A colourful bouquet with music by Johann Sebastian Bach
28.07.2025,
To get you in the mood for the Bachfest, the BR-KLASSIK editorial team has rummaged through the archives and continues to compile what the Bach heart desires. The choir laments in many voices in the Passions, the cello dances in the Suites and the Goldberg Variations lull you to sleep. Bach's music has something to suit every situation. In the ARD Mediathek you can now discover many music recordings with renowned artists and orchestras.
The concerts/music videos include the really great works such as Bach's "Matthäus-Passion" or the "Weihnachts-Oratorium", but also classics such as the "Goldberg Variations", the hit "Air" from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 and
the "Brandenburgische Konzert" No. 2 as well as
Bach's "Messias" at the Bachfest Leipzig 2021
Bach/Webern: Ricercar a 6 from: Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079
Bach's "Passacaglia" and Fugue in C minor under Leopold Stokowski 1969
and many more
Bach's Toccata in D minor with Angela Metzger
Angela Metzger plays the Toccata in D minor BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach on the Wiegleb organ in St Gumbert's Church in Ansbach. Director Philippe Matic-Arnauld des Lions staged the recording in a gloomy stormy night. A BR-KLASSIK production from 2024.
Bach's "Johannes-Passion"
The Bavarian Radio Choir sings Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion in a recording from 2015 with conductor Peter Dijkstra. Alongside the "Matthäus-Passion", the "Johannes-Passion" is the only authentic Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach to have survived in its entirety. The Passion story is viewed from different perspectives: The space of the High Gothic basilica comes into its own in a very special way in this recording at the opening concert of the International Organ Week Nuremberg 2015: the concert set-up (choir and orchestra in the centre of the church, soloists in the audience seating area, i.e. the "congregation") and the lighting of the church also tell the spiritual content of the Bach Passion in a new and captivating visual way.
With: Regensburger Domspatzen, Simona Brüninghaus, Christina Landshamer - soprano, Anke Vondung - alto, Krešimir Stražanac, Andreas Burkhart - baritone, Maximilian Schmitt, Tilman Lichdi, Andreas Hirtreiter, Moon Yung Oh - tenor, Tareq Nazmi - bass, Bavarian Radio Choir, Concerto Köln, Peter Dijkstra
A production of BR-KLASSIK
Bach's "Suite No. 1", Gigue with Ivan Turkalj
Cellist Ivan Turkalj (violoncello) plays the 7th movement (Gigue) from the Suite No. 1 in G major (BWV 1007) by Johann Sebastian Bach. The recording in the shell of the BERGSON Kunstkraftwerk in Munich from December 2022 is a production of BR-KLASSIK.
