50 of the finest JS Bach recordings available – complete with the original Gramophone reviews – featuring Glenn Gould, Angela Hewitt, Isabelle Faust, Murray Perahia and more Thanks for exploring the ...

If Mozart and Beethoven are the Son and the Holy Ghost of classical music’s Holy Trinity, it is surely Johann Sebastian Bach who is the Father. Renowned for his harmonic invention (“Harmony is next to ...

There’s something special about the sheer purity of Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Prelude In C Major ... Charles Gounod wrote a song over the top – his ‘Ave Maria’ – but the prelude ...

You’d better believe it, because Johann Sebastian ... canon, Bach writes a ‘quodlibet’ – a tradition in which a group of participants improvise by singing several popular songs simultaneously.

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German musician and composer who wrote throughout the 18th Century. For most of his career, Bach worked as an organist and choirmaster at various churches throughout ...