Nils Harald Sødal, musician and researcher at the University of Agder (UiA), has written a book about understanding and ...

That said, both Classic FM and the BBC’s Classical Music sister site both consider Bach to be at the top of the classical ...

The world of classical music has gotten a modern makeover. The Bach Society of Saint Louis has spent 85 years celebrating the work of Johann Sebastian Bach and other classical composers through ...

As the floor feels solid and sturdy and eternal, so feel I feel about the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach wrote his 6 Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in 1720. They feel as eternal as the ...

As the floor feels solid and sturdy and eternal, so feel I feel about the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach wrote his 6 Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in 1720. They feel as eternal as the ...

Bach’s Mass in B minor does not usher you in gently. The orchestra and full chorus leap in together on the first note, gravely and emphatically asking for mercy. Kyrie, kyrie, eleison, eleison. I am ...

In his first book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Elie wrote a group portrait of writers—Thomas Merton, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Day, Walker Percy—whose writings and lives could be connected by ...

Bach, Brahms and Webern lived in three different centuries, but their music has more similarities than it may seem. Listen to their works here for a limited time only. Violinist Daishin Kashimoto was ...

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, ...