Jane Jones tells how Bach found a new harpsichord, a new wife and looked for a new job. At the beginning of the 18th century, all the decent music jobs were linked with either church or state, and ...

No one needs to be told why “The Messiah” or “The Nutcracker” have become Christmas perennials. There are, of course, further Christmas-themed works of glory galore. It’s time we dig out Bach’s joyous ...

Six incredible works of art, and six reasons they changed everything. In 1721, Johann Sebastian Bach carefully packaged together six of his finest concertos and sent them to a Christian Ludwig, ...

Virtuosic, dynamic and overflowing with richly imaginative music, Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos still sound as fresh and exciting today as they must have when audiences first heard these works ...

Since he became the Leipzig Gewandhaus's Kapellmeister in 2005, Riccardo Chailly has been at pains to emphasise the music of the two composers most closely associated with the city: Mendelssohn and ...

If the starting point for the Brandenburg Concertos was the concerti grossi of Italian composers like Corelli and Vivaldi, the ways in which Bach elaborated and varied those models took them far from ...

Coinciding with the October Brandenburg performances, the ensemble will also release two albums featuring Bach on British record label AVIE. “I’m so glad that Bach is our guide star this season, ...

Yet the look, and sound, of these six pieces “for several instruments”, rather obsequiously dedicated by the job-seeking Bach to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721, can still startle audiences. Last ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There are so many recordings of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos that a unique selling point is helpful for any new ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are some of the most important Baroque compositions written. They are actually a collection of ideas that Bach composed over a ten year period while he ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are some of the most important Baroque compositions written. They are actually a collection of ideas that Bach composed over a ten year period while he ...