Bach’s “The Art of Fugue” was one of the baroque master’s final works, one of his more complex, and also one of the more mysterious. Guest musicians Dana Robinson and Charlotte Mattax Moersch, organ ...
Colin MacKnight is getting "organized." Starting Wednesday, he's planning to perform the entire collected organ works of Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach this year, marking the 275th anniversary ...
Bach’s nine-minute-long composition is one of the best-known pieces for organ – but it also sounds super-eerie on glass harp. This musician – Robert Tiso on YouTube – has worked out how to play Bach’s ...
The dark, deep sound of a solo viola takes on the role of a pipe organ, in an immensely beautiful and striking performance. The dramatic opening flourishes of Bach’s D minor Toccata and Fugue are one ...
Two workmanlike pieces by the teenage Bach had their New York premiere at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Johann Sebastian Bach is undoubtedly the greatest composer for the “king of instruments,” the organ — think the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 — and it has been a tradition on Montpelier ...
Mechanics Hall in Worcester is home to the famed Hook Organ, also known as the Worcester Organ. And GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath sat down with Mechanics Hall principal organist Peter ...
JUST before this year’s Super Bowl, a Philadelphia Eagles devotee sat down at an organ and started to play. There were more melodies than the average fan may have been used to, but the instrument soon ...
Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, ...
The more than 200 solo organ works that bracket the prodigious composing career of Johann Sebastian Bach have long been every organist’s Bible. Rare is the organ recital that doesn’t include such ...