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.

In one of Bach's better known cantatas, No. 140, Wachet auf — "Wake up!" — Hahn introduces a duet with soprano Christine Schafer as the eager bride and baritone Matthias Goerne as Jesus, the soul's ...

When Capital City Concerts offered one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantatas — the Magnificat — last fall to soothe the politics-weary, audiences packed both St. Augustine’s Catholic Church in ...

There is perhaps no greater Advent hymn than this. And, the tune was not only set to a hymn but was the basis for what is one of J.S. Bach's greatest organ chorale's as well as one of his finest ...

Nothing if not unpredictable, Nikolaus Harnoncourt follows his controversial reading of Porgy and Bess with three Bach cantatas, as his 80th birthday celebrations bring us full circle to a definable ...

There is something touchingly old-fashioned about this attractive collection of Bach arias that feature the violin, and it has clearly been a labour of love for young violinist Hilary Hahn to draw ...