Stephen Johnson on how Leipzig's coffee society found its counterpart in Bach's music. Read more ...

Stephen Johnson explores how Leipzig's coffee society found its perfect counterpart in the music of Bach and the orchestral suites which he performed among the clinking cups. Show more Stephen Johnson ...

Two of Bach's suites for orchestra frame duo concerto performances by some of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra's finest. Directed by William Hennessy, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra celebrates the ...

A bright new recording of Bach's Orchestral Suites from Ensemble Sonnerie. Bach's four Orchestral Suites are among his most famous works - not least because of Suite No.3, which includes the 'Air on ...

The Academy of Ancient Music, one of Britain's foremost early-music groups, gave a splendid concert Saturday night at Strathmore under the direction of harpsichordist Richard Egarr. The program, ...

The Sept. 24 death of prominent conductor and musicologist Christopher Hogwood came just as the orchestra he founded in 1973, the Academy of Ancient Music, was set to take on some of his signature ...

“Orchestral Suites for a young prince” is what this release advertises, in reference to the fact that Sonnerie perform Bach’s familiar suites in versions ...

As prolific a composer (and patriarch) as Johann Sebastian Bach was, he managed to compose a precious few instrumental orchestral works. Besides solo instrument concertos, there exist only the six ...

A pared-down reading that positively shines. John Suchet's Album of the Week, 27 October 2014 Written during the composer's Leipzig period, where he had a wider range of instruments at his disposal ...

Written in 1707, the Dixit Dominus is Handel's earliest surviving manuscript. Hear this incredible music in a shining performance with the Stockholm Bach Choir, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble, and ...

The tradition continues for The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, as the Bach at Noon concerts return for fall. The series begins Tuesday at Central Moravian Church and will be led by new Artistic Director and ...

Basle and Freiburg, barely 50 miles apart on either side of the Swiss/German border, are where the nexus of the period movement now resides, thanks to two chamber orchestras who have snatched the ...