Christian Ludwig, an 18th-century nobleman with the title of Margrave of Brandenburg, didn’t deserve the immortality that J.S. Bach’s music has given him. The 35-year-old Bach, at the margrave’s ...
For any Twin Cities lover of the arts, there’s usually a particular December date they make every year. For theatergoers, it might be the Guthrie’s “A Christmas Carol” or — a tradition of more recent ...
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 ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Composed in the Italian concerto grosso style, Bach presented these distinct works ...
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, ...
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 ...
It’s been less than a year since the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, half a century old, much recorded, inveterate tourists, visited Segerstrom Concert Hall. The London-based ensemble can no ...
To celebrate Monica Huggett’s 25 years as artistic director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the ensemble will launch “Monica’s Dream Season” with Bach’s “Brandenburg Concertos” – all six of them – ...
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, ...