J.S. Bach’s motets are to the Bethlehem Bach Festival what MTV Unplugged is to rock’n’roll. You really get to hear the music. The motets sung by the 115-member Bach Choir of Bethlehem were accompanied ...

The New York Virtuoso Singers, led by Conductor and Artistic Director Harold Rosenbaum, will open their 2025–2026 Manhattan concert season with an extraordinary performance of The Six Bach Motets on ...

Yet another new recording of Bach's Motets. For years, these pieces, perhaps with the exception of Jesu, Meine Freude, were much less well known than Bach's passions, Mass In B Minor, and the major ...

The name Johann Sebastian Bach towers over classical music like a titan. If there were a Mount Rushmore of classical composers, there’s no way his jowly visage and concerned countenance wouldn’t be a ...

As New College director of music Edward Higginbottom says in his sleeve notes: “The motets of J.S. Bach are small in number and confined in scope”. Confined in scope because they are all cast in ...

The programming and the choral singing were perfection, Suzuki's handling of the St Giles organ more ambiguous: it's always hard to tell on that instrument what's intended as rubato and what's ...

So fast has the early music movement grown that it is difficult to believe that it's 30 years since Philippe Herreweghe's fresh-voiced choir first recorded the Bach motets. They now revisit these ...

The bulk of Bach’s choral writing lies in his 200-plus oratorios, the very works that the American Bach Soloists were founded to champion decades ago. But some of the master’s most concentrated doses ...

CONCORA, Connecticut Choral Artists, will present the six motets of J.S. Bach in two performances: March 11 at 5 p.m. at the First Lutheran Church of the Reformation, Franklin Square, and March 12 at ...

The Seattle Pro Musica has long had a reputation for innovative programming that stretches across a good share of the globe. This weekend the esteemed choral group, led by Karen P. Thomas at St. James ...

Motets are choral pieces set to sacred texts, although examples do exist of motets for accompanied solo voices. Although Bach may have composed more motets than the ones which are extant, the overall ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Having spent most of his career focusing on the large sacred and instrumental works, Gardiner now tells us that ...