The St John Passion and St Matthew Passion are two of Bach's most famous pieces of sacred music, telling the Biblical story of Jesus' crucifixion. But where do you start with these two mammoth works?

Playing on a modern Steinway, the Italian pianist invests Bach’s keyboard works with vitality and a memorable soft-edged inwardness Last year, the young Italian pianist Federico Colli made waves with ...

Eight women played an important role in the life of composer JS Bach and in his family's musical tradition. An exhibition in the Berlin Cathedral shows how the role of women evolved in Bach's time and ...

My son Sam, as some of you know, is an accomplished pianist and composer here in DC. [his website's here] He and Ralitza Patcheva, a close friend and colleague (and masterful Bach interpreter), have ...

Gramophone has just issued a special publication drawing together some of the most significant articles from our archives exploring the music of JS Bach. Across 100 pages of beautifully-presented ...

This handsomely presented recording has a particular claim on our attention. The St Matthew Passion that Bach first performed on Good Friday 1727 was different in a few major respects, and many small ...

Jonathan Freeman-Attwood joins the Gramophone Podcast to discuss Baroque music's greatest composer This week's podcast is devoted to exploring the music, life and legacy of the greatest genius of ...

In 1705, JS Bach walked 250 miles from Arnstadt to Lübeck in search of inspiration. Follow in his footsteps now and there are mountains, beech woods and curious relics of the cold war to discover ...

He was the ultimate musical brain, the untouchable god with unimaginably lofty preoccupations. Or was he? Rev Richard Coles explores a different Bach, with some unexpected twists. Show more Long ...

According to Kristian Bezuidenhout, “The Sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014-1019 are some of the composer’s most elusive and puzzling works… this is music that poses tantalising ...

Korean pianist Sonya Bach has a name that might be either to die for or to dread when it comes to playing Bach. Her recordings of six of the composer’s keyboard concertos (BWV1052-6 and BWV1058) plus ...

Johann Sebastian Bach was busy with family and work obligations, so he hardly had the opportunity to travel. Italy came to him in the form of music, and he adopted the style from the south in his ...