Who needs a continuo? The Flautist has both melody and bass covered... You usually hear Bach's beautiful flute sonatas with a solo flute, and then accompanying basso continuo (harpsichord, chamber ...
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of the great Johann Sebastian, didn't write much for organ. But there's such an idiosyncratically cheeky brio to what he did that it's well worth exploring. Ton Koopman ...
Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, ...
This historic organ (47/III), tuned at A466 in the original organ builder’s own temperament, was reconstructed in 2004-7 and seems a perfect instrument for these sonatas. The recording is very well ...
Video of the day: Víkingur Ólafsson's captivating Bach Gramophone Thursday, October 24, 2019 A mesmerising new film of our newly-crowned Artist of the Year Víkingur Ólafsson, playing the Andante from ...
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542 "Great"; Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582; Prelude and Fugue in E flat major BWV 552 "St Anne"; Prelude and Fugue in e minor BWV 548 "Wedge"; Toccata, ...
NEWBURYPORT — St. Paul’s Episcopal Church music director Mark Meyer will offer an organ concert Sunday at 4:30 p.m. The program will include a variety of music, including Bach, a Mendelssohn organ ...
Mahan Esfahani, whose new album, “Bach: The Six Partitas,” was just released on Hyperion, wants to restore the harpsichord to the classical mainstream, where its position was usurped two centuries ago ...
Lunchtime organ recitals in the Unitarian Church return for Horsham Music Circle’s 84th season with the first on Tuesday, October 7 at 1pm.