Pianists were shell-shocked when the tidal wave of period performance practices hit. The belief that musicians should play in the style used when individual works were written automatically excluded ...
A brilliant new album of bright Baroque concertos from three members of the Bach family. Album of the Week, 11 March 2013. It's well known that the Bach family were unusually talented, but it's a ...
Jean Rondeau's new album, 'Dynastie', is an Editor's Choice in the March 2017 issue of Gramophone. It features keyboard concertos by CPE, JC and JS Bach, as well as an arrangement of a sonata by WF ...
In 1726 - probably the earliest date allowed by the enormous demands of J. S. Bach’s official position in Leipzig for new sacred vocal music - the composer began to write a series of keyboard suites, ...
'The interpretations are characterised by a sense of freshness, with energy in the outer movements and soul in the inner ones, ornamentation absolutely integral to the line, and a relishing of the ...
Playing on a modern Steinway, the Italian pianist invests Bach’s keyboard works with vitality and a memorable soft-edged inwardness Last year, the young Italian pianist Federico Colli made waves with ...
Johann Sebastian Bach's music is known for its symmetrical structure and mathematical patterns. But pianist Simone Dinnerstein thinks Bach's deviations from those patterns are what make the music so ...
Intrigued by Radio 3's Bach-filled Christmas, but don't know where to start? Joe Staines and Duncan Clark show how beginners can get their teeth into Bach, with the composer's top ten works and ...
THE COMPLETE BACH continues its 11 year project to present live performances of all known works by J.S. Bach Part of ...
In a development that could put Worcester in the center of a world-wide cultural map for a decade or more, Music Worcester will perform all of 18th century German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian ...
David Fray knows how to make Bach sexy. The 27-year-old Frenchman brings his powerfully individual voice and awe-inspiring technique to bear on four keyboard concertos J.S. Bach wrote around 1733 for ...