Lots of performers play Bach on the modern piano. No one does it better than Murray Perahia, whose command of sonorities, dynamics and phrasing makes you hear the piano as an ideal Baroque instrument.

The music world has scholarly performers and performing scholars - and then a smaller number of true multiple threats. Davitt Moroney, who teaches at UC Berkeley, is one of those. Moroney, 62, has ...

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 ...

Mahan Esfahani, whose new album, “Bach: The Six Partitas,” was just released on Hyperion, wants to restore the harpsichord to the classical mainstream, where its position was usurped two centuries ago ...

For a long time now, the classical music world has been saddled with lots of faceless pianists. These musicians perform all the right notes, sometimes with a prodigious technical fluency. What they ...

Stephen Johnson and pianist Leon McCawley examine J.S. Bach's Partita No. 4. J.S. Bach composed six keyboard Partitas, or suites of dances, that have become a landmark of the pianist's repertory, even ...

ASPEN – She stands quietly in the middle of the stage at the 2,050-seat Benedict Music Tent, looking mildly amused. A long ponytail drapes over the shoulder that does not have a violin tucked above it ...

It is extraordinary that of over a thousand pieces written by J S Bach only about a dozen were published in his lifetime. The pieces he chose as his opus 1 – although published in 1731 when he was in ...

"If you really want to have what I think is a special experience, find yourself two hours and 45 minutes during which you can listen to all six Partitas at once — just put them on, lie on the sofa or ...

Cantata No. 29, 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken, Movements: Sinfonia Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Nadejda Vlaeva, Piano Cantata No. 3, 'Ach Gott, wie manches ...