Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Although Lisa Batiashvili is pictured on the cover (and in numerous glamorous photos through the booklet) this Bach ...
Yet the look, and sound, of these six pieces “for several instruments”, rather obsequiously dedicated by the job-seeking Bach to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721, can still startle audiences. Last ...
John Butt and the Dunedin Consort have already recorded Bach's Matthew and John Passions, as well as Handel's Messiah, and his oratorio Esther for Linn, but this is their first venture into purely ...
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 ...
Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings Masato Suzuki, Harpsichord Bach Collegium Japan Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings Masato Suzuki, Harpsichord Bach Collegium Japan Concerto for Harpsichord and ...
Prepare to feel completely inadequate: this string quartet are all aged between 6 and 10 years old, and they can knock out a mean Bach concerto. Ah, the mature and refined work of J.S. Bach. Something ...