Last May, as the final serene measures of the “Dona nobis pacem” sounded in St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston, the music also served to sunset Bach Week, the annual festival celebrating J.S.

It’s time for the 89th annual Bach Festival, a mix of old and new. Returning favorites include the popular “Spiritual Spaces” and “Concertos by Candlelight” programs. A new visitor is the European ...

Bach has been in the background for most of my life, one way or another - the Brandenburg concertos in my parents' record collection when I was a boy; the Christmas music at school; and I remember ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is everywhere. Weddings? Bach. Haunted houses? Bach. Church? Bach. Shredding electric guitar solos? Look, it’s Bach! The Baroque composer produced more than 1100 works, from ...

“Ich habe genug,” Bach’s Cantata No. 82, is commonly rendered in English as “I am content.” At the cantata’s center is a lullaby of consoling sweetness, generosity of spirit and somnolent blessedness, ...

DEE-JAR- SHOWS US WHY THIS YEAR'S PERFORMANCES ARE DRAWING RECORD CROWDS.# FOR NEARLY 60 YEARS THE CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL HAS BROUGHT WORLD CLASSICAL MUSIC TO THE CENTRAL COAST. NOW IN IT'S EIGHTY ...

In 1992, Peter Wollny uncovered a pair of chaconnes, a series of variations played over a short, repeated bass line, in the Royal Library of Belgium that seemed indicative of Bach’s early compositions ...

It’s exciting news, if a bit niche: Researchers have attributed two new works to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The announcement this week coincided with the 75th anniversary of the Bach Archive ...

The Mass in B minor is as lofty in design, scope and expression as anything written by the hand of man. It's one of several instances in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in which a piece is created ...

“O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!” The words of the Psalm look bright on the page, but the music pulls them into shadow. The key is G minor. The bass instruments drone on ...