No one needs to be told why “The Messiah” or “The Nutcracker” have become Christmas perennials. There are, of course, further Christmas-themed works of glory galore. It’s time we dig out Bach’s joyous ...

Virtuosic, dynamic and overflowing with richly imaginative music, Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos still sound as fresh and exciting today as they must have when audiences first heard these works ...

Bach wrote a fair amount of music involving the flute. Later in the hour, we'll be in concert with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, who play Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, which features the flute ...

There is a range of strategies for playing Bach on the piano, from the clipped and elegant to the thunderous. On this new collection of keyboard concertos, French pianist Alexandre Tharaud - a ...

The Australian Chamber Orchestra and Richard Tognetti present an unmissable album of Bach concertos. Bach is food for the soul, and this collection of four concertos explores the warmth, intimacy and ...

To celebrate Monica Huggett’s 25 years as artistic director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the ensemble will launch “Monica’s Dream Season” with Bach’s “Brandenburg Concertos” – all six of them – ...

One of the pleasures of the summer was the late nights spent at the BBC Proms in the company of Alina Ibragimova playing Bach. On this disc she plays not solo Bach (she has already recorded much of ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are some of the most important Baroque compositions written. They are actually a collection of ideas that Bach composed over a ten year period while he ...

Something old, something new. Something borrowed. Something ...? No, it's not a wedding and they're not playing the blues. The Aulos Ensemble, which made a splash at Staller Center a few seasons back ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are some of the most important Baroque compositions written. They are actually a collection of ideas that Bach composed over a ten year period while he ...