In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn ...

Each weekday morning during the 7 am hour, WQXR introduces a featured recording of music by J.S. Bach, which will be made available as a free podcast.

Three scintillating Bach discs arrive at once - a star arrival for a young German violinist, plus highly individual discs by French pianists. Bach: Violin Concertos Julia Fischer, violin; Academy of ...

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 ...

J.S. Bach's birthday is March 21. Today, Bach is easily one of the top three most revered composers (along with Beethoven and Mozart), but that wasn’t always the case. Eighty years after Bach died, ...

In 1749, at the end of his long, creative life, Johann Sebastian Bach assembled bits and pieces of music he’d written many years earlier, added a few new bits, and, voilà, there was his Mass in ...