Johann Sebastian Bach

On WCRB In Concert, Rinaldo Alessandrini leads the Handel and Hayden Society and featured soloists in a hopeful program including Bononcini's Stabat Mater and Bach’s Easter Oratorio.

On The Bach Hour, the composer's Cantata No. 19, for St. Michael and All Angels, expresses a terrifying, visceral quality of battle, and a hope for protection and safety.

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 late, legendary pianist brings years of personal and artistic insight to an arrangement of one of Bach's most emotionally challenging works.

Just like the rest of us, composers have always tried to find moments of peace, and they even wrote it into some of their music.

The mandolin virtuoso talks with host Brian McCreath about the rich musical environment of his childhood, what led him to the mandolin, and the role Bach's music plays in his artistic life.

On The Bach Hour, destruction on a Biblical scale is the foundation of music that grapples with mysteries and uncertainties as relevant today as in the composer's time.

On The Bach Hour, organist Balint Karosi joins host Brian McCreath with rich context for his performance of the composer's magisterial collection called Clavierübung, Part III.

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.