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 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 ...

A new pianistic voice, the Russian-German Igor Levit (b. 1987) boldly entered the recording scene last year with late Beethoven sonatas. Here he moves back to Bach and is equally stimulating. Every ...

This is Christian Tetzlaff’s third recording of Bach’s solo Sonatas and Partitas, the pinnacle of the violin repertoire, but don’t fear that he has run out of things to say. His sleeve note explaining ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Even pianists who play Bach’s Partitas on a modern grand might envy Richard Egarr his 1991 copy of a ...