
Bernard Labadie’s excellent transcription of the Goldberg Variations makes fascinating listening. In arranging the work for strings and continuo (including harpsichord and theorbo), the variations
Besides the first rate performances, recorded in 1982 and now reissued as part of Harmonia Mundi’s Bach Edition, this classic traversal of Bach’s “Little Organ
Evgeni Koroliov’s recordings of The Art of Fugue (for Tacet) and the Goldberg Variations (for Hänssler) have placed him in the forefront of today’s Bach
As part of John Eliot Gardiner’s audacious and now much scaled-back “Bach Pilgrimage” project–to perform and record during this anniversary year of the composer’s death,
With so many excellent period-instrument performances available of these popular works, it might be somewhat unusual to find listeners who still prefer to hear readings
Yehudi Menuhin was still in his teens when he made the first complete recordings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for HMV. While Menuhin remade the
Here’s yet another recording of an organ that the jacket notes claim to be one of the world’s largest. This time the declaimer is necessary,
My comments vis-à-vis Artur Schnabel’s complete Bach output can be found in my ClassicsToday.com review of Doremi 7740. Hot on the heels of that release,
What more do you say about a musician who’s already stormed and conquered the world of Baroque violin repertoire and performance? About to embark on
The teenaged Yehudi Menuhin’s Bach concerto recordings were first transferred to CD by EMI in the late 1980s and have also surfaced on numerous independent