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 ...

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 ...

The music world has scholarly performers and performing scholars - and then a smaller number of true multiple threats. Davitt Moroney, who teaches at UC Berkeley, is one of those. Moroney, 62, has ...

ASPEN – She stands quietly in the middle of the stage at the 2,050-seat Benedict Music Tent, looking mildly amused. A long ponytail drapes over the shoulder that does not have a violin tucked above it ...

Vladimir Ashkenazy's new recording of the Bach Partitas - a follow-up to his 2006 account of "The Well-Tempered Clavier" - boasts many of the familiar virtues of the pianist's youth. The playing is ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...