Before his much-anticipated October 23 Carnegie Hall recital, of music by Bach, Beethoven, and Schumann, the magisterial Jewish American pianist Murray Perahia is releasing a new CD on Sony Classical ...

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 ...

Lots of performers play Bach on the modern piano. No one does it better than Murray Perahia, whose command of sonorities, dynamics and phrasing makes you hear the piano as an ideal Baroque instrument.

Outrageous, grotesque, absurd, insane: These are all adjectives that suggest a certain, even fix, point of departure. If that point is Bach’s Sixth Partita as performed by, say, Angela Hewitt, Murray ...

At first blush, Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin played on the humble mandolin might be akin to making a Rusty Nail with single-malt scotch. A successful performance will require, at the ...

It is extraordinary that of over a thousand pieces written by J S Bach only about a dozen were published in his lifetime. The pieces he chose as his opus 1 – although published in 1731 when he was in ...

Gandelsman has been celebrated for playing a wide variety of music, from purely classical to the most inventive contemporary pieces. He takes on Bach's complex sonatas and partitas on his new album.

"If you really want to have what I think is a special experience, find yourself two hours and 45 minutes during which you can listen to all six Partitas at once — just put them on, lie on the sofa or ...

Vladimir Ashkenazy's new recording of the Bach Partitas - a follow-up to his 2006 account of "The Well-Tempered Clavier" - boasts many of the familiar virtues of the pianist's youth. The playing is ...