Visual artist Alan Warburton has used CGI neon lights to create a haunting animation inspired by Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s recording of Bach’s masterpiece. The result is mesmerising. The animation took ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Baroque music, especially that of Johann Sebastian Bach, has long attracted ...
The legendary German composer's creation is the most influential piano work in music history, played to this day by musicians who want to perfect their technique. Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, ...
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 ...
Angela Hewitt, the Canadian-born pianist, brought her World Bach Tour to Portland this week. On Sunday, she played Book I and tonight, she finishes with Book II. Her playing, as we've come to expect ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
If Andras Schiff`s playing outwardly bears a certain resemblance to the playing of several other pianists of his generation, inwardly the young Hungarian pianist follows the beat of a different ...
Maurizio Pollini is no stranger to Bach, and Bach is no stranger to Pollini’s concert programmes. But this complete recording of the first book of the is the great Italian pianist’s first Bach ...