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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

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 ...

Music lovers, and especially Bach aficionados, will have a rare opportunity on Sunday, Nov. 13, when noted keyboardist Carsten Schmidt plays the whole of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, ...

I don’t think that Sviatoslav Richter, still less Sir András Schiff, would have reminded me of Kurt Cobain at this point. Not even, maybe, Edwin Fischer, whose pioneering 1930s recordings set a ...

Jazzing the classics is something that has been done many times, usually in ways that trivialize both kinds of music. But because pianist-composer John Lewis` love of Bach is genuine and linked to his ...

Live at BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall: Sir András Schiff performs Book 1 of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier. The master pianist plays nearly two hours of music that for many represents both ...

I don’t think the scholars have yet argued that, among the ear-stretching range of moods and effects encompassed across these 24 pieces, comes a spooky anticipation of Seattle grunge. Listening to ...