“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, ...

“For the glory of God alone.” With these words, Bach signed off each of his two hundred sacred cantatas. But with so many to choose from, it’s hard to know where to begin. Our guide lifts the lid on a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The transience of life, suffering and death: these are the bleak thoughts that prevail throughout the four cantatas chosen for the sixth ...

Listening to “Cantata 78” by Johann Sebastian Bach, one can almost hear the “eager yet faltering footsteps” of a soul going to see Jesus. Bach “painted” this picture through his composition, as he did ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Chattanooga Bach Choir 2018-19 Barnett & Company Cantata Series concludes Sunday at 5 p.m., with music celebrating the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25). The concert will be held at Christ ...

Part of a lost composition by Johann Sebastian Bach has been found in Japan nearly eight decades after it went missing, a Japanese music professor said Sunday. Eight pages of the 1728 composition ...

Johann Sebastian Bach has been a central figure in the life of British conductor John Eliot Gardiner since he was a youngster. On his way to bed, he couldn't help glancing up at the famous ...

“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, ...