On Thursday and Friday evening at Baker-Baum Concert Hall, the La Jolla Music Society presented violinist Midori in the six Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin by Johann Sebastian Bach.
In October, the hugely popular musical duo TwoSet Violin announced they would be hanging up their bows. On social media, the pair posted: “This will be the last piece of content we post as TwoSet ...
Why is Bach's violin music so beautiful? Superstar violinist Ray Chen has spent time in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic recording a new album of Bach's music. He talks about the Bach that ...
In one of Bach's better known cantatas, No. 140, Wachet auf — "Wake up!" — Hahn introduces a duet with soprano Christine Schafer as the eager bride and baritone Matthias Goerne as Jesus, the soul's ...
Rachel Barton Pine records Bach's solo violin partitas and sonatas at St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Chicago Violinist Rachel Barton Pine’s playing isn’t the only sound you hear on her new ...
Music for unaccompanied violin reminds me of the “challenging” category on the sushi menu. It’s not for everybody. There’s a certain stark nakedness about it. Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili ...
In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...
CAMBRIDGE — Bach’s Six Cello Suites are the beating, deep-souled heart of the cello repertoire. Cellists do not just perform the Suites and move on. They study them, internalize them, and map their ...