Bach's concertos - they're essential listening. The Brandenburg Concertos, the keyboard concertos… they're all great, but what is it about the Violin Concerto in A minor that keeps people coming back ...

Janine Jansen and friends share their passion for Bach's chamber music. Album of the Weekend, 2-3 November 2013. For her 'Bach Project', Janine Jansen is touring Europe joined by twelve of her closest ...

Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (NAHD-yah sah-LAIR-noh SOH-nen-berg) paid a visit to Kleinhans (KLINE hanz) Music Hall in Buffalo a couple of seasons back. She played both of J.S. Bach's violin ...

Recording a CD of some of your favourite music with colleagues and friends you have been playing with for half your life is a momentous occasion. I have played with the English Baroque Soloists since ...

The multi-Gramophone Award winner discusses her new recording of Bach concertos, sinfonias and trio sonatas with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin You can listen to the Podcast above. To hear other ...

It’s been less than a year since the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, half a century old, much recorded, inveterate tourists, visited Segerstrom Concert Hall. The London-based ensemble can no ...

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 ...

Janine Jansen’ s Bach concertos collection, for which the Dutch violist is joined by friends and family (father Jan on harpsichord and brother Maarten on cello), is more idiosyncratic than you might ...

Bach frequently recycled his own music, and Ottavio Dantone believes the arrangements are so satisfactory because his works "are so structurally and conceptually perfect that they transcend the ...

Podger is one of the most creative violinists in the field, constantly pushing the boundaries of baroque performance practice and propagating her findings through her teaching and the festival she ...

The main connection between Bach and Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina is spirituality - both were steeped in it. The Bach concertos open it with brisk tempos, restrained vibrato, and Anne-Sophie ...