Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise, one of the pieces featured in this year’s Nancy D. Hawk Memorial Day Concert, includes no words but features a soprano soloist singing a single vowel sound of her ...

“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 ...

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, ...

Choosing the "best" of Johann Sebastian Bach's nearly 200 sacred cantatas is a daunting task, as each one seems perfect. But three leading Bach experts took up the challenge. Peter Wollny, director of ...

Dancers sinuously intertwine, trumpets and timpani crash heroically, a chorus of nearly 100 voices soars. The music of J.S. Bach can blow your socks off. It’s about time the image of Bach as a stodgy ...