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"Bach lifts my spirits, even if I'm having a bad day."Beginning March 21, J.S. Bach's birthday, WQXR is bringing you the complete works of Bach. Bach 360º festival is 10 days of non-stop Bach and we...
View ArticleWQXR to Present 'Bach 360' Festival
Get ready to Bach around the clock.WQXR will be presenting over 200 hours of the music of J.S. Bach, from March 21 (the composer's birthday) through March 31 (Easter Sunday).The festival will last 10...
View ArticleBach To Normal
Everyone has a story to tell about Bach. Here’s mine.Bach brought me back after 9/11. It was Sunday, September 23, 2001, just 12 days after the terrorist attacks brought down the World Trade Center,...
View ArticleInspired by Bach
The majestic music of Johann Sebastian Bach has enhanced many film scores. The Disney Studio put their powerful spin on Bach's D-minor Toccata and Fugue by combining it with dramatic cartoon imagery in...
View ArticleA Bach Family Reunion
In advance of WQXR's Bach 360 festival, The Choral Mix features music from the Bach Family. There’s C.P.E., Johann Nicolaus, Johann Christoph, Johan Ludwig and the master himself, Johann Sebastian....
View ArticleThe J.S. Bach Café
In Johann Sebastian Bach's day, Zimmermann's Coffee House in Leipzig was the place to hear new music by some of Europe's top composers. Coffee drinking was all the rage and Zimmermann's was an informal...
View ArticleBach Yoga
J.S. Bach's masterful fugues, chorales and counterpoint can provide the perfect accompaniment to that next lotus, warrior or upward facing dog pose.Our programming team has partnered with a licensed...
View ArticleBach in the Subways Day Returns For Third Year
Subway commuters, get ready to Bach 'n' roll.For the third year in a row, the cellist Dale Henderson has organized Bach in the Subways Day as a way to celebrate Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday — and...
View ArticleDoes Bach Need 'Rescuing' from Period Instruments?
In recent months, symphony orchestras have returned to the music of J.S. Bach with a vengeance.The New York Philharmonic is in the midst of a month-long Bach festival with the expressed goal of...
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Bach 360°: The Many Forms of Bach
Free Download: Pablo Casals plays the Cello Suite No. 1Much of Johann Sebastian Bach’s mystique arises from his lack of one.In a world where composer are often thought to be touched by angels, Bach was...
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We Got Your Bach: Bach 360's Generator of Bach Puns
Is it getting Bach in here or is it just me? Yes, we're bringing sexy Bach. Are you ready to Bach around the clock?From the very first mention of the Bach 360 festival, we haven't been able to help...
View ArticleTop Five Deployments of the B-A-C-H Motif
It’s no secret that Johann Sebastian Bach hid a musical cryptogram in many of his works. Spelling out his name in B-flat, A, C, and B-natural (which is an H in German conventions), the composer left...
View ArticleLive Broadcast: The Bach Lounge
On Saturday, March 23 at 7 pm, experience the music of Johann Sebastian Bach reimagined in a two-part evening featuring cross-genre interpretations of the master's work.This event will be broadcast on...
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Bach 360°: Being Bach
Free Download: Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and FugueJohann Sebastian Bach has suffered from the somewhat humorless and dour image presented by some of his portraits. Unlike Mozart or Beethoven, he’s...
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Bach 360°: The Well-Tempered Clavier
Free Download: Glenn Gould Plays the Prelude No. 1 from the Well-Tempered Clavier IDownload (Facebook) • About this downloadIn 1953, the Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter was enlisted to play at...
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Bach 360°: The Cantatas
Free Download: Lorraine Hunt Leiberson sings 'Mein Herze Schwimmt im Blut'Download (Facebook) • About the recordingThe Bach Cantata series on the Soli Deo Gloria label is a high point of recording...
View ArticleBach 360°: The Man About Leipzig
Free Download: Jennifer Koh Plays the Sarabande from the Partita No. 2Download (Facebook) • About this RecordingIn the New York real estate market, buyers and renters worry about space, light and...
View Article20 Celebrities Who Pick Bach in Their All-Time Top 4
Don't believe us when we say that Bach is still an influential figure? Well, at least he still was in the '80s — the 1980s, that is. WQXR's This is My Music, hosted by Lloyd Moss, featured at least 20...
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Bach 360°: Dance in the Music of Bach
Free Download: David Fray Plays the Sarabande from the Partita No. 2Download (Facebook) • About this RecordingLast Tuesday night, the New York Philharmonic’s principal cellist, Carter Brey, had just...
View ArticleCafé Concert: Isabelle Faust
VIDEO: Isabelle Faust Plays Bach's Partita No. 3 in C MajorIn an age when crossover-slanted, heavily promoted violin babes are a staple of record industry marketing, Isabelle Faust’s career seems cut...
View ArticleBach and Forth
For a special Bach 360 edition of the Young Artists Showcase, host Bob Sherman presents some interesting performances on instruments and in arrangements that Johann Sebastian wouldn’t have imagined.The...
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Bach 360°: Cross-Genre Reinventions
Free Download: Simone Dinnerstein plays Bach's Prelude in G minorDownload (Facebook) • About this albumFor years everybody's shortlist of imaginative takes on the music of Bach began and ended with...
View ArticleVideo: Organist Paul Jacobs Makes a 'Glorious Racket' in Bach
All musical instruments are wonders. They thrill us in their function and are often admirable for their beauty as well. But there’s probably only one instrument that can also elicit a sense of...
View ArticleFive Great Bach Guitar Shredding Videos
In bedrooms and living rooms around the world there are amateur rock guitarists who cut their teeth on classical music. Bach's music stands as a favorite for young guitar nerds. With his endless...
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Bach 360°: How Bach Scored with the Keyboard
Free Download: Harpsichordist Richard Egarr Plays the English Suite No. 2, GigueDownload (Facebook*) • About this RecordingBeyond religion, beyond duty, beyond fashion lies J.S. Bach’s music for...
View ArticleBach 360°: The Passions, Ravishing and Disputed
FREE Download: Bach’s St. John Passion ("Betrachte, mein Seel") by the Portland Baroque OrchestraDownload (Facebook*) • About this downloadJ.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion has always gotten more respect...
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Bach 360°: What Type of Singers Did Bach Prefer?
FREE Download: Hopkinson Smith Plays the Bach Suite No. 1 in G Major BWV 1007, PreludeDownload (Facebook*) • About this recordingAs a boy, Bach was said to have a lovely soprano voice and got plenty of...
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Bach 360°: Chorales, Cantatas and an Oratorio for Easter
FREE Download: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra plays the Concerto for Three Violins BWV 1064R - AllegroDownload (Facebook*) • About this albumTwo things are certain about the classical music calendar:...
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