The program features Bach’s Christmas Cantata, Mass in G-minor, and 16th-century motets.

SIMON: Peter Wollny directs the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany. And the quote-unquote new pieces are chaconnes - Baroque-era compositions with melodic variations atop repeated bass lines. Wollny has ...

Seventieth birthdays are big deals. When Leonard Bernstein marked the milestone in 1988, the Boston Symphony threw him a ...

A pair of chaconnes that were first discovered in the 1990s have now been linked to the Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach.

Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were unveiled in Germany on Monday in a discovery ...

The two new pieces were composed by Johann Sebastian Bach when he was still a teenager. They were first spotted over 30 years ...

Two previously unknown organ pieces by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were unveiled Monday in Leipzig and performed for the ...

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The Cantata Band grew out of conversations here and in Melbourne between three very fine musicians and, in this concert, ...

The award will be presented in February 2026 during a gala at the Theater Regensburg. The winners of the other 19 award categories – including best director, singers, orchestra, choir, world premiere ...