This is FRESH AIR. Our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says he's not listening to a lot of classical music during the pandemic, but a couple of recent recordings of works that go back to such ...

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The year 1685 was certainly good for music. After all, Johann Sebastian Bach, composer of St. Matthew Passion and B Minor Mass, was born in that year, but, if that were not enough, it was the birth ...

Terrance McKnight: Live from the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, I'm Terrance McKnight from WQXR 105. 9 FM, New York City's number one classical music station. We're here at this historic ...

Comfort ye! The Messiah has finally come to Bethlehem! No, not that Messiah, but Handel’s beloved oratorio. The Bach Choir of Bethlehem will perform “Messiah” Part 1 for the first time in its 121-year ...

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As Handel once remarked when congratulated on the success of a “Messiah” performance: “I should be sorry if I only entertained them – I wish to make them better.” The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, in its ...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) were contemporaries and iconic giants who never met. Both have written some of the best-known and influential works in western ...