Detailed survey of Vivaldi's unjustly neglected chamber cantatas, showing them to stand comparison with his more famous works. Vivaldi's chamber cantatas for solo voice, some forty in total, are ...

Bach Collegium Japan's deservedly acclaimed project to record all of Bach's cantatas has reached volume 51, which turns out to be an especially vibrant and generously filled collection of sacred ...

In his cantatas and church works, Bach frequently employs lively dance rhythms to express the most exuberant forms of worship. In the conclusion to his cantata “Praise the Lord, My Soul” (BWV ...

A spectacular New York show traces an exquisite 14th-century flowering cut short by the Black Death ...

Heterophonic textures can be heard in Baroque cantatas or oratorios, where an instrumentalist or vocalist plays a slightly more decorated version of a melody line over the original. Here is an ...

Present Music's Concert for Peace and First Stage's 'Rudolph' musical are among performing arts highlights of the holiday ...

Bryden performed the role of Angelica in Peter Sellar's production of Handel's Orlando and is a founding member of Boston's Emmanuel Music, with whom she has given more than 100 performances of Bach ...

The novel’s protagonist, Florian Herscht, writes and rewrites a letter to Angela Merkel about what he believes to be an ...

Max Emanuel Cenčić, the Festival Director who won the Oper! Award 2024, has once again brought together virtuosos of the lyric art. Sandrine Piau invites us to savour the frivolity of 18th-century ...

Matthew Passion, Freemasonry and members of the Bach family, and Bach's copy of the Calov Bible Commentary. Ms. Greer was the inaugural Christopher Hogwood Research Fellow at the Handel and Haydn ...

CONCORA will perform Bach’s cantatas "Gott ist mein König" ("God is My King"); "Preise, Jerusalem, den Herrn" ("Praise Jerusalem the Lord"); and "Gott, man lobet dich in der Stillein ...

A stellar line-up of live music events will keep Scotland’s capital entertained throughout New Year festivities with ...