Hannah French explores Bach's Four Orchestral Suites, which although never published or seen as a collection in the composer's lifetime, contain some of his most enduring music. Show more Hannah ...

Craig Leon has recorded an album of some of the most famous orchestral works by J.S. Bach on a Moog synthesizer. And the result is mesmerizing… Craig Leon is as comfortable in the pop world as the ...

The news of the death of Christopher Hogwood comes just as the orchestra he founded, the Academy of Ancient Music, releases a fine new set of Bach’s Orchestral Suites, with his successor, Richard ...

“It sounds sudden, right?” laughs Roy Oppenheim, the orchestra’s co-founder and conductor. “But it’s actually not. Between Arik and Hagashash, we already did a Gershwin project, and years ago, a ...

As prolific a composer (and patriarch) as Johann Sebastian Bach was, he managed to compose a precious few instrumental orchestral works. Besides solo instrument concertos, there exist only the six ...

A bright new recording of Bach's Orchestral Suites from Ensemble Sonnerie. Bach's four Orchestral Suites are among his most famous works - not least because of Suite No.3, which includes the 'Air on ...

Bach's four orchestral suites, as we usually hear them, date from his years in Leipzig, where he had a relatively large orchestra at his disposal and could make full use of it in his scoring. But ...

Two of Bach's suites for orchestra frame duo concerto performances by some of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra's finest. Directed by William Hennessy, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra celebrates the ...

Víkingur Ólafsson's 'Continuum II' combines Bach keyboard works with new arrangements and arrives through Deutsche Grammophon ...

The Bach Society Orchestra played its first concert of the year with verve and discretion, though the fare offered was surprisingly light. Perhaps the orchestra's conductor, John Harbison, is thinking ...

The death of Christopher Hogwood was among the most notable losses in classical music during 2014. As founder of the Academy of Ancient Music, he was a leading pioneer of period instruments and it is ...

Where resides the best Bach Orchestra and Chorus in the world? Leipzig? Berlin? Germany at least? Amsterdam – where the great Bach tradition still lives on vibrantly? London, where the early music ...