He was the first to record all of J.S. Bach’s nearly 200 sacred cantatas, a project that stood out not only for its range but also for its steadfast style.

The German conductor, who died earlier this month at age 92, co-founded the Oregon Bach Festival and recorded Bach’s complete surviving cantatas—the great hidden treasures of the composer’s oeuvre.

MARLBORO -- On Sunday at 3 p.m., at Marlboro College’s Persons Auditorium, the Brattleboro Music Center will present a memorial concert in celebration of the long life, incomparable artistry and ...

Maestro Harold Rosenbaum and The New York Virtuoso Singers will present the second live concert of their 2022-23 New York City season on Saturday, October 22 @ 7:30 PM at Merkin Hall at The Kaufman ...

Boston’s Emmanuel Music, which has been performing cantatas by J.S. Bach every Sunday for the past 50 years, will perform three solo cantatas as part of Music Worcester’s THE COMPLETE BACH (TCB) on ...

Portland’s own Bach Cantata Choir will sing in Leipzig, Germany, as part of the 2024 Leipzig Bach Festival, the preeminent festival centered on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The festival ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is famous for his innovative, beautiful, and technically difficult pieces for orchestral ensembles and keyboard instruments. He also played the violin and wrote all sorts of solo ...

The American Bach Soloists will open their 2016 set of concerts at Davis Community Church, 412 C St., at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, with “Bach Favorites,” an all-Johann Sebastian Bach program of cantatas ...

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, ...

What choirs and players we heard in The Childhood of Christ, too. This performance may have lost two of its original lynchpins, Sarah Connolly and Mark Elder – we wish them well – but Julie Boulianne ...

If one wonders why Johann Ludwig – Bach’s distant cousin, employed 150 miles away at the court of Meiningen – was so favoured by Johann Sebastian, these 18 cantatas provide the answer. With so little ...