English Baroque Soloists

On The Bach Hour, a prosaic name obscures the brilliance and emotional impact of the composer’s music, performed by one of today’s most thoughtful and dynamic pianists.

On The Bach Hour, the Welsh soprano is the soloist in the first recording of a cantata that had been lost for almost three centuries, a discovery described by Harvard University's Christoph Wolff.

On The Bach Hour, John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in the Cantata 190, "Sing to the Lord a New Song," written for New Year's Day.

On The Bach Hour, soprano Malin Hartelius and trumpeter Niklas Eklund are the soloists in a work marked by virtuosity, deep soulfulness, and ravishing exuberance.

On The Bach Hour, the Artistic Director of the Handel and Haydn Society offers his insights into the emotionally devastating final part of one of the composer's most powerful masterpieces.

On The Bach Hour, the Artistic Director of the Handel and Haydn Society offers his own insights and interpretations of one of the composer's most powerful masterpieces.

On The Bach Hour, the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin brings vibrant textures and colors to the composer's ultimate musical statement in counterpoint, and John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Cantata No. 181, confronting "light-minded, frivolous spirits."

On the program:Lute Suite No. 4, BWV 1006a - David Russell, guitarCantata BWV 51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen! (translation) - Malin Hartelius, soprano;…