Pierre-Laurent Aimard released a well-received recording of Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier in 2014 on DG. The celebrated ...

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movements: G sharp minor, BWV863 Gary Cooper, Harpsichord Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer (Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) ...

Piotr Anderszewski has recorded Book II of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, sort of. I’ll explain in a moment. Anderszewski is the Polish pianist born in 1969: brilliant, versatile, and individualistic.

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 ...

Accessibility of knowledge was crucial to the Enlightenment. That ethos was embodied in the celebrated Encyclopédie of Diderot and D’Alembert, the first of its seventeen volumes appearing in 1751, the ...

The Music Study Club of Iowa City continues to offer live music to a limited audience during the pandemic. On April 14, I was privileged to be part of an enthusiastic group who listened to Nathan ...

Baroque music, especially that of Johann Sebastian Bach, has long attracted jazz artists as a vehicle for improvisation, from the bebop era into the 21st century; in that spirit, New York-based ...

Hill is unfailingly musicianly in his approach, his playing full of the kind of insights that can only come from long acquaintance with the music. He lets Bach speak for himself – this is entirely ...

Some 250 years after the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, four noted classical pianists tackle the composer's "The Well-Tempered Clavier," a collection of keyboard pieces often referred to as the "Old ...

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 ...