In 1726 - probably the earliest date allowed by the enormous demands of J. S. Bach’s official position in Leipzig for new sacred vocal music - the composer began to write a series of keyboard suites, ...
Bach’s Birthday Bash 2025 will feature Jeremy Denk performing The Complete Keyboard Partitas at Mechanics Hall. This celebration of Bach's music offers audiences a chance to experience Denk's ...
Before his much-anticipated October 23 Carnegie Hall recital, of music by Bach, Beethoven, and Schumann, the magisterial Jewish American pianist Murray Perahia is releasing a new CD on Sony Classical ...
With the release of his latest three CDs, pianist Richard Goode has now recorded all six Bach Partitas for keyboard. Fred Child of Performance Today visited with Goode to talk about each one of these ...
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 ...
It is doubtful that Bach ever intended all six of his keyboard Partitas to be performed at one sitting, certainly not in a public auditorium the size of Orchestra Hall. But Bach’s music has proved ...
It is extraordinary that of over a thousand pieces written by J S Bach only about a dozen were published in his lifetime. The pieces he chose as his opus 1 – although published in 1731 when he was in ...
Music Worcester presents a Bach Birthday Bash weekend in Mechanics Hall March 21-23 to celebrate J.S. Bach's 340th birthday. The weekend will consist of four concerts featuring 14 of Bach's works ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Keyboard Conversations, featuring concert pianist Jeffrey Siegel opens the ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Bach came late to the publish-or-perish principle; his credo was the exact opposite of the critic H.L. Mencken, who opined: "Nobody ever ...