(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movements: F minor, BWV881 Edwin Fischer, Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer (Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier ...

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 ...

Jazzing the classics is something that has been done many times, usually in ways that trivialize both kinds of music. But because pianist-composer John Lewis` love of Bach is genuine and linked to his ...

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 ...

While listening to András Schiff’s new recording of J.S. Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier” on headphones as I stared up into the crown of a maple tree, it suddenly struck me that listening to Bach is ...

When he was a boy, Andras Schiff labored over the tedious, repetitive finger studies that are universally loathed by aspiring pianists. He thought they were like spinach: yucky, but good for you if ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...