Happy Bach’s 331st birthday! To celebrate, we had a partita party with violinist Rachel Barton Pine. (What’s a “partita,” you ask? Listen and learn, my friends.) Rachel explains Bach’s sonatas and ...

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 ...

This is FRESH AIR. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin are as big a test for a violinist as his cello suites are for a solo cellist. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says there are many ...

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 ...

In the grim pandemic nadir of September 2020, violinist Soovin Kim stepped out on an empty stage at the New England Conservatory in Boston and performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas ...

(3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movements: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV1001 Chris Thile, Mandolin Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer (3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movements: Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV1003 ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin. Miriam Fried one of the world’s pre-eminent violinists returns to Curtis to shepherd the students through Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas ...

(3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movements: Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV1003 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Hélène Schmitt, Violin (3) Sonatas and 3 Partitas, Movements: Sonata No. 3 in C, BWV1005 Hélène ...

At first blush, Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin played on the humble mandolin might be akin to making a Rusty Nail with single-malt scotch. A successful performance will require, at the ...

Gandelsman has been celebrated for playing a wide variety of music, from purely classical to the most inventive contemporary pieces. He takes on Bach's complex sonatas and partitas on his new album.