Sara Mohr-Pietsch surveys the musical landscape surrounding JS Bach's iconic Toccata and Fugue BWV 565. This keyboard tour-de ...

Many DJs spun, mixed and scratched their way through Johann Sebastian Bach's "Little" Fugue in G Minor for the chance to win $500 in Eugene, Ore., this week. We hear the efforts of the top three ...

In the last decade of his life, from 1740 to 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach abandoned the furious pace of composition he had maintained for over 30 years and concentrated his creative energies largely on ...

Many people, if they wonder how music is made up, suppose that it consists of a tune and an accompaniment. The paradigmatic guitarist in front of a campfire croons the melody, while his hands create ...

The pairing of Bach’s unfinished composition with Webern’s spare pieces for string quartet works well, although background noise takes the shine off The three works for string quartet by Anton Webern ...

Following the sad news that the Bach-loving jazz pianist Jacques Loussier has died, we've delved into the archive to find one of his most irresistible performances Jacques Loussier, the jazz pianist ...

Many folks would call Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor the ultimate piece of scary music, thanks to any number of horror movies and pop culture moments that have used its thundering organ sounds as ...

In The Art of Fugue, “Bach plays to God and himself in an empty church”, the critic and composer Wilfrid Mellers memorably wrote. The sequence of 20 fugues and canons, grouped according to the ...