The Mad River Chorale is bucking local holiday tradition this year, eschewing Handel for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, performing Part I of his Christmas Oratorio — in English!

GREAT BARRINGTON — Christine Gevert knows that in 2024, one might hesitate before going to a concert of baroque Christmas music. “There are so many stereotypes that you might have about, ‘I don’t like ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion,” which had its premiere on Good Friday 1724, doesn’t so much begin as erupt. In the swirling, agitated strings and piercing cries of oboes, we ...

With the oratorio, Johann Sebastian Bach hopes that he will finally become court composer in Dresden. And, as always, he demands that all members of the family join forces to help him.

Johann Sebastian Bach (born March 31, 1685; died July 28, 1750) has been called 'the supreme arbiter and law-giver of music'. He is to music what Leonardo da Vinci is to art and Shakespeare is to ...

This program includes Johann Sebastian Bach's“Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen“ (Let honor be sung to you, O God), the fifth cantata of his Christmas Oratorio.

Bach Akademie Australia brings to life Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, a Baroque masterpiece that beautifully captures the joy, wonder, and mystery of the Nativity. These special performances ...

The founder and artistic director of Bach Collegium San Diego, who is also one of four candidates this season for Philharmonia’s vacant music director position, turned to two of Johann Sebastian ...