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 ...

JS Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 Simon Heighes chooses his favourite recording of JS Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra and Richard Tognetti present an unmissable album of Bach concertos. Bach is food for the soul, and this collection of four concertos explores the warmth, intimacy and ...

At the Aspen Music Festival, violinist Joshua Bell joins the International Sejong Soloists for a performance of J.S. Bach's (1685-1750) Violin Concerto in A minor (BWV 1041).

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 ...

Music for unaccompanied violin reminds me of the “challenging” category on the sushi menu. It’s not for everybody. There’s a certain stark nakedness about it. Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili ...

Nothing Bach wrote is famous as Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, but he churned out so many masterpieces that there’s barely time to put them on your bucket list. In this showcase of the mid 18th century you ...

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 ...

Janine Jansen’ s Bach concertos collection, for which the Dutch violist is joined by friends and family (father Jan on harpsichord and brother Maarten on cello), is more idiosyncratic than you might ...