Playing his own selection of pieces from Bach’s monumental work may be heresy, but Anderszewki’s intelligence, lucidity and joy is undeniable It’s four years since Piotr Anderszewski last released a ...

On the title page of “The Well-Tempered Clavier,” Bach’s monumental keyboard collection of preludes and fugues in all the major and minor keys, the composer wrote that he intended it “for the profit ...

It's the keyboard work that has lasted through the centuries - Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is the aspiring pianist's go-to text. French pianist Hélène Grimaud, showing off the nimble fingerwork in ...

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movements: C, BWV846 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Emerson Quartet (Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movements ...

The harpsichordist describes Bach’s Preludes and Fugues as a ‘challenge and a homecoming’. His thoughtful new recording has a sense of the work’s drama but is never wilful nor perverse Harpsichordist ...

The preludes and fugues that make up Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” operate on multiple levels at once — they’re a compilation of techniques for keyboard writing, a polemic on the subject of tuning ...

Accessibility of knowledge was crucial to the Enlightenment. That ethos was embodied in the celebrated Encyclopédie of Diderot and D’Alembert, the first of its seventeen volumes appearing in 1751, the ...

Keith Jarrett and Johann Sebastian Bach go back a long way. Between 1722 and 1742, Bach composed two sets of preludes and fugues in all twenty-four major and minor keys, written for keyboard; the ...

This review has been updated. See note below. András Schiff is the Master. Wednesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, he played the first book of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier.” A book it is. A Bach ...

Jazzing the classics is something that has been done many times, usually in ways that trivialize both kinds of music. But because pianist-composer John Lewis` love of Bach is genuine and linked to his ...

Some 250 years after the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, four noted classical pianists tackle the composer's "The Well-Tempered Clavier," a collection of keyboard pieces often referred to as the "Old ...