a question J.S. Bach probably never thought to ask when he presented ...