Johann Sebastian Bach

Bach's Life and Work

Stories about Bach, and the music he created.

• Live Broadcast: National Lutheran Choir performs Bach's Mass in B Minor
  Tune in on Thursday, March 21 at 7 p.m. to hear the National Lutheran Choir perform Bach's Mass in B Minor live from Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.March 21, 2013
• Regional Spotlight: South Dakota Chorale
  Bach requires much from his singers in his handful of motets. The South Dakota Chorale led by Brian Schmidt is a first rate ensemble that is more than up to the challenge.March 14, 2013
• Regional Spotlight - Yulianna Avdeeva
  In this week's Regional Spotlight, Yulianna Avdeeva performs the Overture from the Partita in b minor by J.S. Bach from a Frederic Chopin Society recital this past May.August 16, 2012
• Bach Playlist: The Brandenburgs
  Bach wrote his six Brandenburg Concertos for the Margrave of Brandenburg, Christian Ludwig, possibly hoping to secure employment in the margrave's court. Lacking the necessary virtuosic players, the margrave never heard the concertos, and the manuscripts weren't published until 1850, one-hundred years after Bach's death.June 16, 2012
• St. John Passion by J.S. Bach, as performed by the Bach Society of Minnesota
  The Bach Society of Minnesota presented a performance of the St. John Passion, BWV 245, on March 24th, 2012 at St. Mary's Chapel at St. Paul Seminary. You can hear the St. John Passion in its entirety on Friday, April 6th, at 10 a.m.April 5, 2012
• Harp, Not Harpsichord, in Bach's Sonatas
  A new Bach disc combines violin with an instrument that Bach himself rarely used -- the harp. Its gradations of loud and soft add a new dimension to the performance of these pieces.April 3, 2012
• Bach: Placing Timeless Music in Time - Part 2 of an Essay by Bill Morelock
  For the anniversary of Bach's birth, even as we marvel at the unearthly nature of the music, we might stop and remember that Bach also had to earn a living. Here's how and where he earned a paycheck during the 45 years of his working life.March 20, 2012
• Bach: Placing Timeless Music in Time - Part 1 of an Essay by Bill Morelock
  For the anniversary of Bach's birth, even as we marvel at the unearthly nature of the music, we might stop and remember that Bach also had to earn a living. Here's how and where he earned a paycheck during the 45 years of his working life.March 19, 2012
• "Before Bach's Birthday" Bash
  Plan ahead to participate in the "Before Bach's Birthday" Bash on March 17, 2012, a sequence of five hour-long all-Bach performance events at four Minneapolis churches, featuring organists, pianists, singers and other instrumentalists in advance celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach's 327th Birthday (which comes on Wednesday, March 21)March 17, 2012
• Regional Spotlight: Bach and Jazz
  Paul Boehnke, the music director of the Bach Society of Minnesota, has an adventurous palate. "Take a sweet piece of fruit on one hand and it's sweet. Take a pungent cheese on the other and it's pungent. If you put the two together you get something brand new!" The Bach Society was joined by a team of well-known jazz musicians from the twin cities in a session at the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio to reprise a program titled: Bach and Jazz. Their sweet/pungent performances are in this week's Regional Spotlight.February 23, 2012

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