Bach’s Magnificat is the most concise of his major choral works but contains some of the composer’s most profound religious expression, from the intimate to the fervent.Conducting from a seated ...

As Handel once remarked when congratulated on the success of a “Messiah” performance: “I should be sorry if I only entertained them – I wish to make them better.” The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, in its ...

For his first Christmas in Leipzig, in 1723, Bach delivered an extraordinary feast of music. This is the first recording that John Eliot Gardiner has made of the Magnificat in its original version in ...