Johann Sebastian Bach

Kent Nagano leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides Overture, Mendelssohn's "Reformation" Symphony, and two premieres.

On WCRB In Concert with Music Worcester, pianist Jeremy Denk and cellist Zlatomir Fung explore Bach’s solo music for their respective instruments in honor of the great composer's birthday.

A performance at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition leads to a thriving concert career, and Philippe Herreweghe leads the Cantata No. 161 on The Bach Hour.

On WCRB In Concert with H+H, Jonathan Cohen leads a program of dazzling 17th and 18th-century dance music!

On The Bach Hour, the vast sonic landscape of Gustav Mahler's vision transforms selections from Bach's Orchestral Suites, with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and conductor Riccardo Chailly.

On The Bach Hour, Philippe Herreweghe leads a work that grapples with oppositional forces of light and dark, and pianist Igor Levit performs the composer's Partita No. 2.

On The Bach Hour, Petra Müllejans and Gottfried von der Goltz are the soloists in the composer's irresistible Concerto for Two Violins, and Ton Koopman conducts the Cantata No. 47.

The mandolin virtuoso talks with host Brian McCreath about the rich musical environment of his childhood, what led him to the mandolin, and the role Bach's music plays in his artistic life.

On The Bach Hour, the words of one of today's most eloquent pianists illuminate his performance of the composer's Partita No. 3, and Konrad Junghänel conducts the Missa Brevis in G minor.

On The Bach Hour, Rudolf Lutz conducts the composer's Cantata 168, in which fearsome metaphors from the natural world are answered by allusions to eternity.