For a great number of musicians today, all roads lead to Bach. It doesn’t seem to matter what their own area of specialisation is. Bach is a spiritual leader, an explorer and an intellectual giant ...

Soloists Anna Fredericka Popova and Nicholas Garza perform during The Dallas Bach Society presentation of Bach's Passion According to Saint Matthew at the Meyerson Symphony Center on March 26, 2018 in ...

One of Bach's two famous sacred oratorios, this amazing piece was first performed on 11 April 1727 in Leipzig. Good Friday 1727 in Leipzig was a particularly good Good Friday, thanks to the ...

JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion is a three-hour musical portrayal of Christ’s suffering that can be an ordeal but, with guidance, a magnificent one says Damian Thompson Velasquez's Christ on the Cross, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When he was growing up, Masaaki Suzuki formed a deep love for the music of Bach — not then very familiar in ...

When booking opened in May for this year’s BBC Proms, one of the first performances to sell out was that of a work that remained unplayed for nearly a century and that even its composer heard probably ...

The hall is packed, and the stage, too, with Toronto’s Tafelmusik orchestra and choir divided into two groups, plus a children’s chorus in the balcony. Masaaki Suzuki, one of the greatest living ...

In this episode of DW Festival Concert with Cristina Burack, we listen to the St. Mathew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach. It's a piece that tells the story of Christ's crucifixion and death. Every ...