J.S. Bach may have been light on concertos, but when he did compose them he made sure they were special. Here's where to start with his violin concertos. Concertos don't take up a huge amount of room ...

Terry Waite and musician Steve Hackett talk about the emotional impact of Bach's music for two violins. From July 2004. Show more So little is known about the life of JS Bach, yet his music opens up a ...

Bach frequently recycled his own music, and Ottavio Dantone believes the arrangements are so satisfactory because his works "are so structurally and conceptually perfect that they transcend the ...

Bach's concertos - they're essential listening. The Brandenburg Concertos, the keyboard concertos… they're all great, but what is it about the Violin Concerto in A minor that keeps people coming back ...

Bach on the violin is perhaps the only remaining enclave in the composer’s oeuvre where partisan views on equipment and style still concede to individual interpretation. Most recently we have seen how ...

Classical music meets Halloween and the paranormal Thursday night when the National Symphony Orchestra plays the Schumann Violin Concerto, a work buried for nearly a century and recovered — or so the ...

Recording a CD of some of your favourite music with colleagues and friends you have been playing with for half your life is a momentous occasion. I have played with the English Baroque Soloists since ...

Step into the timeless beauty of St Giles’ Cathedral, an architectural jewel in the heart of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile — the perfect candlelit setting for an unforgettable evening of Baroque brilliance.

Bach's Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV1043, affectionately known as the 'Double Concerto', is one of the most popular works of the Baroque repertoire. The two solo parts of this concerto have ...