Boston Baroque opens its 50th Season with Bach's beloved Mass in B minor this October. The performance on Saturday, October 15 at 8pm will be held at GBH's Calderwood Studio in Brighton, welcoming ...

You’ve probably heard the mandolin, but you may NOT have heard music by Johann Sebastian Bach played on the mandolin. Avi Avital wants to change that. Hear Avi Avital play his arrangement of one of ...

J. S. Bach and His Family at Morning Prayers (1870) Imagine living up to the reputation of a successful father like Johann Sebastian Bach?! The musician had several children who followed in his ...

Experience Rachel Podger's unique brand of Baroque music as she tackles Bach's Double and Triple violin concertos with the Brecon Baroque ensemble. John Suchet's Album of the Week, 6 May 2013. An ...

“When in doubt, cite Grout,” my mother said. She was referring to Donald Jay Grout’s “A History of Western Music.” First published by W.W. Norton in 1960, it has gone through 10 editions and is ...

Rachel Podger’s ensemble were well attuned to the cumulative powers of JS Bach, while Mahan Esfahani brought humanity on and off the stage JS Bach wrote his Musical Offering in response to the royal ...

Ton Koopman’s zest for the baroque master shone through in a joyful programme of some of his best-known music, even if the lack of instrumental balance would have triggered the symmetry-loving ...

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The Beatles’ 1968 song “Blackbird” from their eponymous “White Album” has become one of the Fab Four’s most distinctive songs in their catalogue, and as it turns out, a song for which we have Baroque ...

An irony of music history is that Johann Sebastian Bach never actually heard one of his greatest choral works -- the Mass in B Minor -- performed in its entirety. If he had, it might have sounded ...

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