Before his much-anticipated October 23 Carnegie Hall recital, of music by Bach, Beethoven, and Schumann, the magisterial Jewish American pianist Murray Perahia is releasing a new CD on Sony Classical ...

With the release of his latest three CDs, pianist Richard Goode has now recorded all six Bach Partitas for keyboard. Fred Child of Performance Today visited with Goode to talk about each one of these ...

Outrageous, grotesque, absurd, insane: These are all adjectives that suggest a certain, even fix, point of departure. If that point is Bach’s Sixth Partita as performed by, say, Angela Hewitt, Murray ...

Gandelsman has been celebrated for playing a wide variety of music, from purely classical to the most inventive contemporary pieces. He takes on Bach's complex sonatas and partitas on his new album.

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, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Even pianists who play Bach’s Partitas on a modern grand might envy Richard Egarr his 1991 copy of a ...

A new pianistic voice, the Russian-German Igor Levit (b. 1987) boldly entered the recording scene last year with late Beethoven sonatas. Here he moves back to Bach and is equally stimulating. Every ...

At first blush, Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin played on the humble mandolin might be akin to making a Rusty Nail with single-malt scotch. A successful performance will require, at the ...

After a period of purism, pianists like András Schiff, Murray Perahia and Richard Goode are successfully reclaiming the music of Bach; it's amazing that as wide-ranging a player as Vladimir Ashkenazy ...

(3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movements: Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV1002 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Timo Korhonen, Guitar (3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movements: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004 ...