[Performance Video] Bach "Sinfonia No. 9 in F Minor"—The chromaticism of sighs and the deep prayer woven by three voices

The 15 "Sinfonias" left behind by J.S. Bach. Among the three-part polyphony reached after the two-part Inventions, this ...
MetalSucks

J.S. BACH = THE MOST METAL OF ALL COMPOSERS

Rather than the usual aural assault, this morning I decided to tune my radio to 89.9 FM (WKCR here in NYC), who are celebrating the life of Johann Sebastian Bach all week during their annual “Bach ...

Minsoo Sohn plays J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I on modern piano

Tonight, I am listening to J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, performed on piano by Minsoo Sohn and released by ...
The Guardian

Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years

Archive director in Germany says ‘missing piece of puzzle’ now in place to verify authorship after decades of research Two long-lost organ pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach have been performed in ...
Gramophone

JS BACH Transcribed for Piano

Preludes and Fugues, Movements: Prelude and Fugue in A, BWV536 Angelika Nebel, Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer (18) Chorales, 'Leipzig Chorales', Movements: ~ Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer ...
Gramophone

JS BACH The Art of Fugue

Zhu Xiao-Mei’s interpretation is more impulsive, characterised by unpredictable dynamic contrasts and a wider berth of tempo fluctuation. You hear this immediately in No 4’s exposition, where the loud ...
Christianity Today

The Gospel According to J.S. Bach: Did You Know?

BAROQUE: The period of music history from 1600 to 1750, beginning with the birth of opera and ending with the death of Bach. This was an era characterized by flamboyance and vivid expression. It was ...
Jazz

J.S. Bach Works & Reworks

CD1: Prelude & Fughetta in G Major, BWV 902 - 1. Prelude; Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein, Chorale Prelude BWV 734 (Transcr. Wilhelm Kempff); Prelude & Fugue in E Minor (Well-Tempered Clavier, ...
Reason

JS Bach, Re-Imagined

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 ...
American Enterprise Institute

When JS Bach came to Leipzig

Almost exactly 300 years ago, the newly-appointed music director at St Thomas’s Church in Leipzig assumed his duties. The appointee hadn’t been the Leipzig City Council’s first or even second choice ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Bach Against Modernity’ Review: Sacred Cantatas and Concertos

Modern biographers of the great classical composers have often been reluctant to concede the sincerity of their subjects’ assertions of religious belief. Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, ...