If Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote a dull piece of music, I've not yet heard it. And even if there is a workaday piece or two lurking within his 300 keyboard sonatas, you certainly won't find it on ...

In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88), second son of Johann Sebastian, was no pale imitation of his father. He had ideas of his own, as the bristling, thoughtful and imaginative playing on this disc ...

In her accompanying essay to this release (there is no specific biography), the Danish pianist Elisabeth Nielsen claims that the unifying factor in her programme of Bach, Schumann and Prokofiev is ...

Can classical music performance be controversial? Most often, this is true only when a performance departs from contemporary (or not-so-contemporary) conventional wisdom, which often relies on both a ...

The year 1685 was certainly good for music. After all, Johann Sebastian Bach, composer of St. Matthew Passion and B Minor ...

More info: Biss is in the final year of a three-summer residency performing Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas at the Aspen Music Festival. Three virtuosic musicians are taking deep dives into single ...

British pianist Danny Driver uncovers the impetuous mood swings, curious key changes and whiplash stops and starts that define C.P.E. Bach's... Calculated Instability: The Pioneering Sonatas Of C.P.E.