In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn ...
Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor is one of the most famous pieces of Baroque organ music ever written - with a particularly iconic opening Bach probably composed the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, ...
A mighty Bach organ Toccata – with actual flames. Con fuoco! Someone has built an organ that shoots out actual flames – and this guy has played some Bach on it. This incredible instrument was found at ...
Colin MacKnight is getting "organized." Starting Wednesday, he's planning to perform the entire collected organ works of Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach this year, marking the 275th anniversary ...
When Cameron Carpenter plays the organ, it doesn't sound like the organ you hear at the baseball park or like the one playing a Bach fugue in church. His concerts are different, drawing on classics by ...
On a sunny Wednesday afternoon in March, the light through Trinity Episcopal Cathedral’s stained-glass windows is a cool, heathered blue. The building’s dark wood interior muffles the sounds of ...
Most of the music we hear around us takes the form of tune and accompaniment. One voice leads with a melody, all the other parts sit, more-or-less, in supporting roles. Fugue is different. In a fugue, ...
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German musician and composer who wrote throughout the 18th Century. For most of his career, Bach worked as an organist and choirmaster at various churches throughout ...