GREENWICH — The Battenkill Chorale, lead by Artistic Director Janet McGhee, concludes its 18th anniversary season with “Hallelujah!,” featuring Handel’s Messiah, Part 2, and Bach Cantata 140 “Wachet ...

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.

“Bach was cool, he was fly. His music was a lullaby,” writes Nitschmann Middle School student Kaitlyn Ojeda in “Bach’s Poem,” penned after she listened to Cantata 140, Wachet Auf!, one of Bach’s most ...

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 ...

Da Bach aber zahlreiche Kantaten geschrieben hat, die stark adventlichen Charakter haben, müssen wir auch am heutigen 2. Adventssonntag nicht auf eine Bachkantate verzichten. Eine Kantate, die sehr in ...

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 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 ...