Surely one of the greatest gifts J.S. Bach gave to music was to have produced a cantata for every week of the year, including no fewer than three for the first Sunday in Advent alone. Even more ...

As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...

The venerable Bach Choir of Bethlehem will perform its Christmas concerts in the West End of Allentown on Saturday afternoon, December 9th, 4 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church (3231 West Tilghman ...

Seattle Bach Festival is offering a different way into the Christmas story that trades the grand sweep of Handel's "Messiah" ...

In its Christmas concert, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra presents colorful soundscapes and a newly interpreted program of Bach's Christmas cantatas. Our Christmas concerts in Berlin, Freiburg and ...

Sometimes music is most moving when it evokes the past. Familiar works that engage listeners in emotional time-travel include Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis” and much of the ...

Ask leaders of Twin Cities arts organizations, "What changed during COVID?" and you'll often hear the word, "collaboration." Groups that once considered themselves competitors started having ...

Handel might have a chokehold on holiday-season oratorios with “Messiah.” But Bach’s lesser-known “Christmas Oratorio” has some festive fireworks and exultant beauty of its own. “The U.S. has adopted ...