Intrigued by Radio 3's Bach-filled Christmas, but don't know where to start? Joe Staines and Duncan Clark show how beginners can get their teeth into Bach, with the composer's top ten works and ...

He came from a distinguished musical lineage in Germany, many of whom were also composers and musicians. In his day Bach was revered as a virtuoso organist, however his legacy lies in the hundreds of ...

Throughout my time as Gramophone Editor there have been numerous occasions when, month after month, one composer has reliably featured in my Editor’s Choice selection, sometimes more than once. That ...

My son Sam, as some of you know, is an accomplished pianist and composer here in DC. [his website's here] He and Ralitza Patcheva, a close friend and colleague (and masterful Bach interpreter), have ...

Bach first performed his St John Passion at Vespers on Good Friday in Leipzig at the St Nicholas Church, April 7th, 1724. It was the first Passion music he had written as cantor in Leipzig. The story ...

Gramophone has just issued a special publication drawing together some of the most significant articles from our archives exploring the music of JS Bach. Across 100 pages of beautifully-presented ...

As a young man, Johann Sebastian Bach made a long journey on foot to see a famous organist perform. Bach, a gifted performer but not yet a composer, was given one month leave from his employer in ...

Playing on a modern Steinway, the Italian pianist invests Bach’s keyboard works with vitality and a memorable soft-edged inwardness Last year, the young Italian pianist Federico Colli made waves with ...

Some years ago I was lucky enough to have a conversation with the late, great composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies about religious music. We talked about whether the composer of sacred music had to be a ...

Within any classical musical genre, there are two sorts of piece. There are the thousands of routine works which have vanished completely. And there are the few dozens which soar above routine, and ...

Zaha Hadid Architects have built an installation at Manchester Art Gallery to house performances of music by Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach. A translucent, fabric membrane stretched over a ...