In 1993, when Robert von Bahr received a letter at his Stockholm office proposing that his company, BIS Records, undertake a complete cycle of all 200 Bach cantatas with someone named Masaaki Suzuki ...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner was joined by actor and comedian Alexander Armstrong to launch a fund-raising campaign to complete the multi-Award-winning Bach cantata project. The Ascension cantatas were ...

Artistic genius thrives on outrageous challenges. Soon after Johann Sebastian Bach became Kapellmeister at Leipzig in 1723, he set himself the task of providing a newly composed work—for instrumental ...

As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...

WORCESTER — The ambitious and much anticipated "The Complete Bach" project kicks off with the first-ever BACHtoberfestOct. 25 to 27 consisting of five performances. The project will see all of 18th ...

LONDON — Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s self-produced recording of Bach cantatas won record of the year honors Thursday at the annual Gramophone Awards. The recording, on Gardiner’s Soli Deo Gloria label, ...

Masaaki Suzuki has finally completed his project to record the complete church cantatas of JS Bach. But what has been driving this quiet Japanese musician to tackle one of the greatest achievements in ...

Around three quarters of Bach’s Leipzig cantatas have survived and can be grouped into three, more or less, complete cycles according to the pattern of the church year. On the evidence of these works ...

Thomas Quasthoff gets top billing, but the star of this disc is Dorothea Röschmann, who sings Bach's music with precision and tenderness. The repertoire includes three of Bach's dialogue cantatas, ...