Why is Bach's violin music so beautiful? Superstar violinist Ray Chen has spent time in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic recording a new album of Bach's music. He talks about the Bach that ...
In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...
On Thursday and Friday evening at Baker-Baum Concert Hall, the La Jolla Music Society presented violinist Midori in the six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach.
This is the next instalment in Isabelle Faust’s Bach recording adventure that began nine years ago. Her recording of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas are still regarded as some of the finest out there. The ...
Bach's concertos - they're essential listening. The Brandenburg Concertos, the keyboard concertos… they're all great, but what is it about the Violin Concerto in A minor that keeps people coming back ...
Violinist Podger makes Bach’s suites sound as if they were written for her instrument, such is her buoyancy and agility Isn’t Rachel Podger a violinist? What’s she doing recording Bach’s Cello Suites?
Janine Jansen’ s Bach concertos collection, for which the Dutch violist is joined by friends and family (father Jan on harpsichord and brother Maarten on cello), is more idiosyncratic than you might ...
Two years after her disc of the D minor and E major Partitas and the C major Sonata, Isabelle Faust completes her set of Bach's works for solo violin with G minor and A minor Sonatas and the B minor ...