The preludes and fugues that make up Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” operate on multiple levels at once — they’re a compilation of techniques for keyboard writing, a polemic on the subject of tuning ...

While listening to András Schiff’s new recording of J.S. Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier” on headphones as I stared up into the crown of a maple tree, it suddenly struck me that listening to Bach is ...

"Zum Nutzen und Gebrauch der lehrbegierigen musikalischen Jugend" ist es gedacht, aber auch zum "besonderen Zeitvertreib derer, die in diesem Studio schon habil seien". Kein geringer Geltungsanspruch ...

Ferruccio Busoni verehrte Johann Sebastian Bach, und da vor allem dessen polyphones Spiel: Pianist Victor Nicoara spielt Busonis pädagogische Studien zur Polyphonie und weitere Hommagen an Bach ...

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, ...

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 ...

It's the keyboard work that has lasted through the centuries - Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is the aspiring pianist's go-to text. French pianist Hélène Grimaud, showing off the nimble fingerwork in ...

Preludes and Fugues, Movements: Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV552 (from Clavier-I) Jeremy Filsell, Organ Clavier-Übung III, Movements: Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit, BWV669 Choir of Saint Thomas ...

Playing his own selection of pieces from Bach’s monumental work may be heresy, but Anderszewki’s intelligence, lucidity and joy is undeniable It’s four years since Piotr Anderszewski last released a ...

The harpsichordist describes Bach’s Preludes and Fugues as a ‘challenge and a homecoming’. His thoughtful new recording has a sense of the work’s drama but is never wilful nor perverse Harpsichordist ...