Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor is one of the most famous pieces of Baroque organ music ever written - with a particularly iconic opening Bach probably composed the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, ...

In the last decade of his life, from 1740 to 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach abandoned the furious pace of composition he had maintained for over 30 years and concentrated his creative energies largely on ...

The pairing of Bach’s unfinished composition with Webern’s spare pieces for string quartet works well, although background noise takes the shine off The three works for string quartet by Anton Webern ...

Many folks would call Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor the ultimate piece of scary music, thanks to any number of horror movies and pop culture moments that have used its thundering organ sounds as ...

In The Art of Fugue, “Bach plays to God and himself in an empty church”, the critic and composer Wilfrid Mellers memorably wrote. The sequence of 20 fugues and canons, grouped according to the ...

James Kennerley’s “Bach Birthday Bash” Wednesday evening at Merrill Auditorium was actually a day shy of the 334th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach’s birth. But for anyone inclined to quibble, by ...

Once the flashiest organist of his generation, a controversial ‘60s classical musician whose Bach rocked and who turned Couperin into psychedelic pop song, Anthony Newman appeared the model of a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to all the moods from the grand master of Western classical music: consoling, rousing, peaceful, passionate. In the past we’ve chosen the five ...

Concerto in D Major, BWV 972; Allegro; Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major, BWV 1066; Bouree I / II; Fugue No. 5 in D Major, BWV 850, from "The Well-Tempered Clavier"; Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, ...

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 ...

In the last decade of his life, from 1740 to 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach abandoned the furious pace of composition he had maintained for over 30 years and concentrated his creative energies largely on ...