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 ...

Il y a ceux qui attendent toute une vie pour enregistrer Bach. A 67 ans, Maurizio Pollini sort son premier disque de Bach consacré au Clavier bien tempéré (Premier Livre, lire critique, p. 44) . Il y ...

I've just ended a year of playing Bach, and it was a no-nonsense deal. Like going hunting with your father-in-law. Every day started with a shouting match in my head. Stop! Intruder! Call the keyboard ...

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 ...

Le Clavier bien tempéré de Jean-Sébastien Bach figure rarement au programme de concerts car ce monument de l’histoire de la musique est redouté par tout pianiste mais également par les auditeurs.

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 ...

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 ...

The keyboard works of The Well-Tempered Clavier sound more novel and luminous 300 years later than in their composer’s day. By Phil Hebblethwaite A camera pans down from high in a church to focus on a ...

Bach wrote four sets he called Clavier-übung, or keyboard practices. The first two and the last one contain some of his most famous harpsichord works now the province of pianists – the Six Partitas, ...

At the beginning of an ambitious series to match Bach’s great organ works to original instruments of his time, this first instalment strikes lucky with an instrument begun in the same year – 1739 – ...