Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert’s circa-1970s recording of Bach’s Overtures will see a vinyl reissue next month, courtesy of Deutsch Grammophon’s Original Source series. The album features two ...

Was Johann Sebastian Bach Western classical music’s “last Asian composer”? The question was raised in Bombay in March 1985 at a seminar celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great ...

For 38-year-old composer Johann Sebastian Bach, his 1723 appointment as musical director (Thomaskantor) in the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig must have seemed like a huge step. What Bach could not know ...

Few, if any, composers in the past half century or so have attracted the vast and varied arrangements and transcriptions to the extent of JS Bach. To these, of course we must add those of Bach himself ...

The city where the young Mozart spent a year in the 1760s was also home to “the London Bach” – Johann Christian. Mozart held him and his music in the highest regard, so why have Londoners heard so ...

One of the more unexpected side effects of the digital revolution, it seems, has been to turn us all into remixers. Unthinkable even a decade ago, we all now routinely borrow and collage, recombining ...

More Bach JS Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos 3 & 5; CPE Bach: Sinfonia in C major; WF Bach: Sinfonia in F major Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg/Jürgen Gross (violin) Challenge Classics CC72960 54:23 ...

Classical music is having something of a modern renaissance. With sales of classical CDs and streaming increasing by more than 10% last year - almost double the average rise across all genres - more ...

Feeling ‘suite’ toothed? Must be the Bach... A study has been published showing how classical music makes us crave chocolate biscuits and other sweet treats. No, we’re not going crackers. This ...

Marking Johann Sebastian Bach's arrival in Leipzig 300 years ago, this year's festival features conductor Jörg Widmann and pianist Lang Lang — as well as a message from outer space. For 38-year-old ...