Nothing if not unpredictable, Nikolaus Harnoncourt follows his controversial reading of Porgy and Bess with three Bach cantatas, as his 80th birthday celebrations bring us full circle to a definable ...

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) Music Director Jeffrey Kahane serves as musical "tour guide" for LACO's annual "Discover" performance, a special one-night-only exploration of Bach's popular ...

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.

In one of Bach's better known cantatas, No. 140, Wachet auf — "Wake up!" — Hahn introduces a duet with soprano Christine Schafer as the eager bride and baritone Matthias Goerne as Jesus, the soul's ...

LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Chamber Singers and conductor John Erwin sort of pulled a fast one on the audience at Friday night’s “Bach Cantatas” concert at Little Rock’s St. James United Methodist ...

Johann Sebastian Bach composed more than 200 cantatas — substantial but relatively short works for solo voices, chorus and orchestra. Most of them were intended to be part of the Lutheran Sunday ...