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 ...

Lots of performers play Bach on the modern piano. No one does it better than Murray Perahia, whose command of sonorities, dynamics and phrasing makes you hear the piano as an ideal Baroque instrument.

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 ...

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 ...

Mahan Esfahani, whose new album, “Bach: The Six Partitas,” was just released on Hyperion, wants to restore the harpsichord to the classical mainstream, where its position was usurped two centuries ago ...

These performances of Bach’s solo works are elegant and persuasive – balancing a modern tone with an alert awareness of period style To celebrate his 50th birthday, Renaud Capuçon has recorded Bach’s ...

It is extraordinary that of over a thousand pieces written by J S Bach only about a dozen were published in his lifetime. The pieces he chose as his opus 1 – although published in 1731 when he was in ...