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 ...

Lots of performers play Bach on the modern piano. No one does it better than Murray Perahia, whose command of sonorities, dynamics and phrasing makes you hear the piano as an ideal Baroque instrument.

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 ...

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 ...

Mahan Esfahani, whose new album, “Bach: The Six Partitas,” was just released on Hyperion, wants to restore the harpsichord to the classical mainstream, where its position was usurped two centuries ago ...

Chaconne in D minor, transc. for piano [from Bach's Partita for violin solo, BWV 1004]Chaconne in D minor, transc. for piano [from Bach's Partita for violin solo, BWV 1004] ...

Cantata No. 29, 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken, Movements: Sinfonia Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Nadejda Vlaeva, Piano Cantata No. 3, 'Ach Gott, wie manches ...

ASPEN – She stands quietly in the middle of the stage at the 2,050-seat Benedict Music Tent, looking mildly amused. A long ponytail drapes over the shoulder that does not have a violin tucked above it ...

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 ...

"If you really want to have what I think is a special experience, find yourself two hours and 45 minutes during which you can listen to all six Partitas at once — just put them on, lie on the sofa or ...