There’s a reason classical music devotees return to Bethlehem’s Bach Festival year after year. It’s to discover new works. New in this context means a work performed for the first time at the festival ...

Choosing the "best" of Johann Sebastian Bach's nearly 200 sacred cantatas is a daunting task, as each one seems perfect. But three leading Bach experts took up the challenge. Peter Wollny, director of ...

At 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 17, Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church will present J.S. Bach's Cantata #4, Christ lag in Todesbanden; Christ lay in Death's strong bonds. Soloists for Cantata #4, which ...

As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...

Johann Sebastian Bach had an explosively productive year when he started working as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. This DW Festival Concert episode from the Bach Festival presents some of his creative, ...