On Thursday and Friday evening at Baker-Baum Concert Hall, the La Jolla Music Society presented violinist Midori in the six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach.

In one of Bach's better known cantatas, No. 140, Wachet auf — "Wake up!" — Hahn introduces a duet with soprano Christine Schafer as the eager bride and baritone Matthias Goerne as Jesus, the soul's ...

Why is Bach's violin music so beautiful? Superstar violinist Ray Chen has spent time in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic recording a new album of Bach's music. He talks about the Bach that ...

Rachel Barton Pine records Bach's solo violin partitas and sonatas at St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Chicago Violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s playing isn’t the only sound you hear on her new ...

In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...

Music for unaccompanied violin reminds me of the “challenging” category on the sushi menu. It’s not for everybody. There’s a certain stark nakedness about it. Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili ...

Baltimore native Hilary Hahn had a homecoming at Kennedy Center Oct. 26, as part of her international tour. (Dana van Leeuwen/Decca) Review by Simon Chin For violinist Hilary Hahn, Friday’s concert at ...

Janine Jansen’ s Bach concertos collection, for which the Dutch violist is joined by friends and family (father Jan on harpsichord and brother Maarten on cello), is more idiosyncratic than you might ...

Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas not only inspire choirs worldwide, but also those who can't actually hear his music, as seen at the Leipzig Bach Festival. Eighty-eight people move on a large stage to ...