With the release of his latest three CDs, pianist Richard Goode has now recorded all six Bach Partitas for keyboard. Fred Child of Performance Today visited with Goode to talk about each one of these ...

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.

In 1726 - probably the earliest date allowed by the enormous demands of J. S. Bach’s official position in Leipzig for new sacred vocal music - the composer began to write a series of keyboard suites, ...

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 ...

In his new novel, “Gould’s Book of Fish,” Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan memorably labels Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” as “that vile anthem of contemporary retailing.” Is Bach’s Partita in D Minor ...

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 ...

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.

Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: Christmas at St George’s Windsor and ...

Separate period instruments – and baroque bows – for the partitas and sonatas add drama to Zehetmair’s immense subtlety Thomas Zehetmair was only 21 when he recorded Bach’s solo violin sonatas and ...

Talking, debating and listening are skills we can all learn, particularly in the light of current global conflicts. The ...