Stephen Johnson explores how Leipzig's coffee society found its perfect counterpart in the music of Bach and the orchestral suites which he performed among the clinking cups. Show more Stephen Johnson ...

Occasionally I’ll be on Facebook and a photo from 2007 will pop up as a ‘memory’. I’ll pass through a sequence of emotions: surprise, nostalgia, then incredulity. Did I really look that young? I ...

Bach – Suite No 4. Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in F RV569. Concerto da Camera in G minor RV103. Rameau – Les Paladins Suite. It’s hard not to feel that performances of Bach’s Fourth Orchestral Suite ...

In the 18th century, a true gentleman was expected to know all the latest dance steps. Bach wrote stylized versions of many of those dances in his Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D Major. Bernard Labadie ...