This vivid work, which had its premiere on Good Friday 1724, brings an experimental spirit to its arresting musical ...

The welcome recipients are school choir boys and girls who’ve just emerged from Leipzig’s St Thomas ... the church, between bites of cake. “You can do anything you like to Bach’s music ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is a true classical music heavyweight. His seminal oeuvre comprises over 1,000 compositions, most of which date back to his time as Kapellmeister at St. Thomas's Church in ...

In 1949, Bach’s purported skeleton was exhumed and later reburied in St. Thomas Church in downtown Leipzig (where the ...

The Passion story—the events leading up to the death of Jesus, as recounted in the four gospels of the New Testament—is ...

Leipzig, December 1734: Christmas brings the Bach family together ... a few years earlier, the St. Thomas Church will once again be filled with "operatic" music. With the oratorio, Johann ...

Today in Music History for April 15: ...

The acclaimed Portsmouth Baroque Choir and Consort of Twelve directed by Malcolm Keeler return to Fareham United Reformed ...