Bach wrote a fair amount of music involving the flute. Later in the hour, we'll be in concert with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, who play Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, which features the flute ...

Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are masterpieces of orchestral colour, and these landmark recordings by the Orchestra of the Antipodes on period instruments bring out all the warmth and beauty of the ...

No one needs to be told why “The Messiah” or “The Nutcracker” have become Christmas perennials. There are, of course, further Christmas-themed works of glory galore. It’s time we dig out Bach’s joyous ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Glass, like Bach before him, ...

Composed in 1717, BWV 1043, otherwise known as the 'Bach Double' is one of the most famous of his works - and a fine example of a Baroque concerto. When Bach arrived in Leipzig in 1723, he inherited a ...

J.S. Bach may have been light on concertos, but when he did compose them he made sure they were special. Here's where to start with his violin concertos. Concertos don't take up a huge amount of room ...

WHEN film director Mike Leigh’s production of The Pirates Of Penzance was premiered in 2015, the slightly reverential approach lacked the anarchic quality of its librettist WS Gilbert. This time, ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are some of the most important Baroque compositions written. They are actually a collection of ideas that Bach composed over a ten year period while he ...