This review has been updated. See note below. András Schiff is the Master. Wednesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, he played the first book of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier.” A book it is. A Bach ...
Today's Video of the Day is a performance of Bach's 'Prelude and Fugue No.22 in B-flat Minor' by Manami Suzuki. This video was taken from her performance at the Hamamatsu International Piano ...
When the Berlin magazine "Signale für die Musikalische Welt" announced a piano work contest in 1909, Szymanowski submitted a combination of an old fugue he had composed back in 1905 with a short, ...
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 ...
Today we're delighted to bring you a film of Daniel Moult playing Bach's Prelude and Fugue in D minor BWV 539 on the Silbermann organ of St Marien, Roetha. It's taken from the forthcoming film project ...
In the last decade of his life, from 1740 to 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach abandoned the furious pace of composition he had maintained for over 30 years and concentrated his creative energies largely on ...
Tom Service explores fugues, trying his hand at Bach's Fugue in C minor from Book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier and getting tips from harpsichord player Mahan Esfahani. Show more Tom Service looks at ...
There cannot be too many experiences more fascinating or rewarding than hearing music of Johann Sebastian Bach that has been forgotten for the better part of 300 years. It was an experience enjoyed by ...
Ever since it was featured in the soundtrack of the 1931 film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor has been the unofficial anthem of Halloween. In fact, classical music in ...