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Bach St Matthew Passion: a guide to this superb oratorio and its best recordings

A powerful setting of Jesus's final days, the St Matthew Passion was responsible for the resurgence of interest in JS Bach's sacred choral music after the composer's death. Here is our guide to understanding the work and our recommendations for its best recording
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The best recordings of JS Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier

Kate Bolton-Porciatti travels through all the major and minor keys on her journey to find the finest recordings of Bach's extensive sets of preludes and fugues for solo keyboard
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The Best Recordings of JS Bach's Goldberg Variations

This work is a staple in classical keyboard repertoire. Here we list the best recordings of JS Bach's Goldberg Variations from the last 20 years.
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Bach's best keyboard works

What are the best piano pieces by JS Bach? We give you five to start with
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Bach for beginners: the recordings to help you discover Bach

Pianist George Lepauw introduces us to his essential Bach listening
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JS Bach is the greatest composer of all time, say today’s leading composers for BBC Music Magazine

The German composer was given the top spot by 174 living composers
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Five of the best Bach transcriptions

The BBC Music Magazine team names their favourite interpretations and arrangements of works by the Baroque legend 
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A guide to Bach's 'Sheep may safely graze'

What you need to know about Bach's much-loved soprano aria, Sheep may safely graze
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Five essential works by JS Bach

We choose the best works by the king of counterpoint, Bach
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Bach’s caffeine-based love affair

Did you know JS Bach was a coffee fiend? He even wrote a caffeinated cantata...
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JS Bach's top 10 works... according to Twitter

Twitter has spoken, and results are in. We reveal the best works by Bach as decided in the first ever #BachOff
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From Bach to Bakes…

Hilary Hahn and Alexandra Dariescu on the art of cake-making…
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Bach portrait returns home to Leipzig

EG Haussmann's famous painting of JS Bach is donated to Leipzig's Bach Archive
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