This is one of only six motets in Bach's catalog of 1,128 compositions. J.S. Bach remains among the most prolific and influential composers of sacred music. For all his influence, however, Bach too ...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner could easily divide his professional career into "before BCP" and after "BCP." At the close of the 20th Century, Gardiner began the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage with the bulk of the ...

Notoriously difficult music and a monument to Bach's genius. On November 13-16, led by Artistic Director Patrick Dupre Quigley, Seraphic Fire and their period orchestra will perform Bach's six motets; ...

The Bach family was one of the most musically active dynasties of the 17th and 18th centuries, with many musicians and composers around the courts and churches of what is now Germany. Johann Sebastian ...

Yet another new recording of Bach's Motets. For years, these pieces, perhaps with the exception of Jesu, Meine Freude, were much less well known than Bach's passions, Mass In B Minor, and the major ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Having spent most of his career focusing on the large sacred and instrumental works, Gardiner now tells us that ...

Most of these wonderful motets have funerary associations, but they are certainly not depressing to listen to. The longest and best-known is the beautifully symmetrical ‘Jesu, meine Freude’, BWV227, ...

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The programming and the choral singing were perfection, Suzuki's handling of the St Giles organ more ambiguous: it's always hard to tell on that instrument what's intended as rubato and what's ...

(6) Motets, Movements: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV225 Marcus Creed, Conductor Berlin Vocal Consort Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer (6) Motets, Movements: Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit ...

So fast has the early music movement grown that it is difficult to believe that it's 30 years since Philippe Herreweghe's fresh-voiced choir first recorded the Bach motets. They now revisit these ...

Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist Trinity Baroque Julian Podger, Conductor Martin Luther, Composer (6) Motets, Movements: Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV226 Trinity Baroque Julian Podger ...