In 1993, when Robert von Bahr received a letter at his Stockholm office proposing that his company, BIS Records, undertake a complete cycle of all 200 Bach cantatas with someone named Masaaki Suzuki ...

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 ...

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 ...

Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford leads the American Classical Orchestra (ACO), New York City's foremost period instrument orchestra, in a program of much-loved Bach cantatas at the ...

The senior choir at St. John the Baptist Norway Church, 470 Woodbine Ave. at Kingston Road, will present Cantata 150 by J.S. Bach, during its Sunday, March 30 service at 10:30 a.m. The concert will ...

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 ...

When I last reviewed a CD of the ongoing survey of Bach’s cantatas by St. Gallen’s Bach Foundation or Bachstiftung, volume 13 in that series was the hook to talk about the merits of the project in ...

“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, ...

JS Bach’s cantata for Ascension Day: ‘Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein’ will be on display until 2025 Oxford’s Bodleian Library has announced the acquisition of the original manuscript of JS Bach’s ...

Bach Collegium Japan's deservedly acclaimed project to record all of Bach's cantatas has reached volume 51, which turns out to be an especially vibrant and generously filled collection of sacred ...