Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The transience of life, suffering and death: these are the bleak thoughts that prevail throughout the four cantatas chosen for the sixth ...

The Leipzig Bach Festival is an annual event. But it has surely never been quite like this before. The festival’s artistic director, Michael Maul, and the president and director, respectively, of the ...

To many pious German devotees of Johann Sebastian Bach, the singing of the St. Thomas Church Choir in Leipzig, East Germany, is the voice of Holy Writ. The choir school, attached to Leipzig’s famed ...

The Music: Here are two cantatas for Christmas Day, two for Epiphany and three for the following Sunday, most of them composed in the 1720s. The emotional range is astonishingly wide, from choral ...

The Carmel Bach Festival continues its out-of-pattern season of guest conductors and intriguing musical diversity with a stunning concert led by Norway’s choral genius Grete Pederson Saturday evening.

It”s Bach time again! In one week, members of the Carmel Bach Festival arrive from around the world to begin their whirlwind rehearsal schedule for two weeks of full-immersion music and events July 13 ...