Johann Sebastian Bach

The renowned Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara takes over the Château de Champlâtreux for *Sur Mesure*. He has invited dancer Rihoko Sato and violinist Sayaka Shoji to join him in this performance.

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To mark the 2026 edition of the Thuringian Bach Weeks, the orchestra and choir of the Junges Stuttgarter Bach-Ensemble, conducted by Hans-Christoph Rademann, will present a selection of excerpts from the short masses.

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The Orchestra and Choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini, will perform sacred works by Vivaldi and Bach. The program includes the *Dixit Dominus*, the *Concerto di San Lorenzo*, and the *Magnificat*, featuring a distinguished vocal ensemble.

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Norwegian conductor Tabita Berglund leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Archora, Wagner's Prelude to Tristan and Isolde, and Sibelius' Seventh Symphony. In the first half, Julian Steckel performs Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1.

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Every year, Mylène, a teacher, faces challenges in her work. This year, it's little Axelle and her mother who are putting her through the wringer. Patience, firmness, and trust will guide the teacher in helping both the child and her mother feel secure - each of them having a heart much softer than they let on at first glance.

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In The Chairman Dances, John Adams makes Mao dance and Nixon play the piano. In a completely different vein, Harmonielehre pits percussion against melody and strings and winds against rhythm. In Bartók's concerto for two pianos, timpani and xylophone provide a third solo part. David Robertson conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.

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The Orchestra, Choir, and Children's Choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Riccardo Minasi, perform Bach's monumental St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244.

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The Kanneh-Mason family has produced several outstanding musicians. In addition to Sheku, arguably the family’s most famous member, his sister Jenneba Kanneh-Mason—the third of the siblings—is also pursuing a solo career. At the 2025 Ruhr Piano Festival, she will present an evocative program ranging from Bach to Beethoven to Chopin.

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With Renaissance, Shani Diluka embarks on a musical exploration of the era of the same name, which laid the foundation for Western thought and sensibility. She focuses primarily on two key centers of influence: humanist Italy and Elizabethan England. Program: I. Renaissance music, emergence and dissemination of the first scores thanks to Gutenberg (Eccles, Dowland, Byrd, etc.) II. Renaissance and early humanists: music of the spheres becomes music of the humanities (Palestrina, Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, etc.) III. The Renaissance and the Golden Ratio: proportion and beauty (Purcell, Handel, etc.) IV. The Renaissance, a decisive legacy in the history of music thanks to polyphony, harmony, and the development of the relationship between text and music (Scarlatti, Bach, etc.)

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Raphaël Pichon, Pygmalion and Sabine Devieilhe celebrate Bach and love in the very church where the composer married his first wife, Maria Barbara. Program : J. S. Bach - Aria 1 de la cantate « Weichet nur betrübte Schatten » BWV 202

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Simon-Pierre Bestion celebrates the musical and cultural heritage of Paris' Notre-Dame with the La Tempête ensemble and a host of guests like Sabine Devieilhe and Olivier Latry, among others.

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A very short story about creative block.

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Lucas & Arthur Jussen are currently the most successful young piano duo. Accompanied by the Gewandhaus Orchestra under the baton of Andris Nelsons, they follow in the footsteps of composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and his sister Fanny with Mendelssohn's First Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra.

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From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, Giulio Cilona conducts the Rai Orchestra’s Christmas Concert, featuring works by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. The concert features Marco Braito and Roberto Rossi on trumpets and soprano Francesca Aspromonte.

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An intensely musical encounter with the young British star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who performs and discusses his favorite pieces. On the program: Bach, Saint-Saëns, Elgar, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, as well as Bob Marley and Leonard Cohen.

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At the Lightroom in London, pianist Yuja Wang offers an extraordinary recital at the heart of the immersive exhibition devoted to David Hockney. In this concert, the British painter's brightly coloured canvases enter into communion with the musical works performed, ranging from Bach to Samuel Barber. An unusual unison of the visual and audio arts.

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An exceptional event took place from 31 October to 1 November 2025 at St Thomas's Church in Leipzig, where Bach was cantor: Johannes Lang performed the complete organ works of his illustrious predecessor. The 22-hour programme followed the liturgical year. This third part celebrates Pentecost and the three Sundays after Trinity Sunday.

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Russian pianist Aleksandr Dmitrievič Malofeev along with Ukrainian cellist Aleksey Shadrin, jazz musician Brad Mehldau from the United States, Gabriella Montero from Venezuela, Francesco Piemontesi from Switzerland, Beatrice Rana from Italy, and Nobuyuki Tsujii from Japan.

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An invitation to a musical voyage. Armenia, with a virtuoso trumpet concerto, Norway, with character studies, and the call of America - or nostalgia for Bohemia - with Dvořák's Ninth. The Yerevan Youth Symphony Orchestra is galvanised by Sergueï Smbatyan's direction and accompanies trumpeter Sergueï Nakariakov.

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Julia Fischer sublimates Brahms's Violin Concerto alongside the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Cristian Măcelaru. An eclectic programme that also highlights works by Elsa Barraine and Claude Debussy.

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An exceptional event took place from 31 October to 1 November 2025 in St Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach was cantor: Johannes Lang performed the complete organ works of his illustrious predecessor. The 22-hour programme followed the liturgical year. The works in this second part celebrate Eastertide.

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An exceptional event took place from 31 October to 1 November 2025 in St Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach was cantor: Johannes Lang performed the complete organ works of his illustrious predecessor. The 22-hour programme followed the liturgical year. The works in this first part celebrate Advent and Christmas.

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The Orchestre National de France takes to the stage at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées for a special concert conducted by Andris Poga and dedicated to Mozart and Bruckner. The evening will feature the virtuosity of pianist David Fray in a Mozart concerto, followed by the symphonic grandeur of Bruckner.

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In memory of the countless victims of armed conflict, Patricia Kopatchinskaja presents a concert conceived as a mosaic of deeply moving music and texts from a wide variety of sources and authors. The violinist breaks down the traditional barrier between the stage and the audience.

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Pianist Alexandre Tharaud and dancer Chun Wing Lam celebrate the music of Bach in a former foundry where several of Rodin's masterpieces were created.

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Although he is a highly regarded classical pianist, Francesco Tristano closes his concerts with a remarkable DJ set. With these unique performances, part classical music and part electronic, the Luxembourg-based artist proves he can stimulate both mind and body.

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Whenever Chamayou and Andsnes perform together, the magic happens. They will reunite in 2024 at the Ruhr Piano Festival. This time, the two collaborators will perform miniatures from the Játékok (Games) cycle by Hungarian composer György Kurtág. These will be paired with, as if in a mirror, deeply moving pieces composed by Schubert shortly before his death, where beauty rubs shoulders with suffering.

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The Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis compares two sacred works from the German Baroque repertoire, both celebrating the resurrection of Christ: the Easter Oratorio by the Lutheran Johann Sebastian Bach, which premiered in Leipzig in 1725, and the Missa Paschalis by the Catholic Jan Dismas Zelenka, which premiered in Dresden in 1726.

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Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion ensemble join forces with a magnificent vocal ensemble to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Actus Tragicus, set to a work by Johann Michael Bach. Program : Johann Michael Bach - Unser Leben ist siebenzig Jahre Jean-Sébastien Bach - Cantate Actus Tragicus BWV 106 (extraits)

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For their final concert on Les Chemins de Bach, Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion ensemble perform Bach's short masses and motets in Arnstadt's Bachkirche.

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Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion Ensemble in concert in Arnstadt's Oberkirche, Johann Sebastian Bach's ancestral church.

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In March 2024, to mark the 300th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion, premiered in Leipzig in 1724, Berlin-born Sasha Waltz presented a movingly intense choreographed version on the stage of the Opéra de Dijon.

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To mark the 140th anniversary of the organ at Riga Cathedral, Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna and the Latvian Choir are presenting a concert combining classical works (Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt) and contemporary pieces (Sven-David Sandström), showcasing the rich sound of this exceptional instrument.

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