Was Johann Sebastian Bach Western classical music’s “last Asian composer”? The question was raised in Bombay in March 1985 at a seminar celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great ...

One of the more unexpected side effects of the digital revolution, it seems, has been to turn us all into remixers. Unthinkable even a decade ago, we all now routinely borrow and collage, recombining ...

For 38-year-old composer Johann Sebastian Bach, his 1723 appointment as musical director (Thomaskantor) in the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig must have seemed like a huge step. What Bach could not know ...

As her Australian tour kicks off, one of the world’s great Bach interpreters talks the death of CDs, the decline in arts journalism and dancing to classical music Angela Hewitt always had a thing for ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Calm and graceful, this cello piece by Bach slowly dances through hopefulness, longing and introspection. Calm and graceful, this cello piece ...

Classical music is having something of a modern renaissance. With sales of classical CDs and streaming increasing by more than 10% last year - almost double the average rise across all genres - more ...

The famous conductor Hans von Bülow, slightly less famous as a pianist now and nearly forgotten as a composer, remains most present to modern music lovers either as the jilted husband of Cosima von ...

The Modern Jazz Quartet epitomized what some observers labeled, perhaps derisively, "chamber jazz." The recently formed Classical Jazz Quartet (CJQ), featuring bassist Ron Carter, pianist Kenny Barron ...

Marking Johann Sebastian Bach's arrival in Leipzig 300 years ago, this year's festival features conductor Jörg Widmann and pianist Lang Lang — as well as a message from outer space. For 38-year-old ...

The New Modern Jazz Quartet... It is hard to not compare this Classical Jazz Quartet to the Modern Jazz Quartet. They both have the same format of outstanding individual superstars, they both have a ...