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 ...

The sprawling organ collection “Clavier-Übung III” is not as widely known as it should be. An excellent new recording could ...

Playing Bach’s mammoth work from memory, the US pianist brought wit, insights and lightness of touch When JS Bach composed the first instalment of his Well-Tempered Clavier it had a simple premise.

While some generous expressive effects are occasionally overdone, the fugues are projected with verve and crispness, and show Suzuki at his best This month BIS is releasing two discs of JS Bach’s ...

I don’t think that Sviatoslav Richter, still less Sir András Schiff, would have reminded me of Kurt Cobain at this point. Not even, maybe, Edwin Fischer, whose pioneering 1930s recordings set a ...

Christophe Rousset, a remarkable harpsichordist and conductor who occupies a place of high honor among Baroque-music interpreters, scores a triumph with this magisterial reading of one of the ...

This Christmas I received one gift that was really more like 400. A kindhearted and decluttering local bestowed unto me and my limited shelf space his entire collection of classical vinyl — about ...

Live at BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall: Sir András Schiff performs Book 1 of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier. The master pianist plays nearly two hours of music that for many represents both ...