From Debussy who called him "a benevolent god", to Brahms who advocated studying Bach "to find everything". From Mahler who said that "in Bach the vital cells of music are united as the world is ...

Here, Lindsay Kemp reflects that perhaps he is the nearest thing we have to a god of music. Yet Bach was a man, and a man of his time too: recognising this does not reduce his genius but magnifies ...

A heartfelt performance from American countertenor with the Bach Akademie Australia with contrasting spiritual works by Bach ...

Indeed Bach wrote in his personal Bible ‘Where there is devotional music, God with His grace is always present’. For me his St John Passion is the most profound, sublime and moving composition ...

Solodovnikova-Adams expressed her hope that the performance would inspire a new generation of classical music lovers and musicians. "Bach is the god of music," she said. "He's the father of ...

Laser beams with classical music? Mexican baroque? All this and more will be featured in Musica Angelica’s Bach Fest this ...

is a homophone to bacchanalia, synonymous with carousing rites and drunken revelry of Roman god Bacchus ... towards the end, Bach was “in a kind of mode of assembling his music into larger ...