

The third release from pianist Stephen Beus on the Centaur label offers a quirky playlist for which the topic of dance purports to be the

Bach’s Goldberg Variations may seem like a proverbial drop in the bucket for a pianist known for tackling Sorabji’s Opus Clavicembalisticum, the complete Godowsky/Chopin Etudes,

American collectors may have encountered violinist and composer Wolfgang Marschner (1926-2020) via his live Berg Chamber Concerto with Paul Hindemith conducting (Orfeo), or in the

Between leaving the Budapest String Quartet in 1944 and rejoining them in 1956, violinist Alexander Schneider pursued an independent freelance career. One major project from

Bach’s Goldberg Variations figured prominently in the late Peter Serkin’s career, both in concert and on disc. He recorded it for RCA in 1965 at

Every release of the St. Gallen Bach cantata cycle-in-the-making is

There is no shortage of Bach organ recitals–and yet it never gets old. Orchestras may sound increasingly identical so that one band or another tackling

This recording, “Bach to the Future”, made by the titular organist at Notre Dame, Olivier Latry, is the last to have been made on the

“The Melancholic Bach” brings together bits and pieces from Johann Sebastian’s output–excerpted, newly combined, and arranged for viola da braccio and harpsichord–which exude, more or

Alexandra Papastefanou’s captivating Bach pianism is hard to sum up in words. Certain aspects of harpsichord technique inform her approach in regard to varied articulations,
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