The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Pythagoras thought the cosmos was all about numbers and their relationships, an idea that always struck my liberal-arts mind as dry and cold and impossibly lacking ...

English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806: I. Prélude English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806: II. Allemande English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806: III. Courante I English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV ...

On one side of 1st Street in downtown L.A., Einstein looms large. On the other side, Socrates. Who can possibly walk among them? Why, Bach, of course. Wednesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the ...

Bach’s “English Suites” are among his most diverting music for the keyboard, where a delight in patterns and brilliant finger-work crowds out a severe contrapuntal approach. Bach’s encyclopedic ...

As a little girl, Rochelle Sennet saw a pianist performing on tv, thought it looked cool, and begged her parents for piano lessons. They figured she’d lose interest, as kids often do, but she showed ...

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 ...

Internationally noted harpsichordist Carsten Schmidt continues his multi-year project of performing all of J. S. Bach’s hundreds of compositions for keyboard. This year he offers two programs of the ...

Most readers are probably familiar with Ken Vandermark as he has made quite a stir in the last couple of years. The MacArthur Foundation awarded him one of their genius awards and his weekly ...

Although Zhu-Xiao Mei’s somewhat under-the-radar engagement with Bach’s keyboard output has so far encompassed the Goldberg Variations, Well-Tempered Clavier, Art of Fugue, Partitas, French Suites, ...