Janine Jansen

On The Bach Hour, the Dutch violinist performs Bach's music with her father, Jan Jansen, and Masaaki Suzuki leads Bach Collegium Japan through the kinetic, quicksilver energy of the Cantata No. 26.

On The Bach Hour, a masterpiece, ignored when it was new, reveals a revolutionary spirit in a vivid performance by harpsichordist John Butt and the Dunedin Consort in Scotland.

On The Bach Hour, violist Maxim Rysanov's interpretation of the composer's Cello Suite No. 1 is a merging of two musical approaches that mirror his own path through life, and Masaaki Suzuki conducts the Cantata No. 92.

The Artistic Director of the Handel and Haydn Society talks with host Brian McCreath about the unique expressions of Bach’s motets and directs one of them, Jesu, meine Freude, on The Bach Hour.