“Ich habe genug,” Bach’s Cantata No. 82, is commonly rendered in English as “I am content.” At the cantata’s center is a lullaby of consoling sweetness, generosity of spirit and somnolent blessedness, ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, ...

Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542 "Great"; Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582; Prelude and Fugue in E flat major BWV 552 "St Anne"; Prelude and Fugue in e minor BWV 548 "Wedge"; Toccata, ...

Containing his Air on a G string, Bach composed four orchestral suites, including his most famous offering, the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068. Bach wrote a total of four orchestral suites, the ...

Isn't it obvious? Surely Bach's music has that solid sense of incontrovertible "rightness", with every note in its right and proper place, as if it had always been there and always will be. It seems ...

There is something about the music of Johann Sebastian Bach that puts it in a category of its own. Bach is the P.G. Wodehouse and the Shakespeare of the musical score rolled into one. He is the only ...