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 ...

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 ...

While some generous expressive effects are occasionally overdone, the fugues are projected with verve and crispness, and show Suzuki at his best This month BIS is releasing two discs of JS Bach’s ...

There is nothing extravagant, idiosyncratic or exceptional about this recording except its infallible good taste. Harpsichordist Masato Suzuki, who serves as principal conductor of the Bach Collegium ...

The Preludes inspire Crossland's best work. I especially enjoyed the C major's intelligent dynamic build and subtle shadings, the D major's perky left-hand accents, the G major's skittish yet ...

Music is such a deeply personal experience, and I hope readers don't mind the ultra-personal approach here. Around 50 years ago, in one of many piano exams, I had to play the first Prelude and Fugue ...

Live at BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall: Sir András Schiff performs Book 1 of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier. The master pianist plays nearly two hours of music that for many represents both ...

Maurizio Pollini is no stranger to Bach, and Bach is no stranger to Pollini’s concert programmes. But this complete recording of the first book of the is the great Italian pianist’s first Bach ...

As a conductor, Barenboim has always seen himself as an heir to the great performing tradition of the first half of the 20th century, citing Wilhelm Furtwängler as his greatest influence. That same ...

The two volumes of Bach’s The Well-Temperd Clavier together represent one of Western music’s greatest achievements. Once described as the ‘Old Testament’ of the keyboard repertoire, these two ...