Bach's concertos - they're essential listening. The Brandenburg Concertos, the keyboard concertos… they're all great, but what is it about the Violin Concerto in A minor that keeps people coming back ...

It’s not all about the Brandenburg Concertos – but it’s a good place to start! Discover the magic behind Bach’s fantastic Baroque orchestral music. Of Bach’s mammoth output of more than 1100 ...

One of the pleasures of the summer was the late nights spent at the BBC Proms in the company of Alina Ibragimova playing Bach. On this disc she plays not solo Bach (she has already recorded much of ...

Concerto for Violin and Strings James Ehnes, Violin National Arts Center Orchestra of Canada Concerto for Flute, Violin, Harpsichord and Strings James Ehnes, Violin Joanna G'froerer, Flute Luc ...

Tremendous new releases from Kati Debretzeni and Leonidas Kavakos, plus 50 years of the Met on BBC Four Violinists who specialise in baroque music don’t tend to get the same limelight as those playing ...

Concerto for Violin and Strings Isabelle Faust, Violin Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Cantata No. 174, 'Ich liebe den Höchsten von gan Isabelle Faust, Violin Johann ...

This latest fine release from one of Scotland’s early music consorts features the ensemble’s Dutch-Italian leader Cecilia Bernardini in violin concertos by JS Bach. There are so many things to marvel ...

Isabell Faust takes a tour of Bach's violin concertos, interspersed with alternate versions of sinfonias and sonatas that have been reconstructed for the first time. This is the next instalment in a ...

Colleen Lee and the New Hong Kong Philharmonia played variations of violin and oboe concertos in an energetic and elegant presentation In the opinion of many, J.S. Bach is the greatest composer bar ...

Bach frequently recycled his own music, and Ottavio Dantone believes the arrangements are so satisfactory because his works "are so structurally and conceptually perfect that they transcend the ...

Janine Jansen’ s Bach concertos collection, for which the Dutch violist is joined by friends and family (father Jan on harpsichord and brother Maarten on cello), is more idiosyncratic than you might ...

Podger is one of the most creative violinists in the field, constantly pushing the boundaries of baroque performance practice and propagating her findings through her teaching and the festival she ...