The Bach family was one of the most musically active dynasties of the 17th and 18th centuries, with many musicians and composers around the courts and churches of what is now Germany. Johann Sebastian ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Having spent most of his career focusing on the large sacred and instrumental works, Gardiner now tells us that ...

The name Johann Sebastian Bach towers over classical music like a titan. If there were a Mount Rushmore of classical composers, there’s no way his jowly visage and concerned countenance wouldn’t be a ...

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Yet another new recording of Bach's Motets. For years, these pieces, perhaps with the exception of Jesu, Meine Freude, were much less well known than Bach's passions, Mass In B Minor, and the major ...

The Moseley Memorial Music Series at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church is hosting Bach Society Houston’s Bach Choir in A Festival of Motets, a preview of Bach Choir’s summer performance in Germany. The ...

With just one singer assigned to each part, the Hilliard Ensemble take a minimalist approach to these extraordinary works. Seven of Bach's motets are included - all but one (the four-part Lobet Den ...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner could easily divide his professional career into "before BCP" and after "BCP." At the close of the 20th Century, Gardiner began the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage with the bulk of the ...

Motets are choral pieces set to sacred texts, although examples do exist of motets for accompanied solo voices. Although Bach may have composed more motets than the ones which are extant, the overall ...

You can’t go wrong with Bach. Any time. Any place. Performed in just about any cockamamie way. Bach befits Christmas better than any other composer, although he isn’t usually the first to be called ...