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Steve Sherman/courtesy of the ensembleOn The Bach Hour, Masaaki Suzuki leads Bach Collegium Japan in the cantata that includes "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," and Lucas and Arthur Jussen are the soloists in an exuberant work for two pianos. -
Marco Borggreve/On The Bach Hour, the Chopin Competition winner reveals passion, drama, and crystalline spark in a solo piano work, and Rudolf Lutz conducts the Cantata No. 30.
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On The Bach Hour, when a king throws a vexing musical challenge at the composer, it sparks a dazzling response in "The Musical Offering," and an equally dazzling interpretation by Jordi Savall and The Concert of Nations. -
On The Bach Hour, the vast sonic landscape of Gustav Mahler's musical language transforms selections from Bach's Orchestral Suites in a performance by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and conductor Riccardo Chailly.
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On The Bach Hour, the composer's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 takes on new dimensions as part of the Cantata 52, and horn soloist Radek Baborák brings the instrument's dynamism to a concerto originally for harpsichord.
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The mandolin virtuoso and MacArthur grant recipient reveals a deep history with Bach's music through conversation and performance on The Bach Hour.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In a performance at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, pianist Ramin Bahrami is the soloist in Bach's emotionally probing D minor concerto, and John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Cantata No. 45.
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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.
