March 8 marks the 300th birthday of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the second surviving son of Johann Sebastian and the most extraordinary of the four Bach sons who became composers. During and shortly ...
The idea of performing Johann Sebastian Bach in bulk did not originate in Chicago, of course. But Stephen Alltop appears to have cornered the local market on that particular herculean endeavor. Alltop ...
On Saturday night in GBH’s Calderwood Studio, pianist Jeremy Denk performed the complete Book 1 of Bach’s beloved ‘Well-Tempered Clavier.’ Bach would have been amazed by Saturday night’s performance ...
In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...
Edward Aldwell, who died Sunday at 68, was a pianist and authority on the music of Bach, as well as a teacher of music theory and piano at the Mannes College of Music in New York and the Curtis ...
Ars Lyrica Houston's harpsichordist and conductor Matthew Dirst collaborates with The Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar and The San Francisco Early Music Society (co-presenter) to offer an ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Keyboard Conversations, featuring concert pianist Jeffrey Siegel opens the ...
Series of complete works of composers are encountered much more frequently on recordings than in concert halls. But last year WFMT radio presented a series of live events encompassing all of Johann ...
Pianists were shell-shocked when the tidal wave of period performance practices hit. The belief that musicians should play in the style used when individual works were written automatically excluded ...
Organist Peter Krasinski shares his connection to Johann Sebastian Bach, the historic Hook Organ and how the acoustics while ...