Bach’s most complex organ work is a set of five Canonic Variations on the well-known Christmas hymn Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her (From Heaven Above to Earth I Come). He treated this melody many ...

Last year during the crux of pre-Christmas consumption, I ventured into the greatest musical basement east of the Village Vanguard: the classical CD section of Dussman’s Cultural Department Store in ...

PETER MASON is entertained by the autobiography of Charlie Harper, one of punk’s most enduring figures BACH’S most complex organ work is a set of five Canonic Variations on the well-known Christmas ...

Classical music is often described as “pure”, “timeless” and “intellectual”, three epithets guaranteed to make most music-lovers reach for the off button in panic. Fortunately they’re not true. If ...

When the seventh season of the Bach Choir’s Bach at Noon concert series resumes on Tuesday at Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem, it will be with a bit of Christmas spirit still in its heart. Thomas ...

Of the six sets of variations on Lutheran chorale melodies attributed to Bach, two are omitted from this disc. Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr' is now known to be partly or wholly by A. N. Vetter while ...

The Musical Times is the oldest continuously-published music journal in the world, founded in 1844. For more information, including an extensive archive of obituaries of leading musicians from ...

The organist Jonathan Vaughn plays JS Bach's Prelude in E flat, BWV522; Three Chorale Preludes on 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'; Canonic Variations on 'Von Himmel Hoch, da komm ich her', BWV769; ...

Sometimes you just shouldn’t push your luck too far. The recording of Uri Caine’s jazz take on the J.S. Bach “Goldberg” Variations is an entertainingly virtuosic display of the pianist-composer’s ...

Live at BBC Proms from The Royal Albert Hall: The Philharmonia Orchestra perform music by Johann Sebastian Bach arranged by Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel and John Adams, conducted by Esa‐Pekka Salonen.