Johann Sebastian Bach had an explosively productive year when he started working as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. This DW Festival Concert episode from the Bach Festival presents some of his creative, ...

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 ...

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 ...

What: Ton Koopman conducts works by Bach. When: 8 p.m. Nov. 19 and 20. Where:: Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Tickets:: $40-$136. Go to ...

Ton Koopman leads members of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and chorus in a chorale from Bach's Cantata No. 147, "Jesus, bleibet meine fruede." ...

As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...

The Leipzig Bach Festival is an annual event. But it has surely never been quite like this before. The festival’s artistic director, Michael Maul, and the president and director, respectively, of the ...