In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn ...

Colin MacKnight is getting "organized." Starting Wednesday, he's planning to perform the entire collected organ works of Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach this year, marking the 275th anniversary ...

On a sunny Wednesday afternoon in March, the light through Trinity Episcopal Cathedral’s stained-glass windows is a cool, heathered blue. The building’s dark wood interior muffles the sounds of ...

A mighty Bach organ Toccata – with actual flames. Con fuoco! Someone has built an organ that shoots out actual flames – and this guy has played some Bach on it. This incredible instrument was found at ...

Most of the music we hear around us takes the form of tune and accompaniment. One voice leads with a melody, all the other parts sit, more-or-less, in supporting roles. Fugue is different. In a fugue, ...

The dark, deep sound of a solo viola takes on the role of a pipe organ, in an immensely beautiful and striking performance. The dramatic opening flourishes of Bach’s D minor Toccata and Fugue are one ...

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German musician and composer who wrote throughout the 18th Century. For most of his career, Bach worked as an organist and choirmaster at various churches throughout ...

Many folks would call Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor the ultimate piece of scary music, thanks to any number of horror movies and pop culture moments that have used its thundering organ sounds as ...