
Pierre Hantaï approaches Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 as a thinking virtuoso and offers plenty of food for thought. The A major fugue’s climbing motives,
The high technical and artistic standards cellist Peter Bruns has set in other recordings are evident throughout this release. For example, in the “Arpeggione” sonata’s
The title and repertoire suggest a kind of modified Piano’s Greatest Hits with Garrick Ohlsson at the keyboard. It’s only when you break the shrink-wrap
Joseph Szigeti was in his early 60s when he recorded Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas in 1955/56 for the Bach Guild. Though past his technical
As a Bach pianist Jennifer Lim seems to be able to bend, clarify, and control polyphony to her will at any given tempo, and for
My enthusiasm for Volume 1 in the Bach Collegium Japan’s cycle of Bach’s cantatas continues here in a program that inludes a work (BWV 131)
Fretwork’s decidedly retro approach to Bach’s much-arranged and incessantly fiddled-with unfinished “last” opus is among the simplest and therefore most effective renditions on disc. This
If you have yet to acquire a set of these important Bach works for violin and harpsichord you’re faced with a somewhat bewildering array of
Bach’s Violin and Harpsichord Sonatas hardly suffer from a lack of fine recordings. Yet these absorbing performances stand out for their intellectual and emotional vigor,
These lively, heartfelt performances by Antonio Janigro and I Solisti di Zagreb certainly have withstood the test of time. From the onset, in Concerto No.