Keith Jarrett and Johann Sebastian Bach go back a long way. Between 1722 and 1742, Bach composed two sets of preludes and fugues in all twenty-four major and minor keys, written for keyboard; the ...
Accessibility of knowledge was crucial to the Enlightenment. That ethos was embodied in the celebrated Encyclopédie of Diderot and D’Alembert, the first of its seventeen volumes appearing in 1751, the ...
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movements: C sharp minor, BWV873 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Sergey Schepkin, Piano (Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered ...
I don’t think that Sviatoslav Richter, still less Sir András Schiff, would have reminded me of Kurt Cobain at this point. Not even, maybe, Edwin Fischer, whose pioneering 1930s recordings set a ...
The legendary German composer's creation is the most influential piano work in music history, played to this day by musicians who want to perfect their technique. Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, ...
While some generous expressive effects are occasionally overdone, the fugues are projected with verve and crispness, and show Suzuki at his best This month BIS is releasing two discs of JS Bach’s ...
The famous conductor Hans von Bülow, slightly less famous as a pianist now and nearly forgotten as a composer, remains most present to modern music lovers either as the jilted husband of Cosima von ...
Playing his own selection of pieces from Bach’s monumental work may be heresy, but Anderszewki’s intelligence, lucidity and joy is undeniable It’s four years since Piotr Anderszewski last released a ...
(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movements: C, BWV870 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Gary Cooper, Harpsichord (Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, ...