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 ...

In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...

On Thursday and Friday evening at Baker-Baum Concert Hall, the La Jolla Music Society presented violinist Midori in the six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Music for unaccompanied violin reminds me of the “challenging” category on the sushi menu. It’s not for everybody. There’s a certain stark nakedness about it. Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili ...

Hahn’s idea to record Bach violin obbligatos with singers and orchestra recruits the best in bass Goerne, soprano Schäfer and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. She binds the vocalists with silk ribbons of ...

Why is Bach's violin music so beautiful? Superstar violinist Ray Chen has spent time in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic recording a new album of Bach's music. He talks about the Bach that ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – For Alan Choo, “Violin Fantasy” is a dream come true. Not only, in the next Apollo’s Fire program, does the rotating concertmaster get to play many of his favorites with a close-knit ...