The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Pythagoras thought the cosmos was all about numbers and their relationships, an idea that always struck my liberal-arts mind as dry and cold and impossibly lacking ...

Listeners familiar with Alexandra Papastefanou’s Bach will not be surprised how she also makes the composer’s English Suites feel right at home on the concert grand, while conveying astute stylistic ...

English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806: I. Prélude English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806: II. Allemande English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806: III. Courante I English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV ...

(6) English Suites Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Masaaki Suzuki, Harpsichord Viewing the English Suites as a kind of laboratory of experiment in style management by a young composer striding forth, ...

On one side of 1st Street in downtown L.A., Einstein looms large. On the other side, Socrates. Who can possibly walk among them? Why, Bach, of course. Wednesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the ...

Harpsichordist Carsten Schmidt returns to a favorite project September 29 at 4:00 pm at St. Francis Catholic Church, when he offers four of J.S. Bach’s enigmatic Fantasias and three demanding English ...

Internationally noted harpsichordist Carsten Schmidt continues his multi-year project of performing all of J. S. Bach’s hundreds of compositions for keyboard. This year he offers two programs of the ...

Polish-born Piotr Anderszewski is no stranger to playing Bach’s English Suites. He first recorded them more than 10 years ago. But time and experience has honed his expressive interpretations. His ...

Bach’s “English Suites” are among his most diverting music for the keyboard, where a delight in patterns and brilliant finger-work crowds out a severe contrapuntal approach. Bach’s encyclopedic ...

The US-born Simone Dinnerstein is no teenage prodigy – Juilliard trained, she has been around for a while, and after the huge success of her self-financed solo debut recording of the Goldberg ...

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