Keith Jarrett and Johann Sebastian Bach go back a long way. Between 1722 and 1742, Bach composed two sets of preludes and fugues in all twenty-four major and minor keys, written for keyboard; the ...

The preludes and fugues that make up Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” operate on multiple levels at once — they’re a compilation of techniques for keyboard writing, a polemic on the subject of tuning ...

Not only across the whole span of the 24 keys, from C major to B minor, but even within the four or five minutes of a single prelude-fugue couple, Bach can take you from the solemn polyphony of a ...

The famous conductor Hans von Bülow, slightly less famous as a pianist now and nearly forgotten as a composer, remains most present to modern music lovers either as the jilted husband of Cosima von ...

Prelude & Fugues: XIII F-sharp major; XIII F-sharp major; XIV f-sharp minor; XV G major; XIV f-sharp minor; XV G major; XVI g minor; XVII A-flat major; XVI g minor; XVII A-flat major; XVIII g-sharp; ...

The Preludes inspire Crossland's best work. I especially enjoyed the C major's intelligent dynamic build and subtle shadings, the D major's perky left-hand accents, the G major's skittish yet ...

The two volumes of Bach’s The Well-Temperd Clavier together represent one of Western music’s greatest achievements. Once described as the ‘Old Testament’ of the keyboard repertoire, these two ...

Yet if this sober approach – echoed in Rousset’s somewhat technical booklet-notes – is one that doesn’t always reveal its charms immediately, it is certainly worth sticking with, and indeed makes a ...