"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 ...

Las 'Sonatas y Partitas para violín solo' de Bach representan el sueño de todo gran violinista que se precie; sin embargo, a la vez personifica una enorme pesadilla para la mayoría de ellos, al aunar ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the grim pandemic nadir of September 2020, violinist Soovin Kim stepped out on an empty stage at the New England Conservatory in Boston and performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas ...

Richard Goode is back for one last conversation with Fred Child about the Bach Partitas for keyboard. Goode has been our guide since last week through these six seminal works.

*** J.S. Bach, 6 Partitas, performed by pianist Jean Louis Steuerman (Philips): Brazilian-born Steuerman, one of the winners of the 1972 J.S. Bach Competition in Leipzig, apparently likes his Bach ...

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, ...

Erik Satie cocked a snook by labelling his first published work "Op 62". For most composers, however, the choice of music for an Op 1 is a serious matter. It was certainly a major statement when, in ...

Viktoria Mullova's gradual evolution as a Baroque violinist has now reached a crucial stage. In days gone by, as on her early Nineties recording for Philips (475 7451), she played Bach on her famous ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Even pianists who play Bach’s Partitas on a modern grand might envy Richard Egarr his 1991 copy of a ...