Bach’s surviving Easter cantatas, which date from 1707 to the late 1720s, provide the perfect point of entry for anyone unfamiliar with the composer’s works for the church year. Top marks to Challenge ...

De twee nieuwe muziekstukken van Johann Sebastian Bach die gisteren in Leipzig zijn gepresenteerd, vormen een welkome aanvulling op het orgelrepertoire. Organist, klavecinist, dirigent en Bach-kenner ...

What: Ton Koopman conducts works by Bach. When: 8 p.m. Nov. 19 and 20. Where:: Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Tickets:: $40-$136. Go to ...

The modern symphony orchestra is a product of the 19th century, and there's always some adjustment required when it turns to music from an earlier period. Wednesday's uneven concert by the San ...

Ton Koopman’s zest for the baroque master shone through in a joyful programme of some of his best-known music, even if the lack of instrumental balance would have triggered the symmetry-loving ...

and 18 years since his last, Dutch keyboardist and conductor returned over the weekend for a spirited reunion. A leading figure in the early-music revival of a generation ago, he was the fledgling ...

Any notion that Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of Fugue was a set of arid, pedagogic exercises has long since lost currency. Even so, the excited whooping and stamping accorded Ton Koopman and his wife ...

This is not so much a cantata as a comic opera that tells of an addiction to coffee, which was a pressing social problem in 18th-century Leipzig where the work was premiered at Zimmerman’s Coffee ...

Keyboard fans, rejoice. The Beckerath is back. After falling into decline, the renowned organ at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cleveland has been fully restored, such that Baroque specialist Ton Koopman ...

The music of the Eighteenth century features delicate textures and refinement as well as expressiveness and energy This was the age of the smaller chamber orchestra and Bach was one of the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It is breakfast time at Bussum. The town, a leafy satellite of Amsterdam, has no obvious distinction other than being ...

It may be thirty years since ‘early music’ escaped from its ghetto, but we are still finding fresh worlds within it. Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot - who have consummated their pupil-teacher relationship ...