On Saturday, St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church will resonate with the sacred music of Johann Sebastian Bach and the voices of the Yale Voxtet — an ensemble of eight singers in the early music voice ...
Conductor Masaaki Suzuki lives in a J.S. Bach world. He founded a Bach performance group in 1990 called the Bach Collegium Japan, which is currently recording all of Bach’s 200-plus cantatas at the ...
The performers stand in readiness. Then, propelled by Masaaki Suziki’s benign, ultra-clear beat, the music springs into action. The unflamboyant, serving-the-music approach of Suzuki and his players ...
LEIPZIG, Germany — What will Bachfest Leipzig do for an encore? You had to wonder almost from the start of this year’s installment, last Friday. The festival ...
Others, Masaaki Suzuki and Ton Koopman among them, have helped bring Bach’s cantatas to a wider audience than ever before. Their ongoing complete-recording cycles rest on the firm foundations of the ...
Given our Pacific Rim cultural credibility, Los Angeles has had a puzzlingly slender connection with Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Collegium Japan, Asia’s leading early music ensemble. Founded by Suzuki ...
The Schubert Club will be presenting the Bach Collegium Japan was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki, its inspirational Music Director, with the aim of introducing Japanese audiences to period ...
Bach is a global language. He’s understood by anyone moved by music that’s deeply lyrical, mathematical and spiritual. He’s a universal force, like Albert Einstein’s cosmic theories or Charlie Chaplin ...
Yuko Maruyama, a Japanese organist working in Minneapolis, was once a devout Buddhist. Now, thanks to the music of J. S. Bach, she is a Christian. "Bach introduced me to God, Jesus, and Christianity," ...
Three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach came to Leipzig as cantor. This was celebrated extensively at the Bachfest. His works continue to shape the music world today. When Johann Sebastian Bach ...
The Bach Collegium Japan have visited the UK so rarely, it might be possible to imagine that they have continued to plough a lonely furrow in another time zone. Far from it. For me at least, the ...