1 Review: BBC PROMS: VIVALDI AND BACH, Royal Albert Hall 2 Review: BBC PROMS: FIRST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2025, Royal Albert Hall 3 Review: BBC PROMS: BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH, Royal Albert Hall On March 19, ...

To Germans, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is a jealously guarded possession, and judgments of any new Bach performer are sharply critical, especially if the performer is a foreigner. But last ...

According to Kristian Bezuidenhout, “The Sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014-1019 are some of the composer’s most elusive and puzzling works… this is music that poses tantalising ...

What would Johann Sebastian Bach make of a goat rodeo? There can be little doubt that the greatest composer ever would have been unfazed hearing his music played by a trio of cello, mandolin and bass, ...

The audience was small. The slight keyboard instrument painted green on the stage wasn’t imposing. Beyond the first few rows of Walt Disney Concert Hall Wednesday, the delicate sound it made was faint ...

Bach: Harpsichord Concertos Nos. 1-7; Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord; Brandenburg Concerto No. 5; Italian Concerto. Murray Perahia, piano and conducting the Academy of St.

If the Kilkenny Arts Festival has whetted rather than sated your appetite for Bach, here’s Andreas Staier swinging into view with new versions of seven harpsichord concertos on two mid-price CDs. The ...

Mahan Esfahani says the harpsichord is as relevant today as it was when Bach and Vivaldi were playing it, and his interview with NPR's Robert Siegel this past June left no doubt. It's not every day ...

How would you describe the music of CPE Bach to someone who had never heard it? The work of a musical freethinker, a master of the unexpected? Music that’s so full of surprises that it always sounds ...

When Virgil Thomson saw Wanda Landowska perform at New York’s Town Hall in 1942, he wrote in the New York Herald-Tribune, “She plays the harpsichord better than anybody else ever plays anything.” The ...

Bach in the City, Chicago's newest Baroque period-instrument organization, will present 'Bach's Musical World,' at Allen ...