Pianist Konstantin Lifschitz plays two Preludes and Fugues from Book Two of the Well-Tempered Klavier by Bach: the Prelude and Fugue No. 11 in F Major, and the Prelude and Fugue No. 12 in F Minor.
This review has been updated. See note below. András Schiff is the Master. Wednesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, he played the first book of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier.” A book it is. A Bach ...
It’s one of the beloved, enduring pieces in the classical canon. And as you’d wish for any timeless work of art, it’s been given the modern-day treatment in a brilliantly offbeat way. In the video ...
On a sunny Wednesday afternoon in March, the light through Trinity Episcopal Cathedral’s stained-glass windows is a cool, heathered blue. The building’s dark wood interior muffles the sounds of ...
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 ...
Angela Hewitt has made her reputation as a Bach specialist, and the President’s Piano Series audience sat down to her opening Bach set with an air of excited expectancy. Here were the first 12 of the ...
Bach in the rain, and a musical wedding day moment unlikely to be forgotten… A few years ago, just moments before a wedding was about to take place in Wiltshire, southwest England, heavy rain hit.
A modern composition technique championed by 20th century composers may have been presaged two centuries earlier by Johann Sebastian Bach. Host Liane Hansen speaks with Eric Altschuler, who writes in ...
NEW YORK — It looks like a typical pop-up shop: the spare but cool neon signs, the bare whitewashed walls, the table up front for sales. But the offerings at this temporary storefront in the heart of ...