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Marc Sabbah on Bach for the viola
7th Jul 2026
The violist talks about his new album, featuring his own transcriptions of JS Bach's iconic six suites for solo cello, BWV 1007-1012.
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Bach's St John Passion from Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion
20th Mar 2026
Raphaël Pichon follows up his benchmark recording of the St Matthew Passion with a much-anticipated account of the St John - with the raw immediacy of the narrative tempered by moments of tenderness.
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JS Bach: Johannes-Passion
Julian Prégardien (Evangelist), Huw Montague Rendall (Jesus), Ying Fang (soprano), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Etienne Bazola (baritone), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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Martin James Bartlett on Bach, Mozart and Britten
12th Mar 2026
The British pianist discusses his new album of early concertos by Bach and Mozart plus Britten's Young Apollo, recorded in Salzburg with the Mozarteumorchester and Howard Griffiths.
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Renaud Capuçon celebrates his fiftieth birthday with Bach
23rd Jan 2026
The violinist marks a milestone with a classy album of Bach's sonatas and partitas, swapping awestruck veneration for simple personal enjoyment.
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J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
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Thibaut Garcia on adapting and performing Bach's Goldberg Variations with Antoine Morinière
24th Nov 2025
A unique new twist on Bach's Goldberg Variations sees these two guitarists rehearse, play - and even think - as one.
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John Butt on Bach's elusive St Mark Passion (and theatrical Handel)
4th Sep 2025
The conductor of the Dunedin Consort talks about his upcoming performance of an innovative hybrid reconstruction of Bach's fragmentary third Passion setting, and his recent recording of dramatic Handel cantatas featuring soprano Nardus Williams.
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Orchestral transcriptions of Bach's organ works by Andrew Davis
1st Aug 2025
The late conductor demonstrates his love of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach with a series of orchestral transcriptions of the composer’s organ works, the recording of which was completed by Martyn Brabbins after Davis’s death last year.
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James Ehnes on Bach
6th May 2025
The violinist discusses his new recording of a selection of Bach concertos with Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra - an organisation which 'played a pivotal part' in his early life through tours, radio broadcasts and competitions for young artists.
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Nevermind Ensemble on recasting Bach's Goldberg Variations
5th Mar 2025
The quartet talk about their new recording of the immortal Goldberg Variations, seamlessly adapted for flute, violin, gamba and continuo.
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A new Bach cantata project from Les Arts Florissants
5th Apr 2024
Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants kick off a new project aimed at retracing the steps of Bach's life - focusing on his early work in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen, still barely out of his teens.
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Rachel Podger and Chad Kelly on reimagining Bach's Goldberg Variations
4th Dec 2023
The violinist and composer share their thoughts on adapting Bach's immortal set of keyboard variations for Baroque instrumental ensemble.
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A slow-brewed Goldberg Variations from Víkingur Ólafsson
6th Oct 2023
The Icelandic pianist presents the results of twenty-five years of thoughtful preparation, in a recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations that combines control and spontaneity, limpid gentleness and furious virtuosic energy.
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Well-tempered Bach on the clavichord from András Schiff
27th Jan 2023
An oft-neglected early keyboard instrument finally gets its moment in the sun in an intimate programme of Bach that plays to its strengths, built around the two-part and three-part inventions.
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J.S. Bach: Clavichord
András Schiff (clavichord)
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Francesco Corti on Bach
10th Aug 2022
The harpsichordist and conductor talks about the pleasures and challenges of reconstructing a harpsichord concerto from a single page of music - and how Bach's resourcefulness resonates with his own 'very Italian common-sense practical side!'.
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Adapted and reconstructed Bach concertos from Francesco Corti and Il Pomo d'Oro
22nd Jul 2022
Francesco Corti continues his series of Bach harpsichord concerto recordings with an album of double concertos - including his own collaborative reconstruction with Francesco Zimei of a tantalising fragment.
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Bach's St Matthew Passion from Raphaël Pichon
15th Apr 2022
Raphaël Pichon and his Pygmalion ensemble present a vision of Bach's masterwork that aims for clarity and immediacy over exhaustingly intense theatrics.
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JS Bach: Matthäus-Passion
Julian Prégardien (Evangelist), Stéphane Degout (Christus), Sabine Devieilhe & Hana Blažiková (sopranos), Lucile Richardot (mezzo), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen & Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenors), Christian Immler (bass-baritone) Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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Ana de la Vega on Bach Unbuttoned
6th May 2021
The Australian flautist talks about her new album of new perspectives on Bach, inspired by an intriguing detail on one of the most famous statues erected to him.
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Emmanuel Despax on Spira, Spera
25th Feb 2021
The pianist talks about his new album of Bach transcriptions, inspired in part by his personal reaction to the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of 2019.
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Parker Ramsay on Bach's Goldberg Variations
29th Sep 2020
The harpist talks about his new album, on which he performs his own arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
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Bach: Goldberg Variations (arranged for harp)
Parker Ramsay (harp)
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Lang Lang on Bach's Goldberg Variations
9th Sep 2020
The superstar Chinese pianist talks about his new double recording of Bach's keyboard masterwork, and about his approach to preparing and performing Baroque repertoire.
