How Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor became Halloween’s theme song

Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn night. As the door opens, an organ pierces through the thick silence and echoes through the cavernous halls. The tune that comes to many minds ...
Wall Street Journal

Bach’s Solo Organ Spectacular

Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, ...
Gramophone

JS BACH The Complete Organ Works, Vols 8 & 9

Chorale Preludes, Movements: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV720 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer David Goode, Organ Choral Preludes from the Kirnberger Collection, Movements: Das Jesulein soll doch ...

Kali Malone: Burning Song review – drone composer wields Bach’s organ to breathtaking effect

The US artist takes a newly compact approach to her craft, and trades technical composition methods for pure emotion on another sombre masterpiece ...
The New Zealand Herald

Two newly discovered Bach organ works unveiled in Germany

The two long-lost organ pieces have been added to the official catalogue of Bach’s works. Photo / Jens Schlueter, Bach Archive, AFP Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian ...
WGBH

Bach, the Hook organ and the sounds like ‘heaven’ at Mechanics Hall

Mechanics Hall in Worcester is home to the famed Hook Organ, also known as the Worcester Organ. And GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath sat down with Mechanics Hall principal organist Peter ...
Gramophone

Bach Organ Works

Toccata and Fugue Karl Richter, Organ Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer (6) Trio Sonatas, Movements: No. 1 in E flat, BWV525 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Karl Richter, Organ (6) Trio Sonatas, ...
Wall Street Journal

Bach Is Back, With Two ‘New’ Works for Organ

It’s exciting news, if a bit niche: Researchers have attributed two new works to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The announcement this week coincided with the 75th anniversary of the Bach Archive ...
The Daily Telegraph

How to hear Bach’s music as it might have sounded in his lifetime

An organ from 1737 – which the composer himself might have played – reveals the full colour of his organ music in Masaaki Suzuki's new CD Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an ...
nytimes.com

Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A new project completes Bach’s plans for his kaleidoscopic “Orgelbüchlein,” with a 21st-century touch. By Hugh Morris One of the most enduring ...
Digital Journal

Two newly discovered Bach organ works unveiled in Germany

Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were presented in Germany on Monday – Copyright AFP Brendan SMIALOWSKI Two long-lost organ ...