Johann Sebastian Bach News

A Russian composer the Moscow News described as "a forceful, mature personality with a phenomenal technique and ability of playing with emotional depth" will perform Sunday at Grace Episcopal Cathedral.

What happens when a bluegrass banjo player makes a documentary film about a legendary 18th century composer? The result with Michael Lawrence is Bach and Friends , due for DVD release early in 2010.

If you are new to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, as I am, may I humbly suggest you start with his Magnificat in D Minor, as performed by The Bach Choir of Bethlehem on their new CD.

Torbin Harding producer, Lo-Z Records What's on Harding's iPod : 1. Johann Sebastian Bach's 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' Books One & Two Complete , performed by pianist Joao Carlos Martins 2. ' Simplicity ,' by Sizzla 3. ' Hotness ,' by Yami Bolo & Capleton 4. ' Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune, L86 ,' by Claude Debussy 5. First Quartet, Opus 7 , ...

It seems somewhat perverse that Sonata Form, which only began to crumble around the 1930s, had been so long in arriving that Johann Sebastian Bach thought it not worth bothering with.

Felix Mendelssohn gets credit for a fair number of things: He was one of the folks who more or less resurrected the music of Johann Sebastian Bach from the dustbin of history, but he also wrote a goodly number of piano scores and created the incidental music for Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - including the famous "Wedding March," ...

13 2:42 Alessandro Stradella: Aria: Pieta 2:50 Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata No.

Floyd Dryden Middle School orchestra and choir students performed a Native chant while entering the gym, but their Tuesday night performance ranged from Johann Sebastian Bach, to a Slavic folk song, to a spiritual, said orchestra and sixth-grade choir teacher Missouri Smyph.

The University of Florida is bringing Johann Sebastian Bach back to life with the help of its College of Fine Arts.

A MARATHON will take place on the UC Berkeley campus this weekend, and while it may not be of the strictly athletic variety, it nonetheless will be a test of endurance and excellence that will take some prowess and panache to pull off.

Ohioan Jason Vieaux has earned a devoted following at home and abroad, playing more than 100 engagements over the last two seasons including performances from Brazil to Poland.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio . Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our continuing series [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] on ancient pipe organs with modern cameras focusing inside the works, here is our old friend John Scott Whiteley performing Johann Sebastian Bach 's Allein Gott in der Hoh' sei Ehr' , BWV 664 , from ...

Published: Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 16, 2009 at 11:36 a.m. For years, Key Chorale artistic director Joseph Caulkins has filled boxes with pieces of music he thought would be interesting to perform.

Organist Scott Horton will perform a 'Bachtober' concert, featuring the organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach at 3 p.m. Sunday in the sanctuary of the First Congregational Church, 220 West Tulare Ave., Tulare.

Submitted by Jane B McWilliams on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 5:15pm. You are invited to a Benefit Concert for Way Park this Saturday, Oct.

To "meld with the music, to play to serve the music; not for the glory, and not for the judges." That is the philosophy of this year's gold winner for the Chinese International Piano Competition, Xiaofeng Wu.

And it does. The new release by Sony presents Bach's influential works in a recording that transcends the sound of classical piano.

JOHANN Sebastian Bach's choral piece St Matthew Passion plumbs the depths of despair, betrayal and, ultimately, death.

Johann Sebastian Bach, at the organ circa 1725, wrote more than 1,000 pieces, including "St. Matthew Passion" and the "Brandenburg Concertos." Getty Images View Enlarged Image The world's appreciation of Johann Sebastian Bach's greatness owes itself to a chance event.

Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903 by Johann Sebastian Bach; Five Preludes by Alexander Scriabin; Sonata in E Major, Op.