Containing his Air on a G string, Bach composed four orchestral suites, including his most famous offering, the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068. Bach wrote a total of four orchestral suites, the ...

The death of Christopher Hogwood was among the most notable losses in classical music during 2014. As founder of the Academy of Ancient Music, he was a leading pioneer of period instruments and it is ...

The Saarbrucken Radio Symphony plays the famous Air from Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3. Only there's a twist. Sergei Nakariakov plays the famous melody on the fluegelhorn. Stanislaw Skrowaczewski is ...

A bright new recording of Bach's Orchestral Suites from Ensemble Sonnerie. Bach's four Orchestral Suites are among his most famous works - not least because of Suite No.3, which includes the 'Air on ...

As prolific a composer (and patriarch) as Johann Sebastian Bach was, he managed to compose a precious few instrumental orchestral works. Besides solo instrument concertos, there exist only the six ...

Period-instrument performances are plentiful; performances that actually conjure the period in question are not. Recorded in the Great Hall of the Arsenal in Metz, France, in August 1990 and ...

Two of Bach's suites for orchestra frame duo concerto performances by some of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra's finest. Directed by William Hennessy, the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra celebrates the ...

“Orchestral Suites for a young prince” is what this release advertises, in reference to the fact that Sonnerie perform Bach’s familiar suites in versions ...

Hannah French explores Bach's Four Orchestral Suites, which although never published or seen as a collection in the composer's lifetime, contain some of his most enduring music. Show more Hannah ...

Basle and Freiburg, barely 50 miles apart on either side of the Swiss/German border, are where the nexus of the period movement now resides, thanks to two chamber orchestras who have snatched the ...