In many ways, Johann Sebastian Bach paved the way for the likes of fellow legendary composers Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. The latter even referred to Bach as ...

Bach’s Mass in B Minor begins with a majestic howl of pain—four adagio bars that combine formal grandeur with writhing interior lines, as if figures in a cathedral frieze of the Last Judgment were ...

Bach’s instrumental output encompasses a wide spectrum, but none as intimate as his six suites for solo cello, arguably among the most legendary works in the classical genre. These have inspired not ...