It's a special 'you had to be there' moment in the world of live music, with master pianist Sir Andras Schiff taking centre stage in a compelling late-morning concert at the BBC Proms at the Royal ...

Schiff has always excelled in gargantuan programmes and series; he appears to have the mental constitution of a marathon runner plus a memory worthy of an elephant. Sitting low at the keyboard, he ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is considered the leading Baroque composer with only fellow German G.F. Handel to contend with for the title. To be sure, Bach was a transfiguring muse for the music pioneered by ...

It was the three big pieces (all published or labelled as "Keyboard Practice" by their tongue-in-cheek creator) specifically written for two-manual harpsichord: first the Italian Concerto BWV971, then ...