Headlining was flute soloist Demarre McGill — who grew up in city music programs like the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra ...

Christian Ludwig, an 18th-century nobleman with the title of Margrave of Brandenburg, didn’t deserve the immortality that J.S. Bach’s music has given him. The 35-year-old Bach, at the margrave’s ...

The Arizona Bach Festival brings superb musicians from around the world each year to join with local artists in presenting ...

Brahms once declared that the greatest events of his lifetime were the founding of the German Empire and the publication of Bach’s complete works. Indeed, what distinguished Johann Sebastian Bach from ...

It’s been less than a year since the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, half a century old, much recorded, inveterate tourists, visited Segerstrom Concert Hall. The London-based ensemble can no ...

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 ...

Though there has been something refreshingly unfashionable about the series of Bach recordings from Riccardo Chailly and his superb Leipzig orchestra that refuse to pay any heed to modern ideas of how ...

Julia Fischer is one of the fastest-rising stars in the classical music world today. She came to widespread attention in 2007 as winner of the prestigious Artist of the Year prize at the Classic FM ...

Bach's concertos - they're essential listening. The Brandenburg Concertos, the keyboard concertos… they're all great, but what is it about the Violin Concerto in A minor that keeps people coming back ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. After their superlative recording of Bach’s Orchestral Suites two years ago, it was only a matter of time before the ...

Bach wrote a fair amount of music involving the flute. Later in the hour, we'll be in concert with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, who play Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, which features the flute ...