Bach's arrangements of hymn tunes found their way into cantatas, organ preludes, motets and other pieces. Find out more about them here. A chorale is usually a simple and catchy melody to which a hymn ...

The selection of chorales and songs by Bach, Schubert, and Brahms was a masterpiece. The city is full of good concerts, and occasionally you’ll attend one good enough to make you think that, despite ...

Christoph Poppen, violin; Hilliard Ensemble (ECM New Series). Welcome inside the head of J.S. Bach. The composer often embedded familiar Lutheran chorales in his music so as to create devout ...

As was customary in the Lutheran rituals of death and dying, Bach died at home, probably on the second floor of the cantor’s apartments in the Thomasschule, in his own bedroom above the Thomasplatz. A ...

Disclaimer: This is an archived article dated before Saturday 1 January 2022. As such, images and embedded content may be missing. According to the Big Choral Census published by charity Voices Now ...

The same refrain has been heard among Sarasota’s performing artists as they slowly emerge from the confines of the pandemic and begin to perform again: The restrictions of COVID-19 have made them ...