Heavy stones were thrown in a New Year’s Eve attack on one of classical music history’s most important churches. Police have launched an investigation into an act of vandalism at St. Thomas Church in ...

Police are investigating after 25 panes of glass were smashed at a world-famous church in the eastern German city of Leipzig. Police are looking for a suspect, and the church pastor has her own ...

In this episode of DW Festival Concert with Cristina Burack, we listen to the St. Mathew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach. It's a piece that tells the story of Christ's crucifixion and death. Every ...

The Leipzig Bach Festival is an annual event. But it has surely never been quite like this before. The festival’s artistic director, Michael Maul, and the president and director, respectively, of the ...

A great prelude to the Leipzig trip was Yo-Yo Ma playing Bach cello suites at the Barbican. Astonishing that a single performer and instrument can hold 3000 people (including my 13-year-old son) ...

This year marks the 300th anniversary of the first performance in Leipzig of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion, a monumental work first performed under Bach's direction at St Nicholas Church on ...

Leipzig-based Bach researcher Peter Wollny identifies two organ compositions as the work of the 18-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach · First performance in 320 years to be livestreamed from St Thomas’ ...

Heavy stones were thrown in a New Year’s Eve attack on one of classical music history’s most important churches. Police have launched an investigation into an act of vandalism at St. Thomas Church in ...