Johann Sebastian Bach

On The Bach Hour, John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in a work of gripping emotional power, the Cantata No. 19, for St. Michael and All Angels.

A performance at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition leads to a thriving concert career, and Philippe Herreweghe leads the Cantata No. 161 on The Bach Hour.

On The Bach Hour, the Principal Flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic is joined by his colleagues for one of Bach’s most virtuosic creations for his instrument.

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 Los Angeles-based violinist performs both parts - each on a different Stradivarius instrument - of one of the composer’s most dramatic concertos.

On The Bach Hour, the Concertmaster of Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society talks about her journey to period instrument performance and the centrality of Bach’s music in her artistic life.

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.

What collection of music by Bach was used both on the spacecraft Voyager’s two “Golden Records” in 1977 and in the kooky comedy movie "Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion?"

On The Bach Hour, destruction on a literally Biblical scale is at the foundation of music that grapples with mysteries and uncertainties that remain as relevant today as when Bach composed it.

On The Bach Hour, Ton Koopman leads Amsterdam Baroque in a work that broke new ground for the composer, expressing a path from “anxious conscience” to an embrace of self-assurance.