In one of Bach's better known cantatas, No. 140, Wachet auf — "Wake up!" — Hahn introduces a duet with soprano Christine Schafer as the eager bride and baritone Matthias Goerne as Jesus, the soul's ...

Recording a CD of some of your favourite music with colleagues and friends you have been playing with for half your life is a momentous occasion. I have played with the English Baroque Soloists since ...

Sometimes music is most moving when it evokes the past. Familiar works that engage listeners in emotional time-travel include Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis” and much of the ...

When Johann Sebastian Bach took up in 1723 the post of Thomaskantor (Cantor at St. Thomas Church) in Leipzig, (this post having been offered first to Georg Philipp Telemann and Christoph Graupner, ...

Bach Collegium San Diego opened its 17th season Friday evening with a few firsts. Its concert at Cuyamaca College in Rancho San Diego was the first time BCSD performed in East County. It also marked ...

The American Bach Soloists will open their 2016 set of concerts at Davis Community Church, 412 C St., at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, with “Bach Favorites,” an all-Johann Sebastian Bach program of cantatas ...

Johann Sebastian Bach composed more than 200 cantatas — substantial but relatively short works for solo voices, chorus and orchestra. Most of them were intended to be part of the Lutheran Sunday ...