Featuring a choir, soloists, and the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, SC Bach is set to present its namesake's Christmas ...

Gandelsman has been celebrated for playing a wide variety of music, from purely classical to the most inventive contemporary pieces. He takes on Bach's complex sonatas and partitas on his new album.

Through his work with the innovative string quartet Brooklyn Rider and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, violinist Johnny Gandelsman has established himself as a performer of wide-ranging interests and ...

When violinist Michelle Makarski approached her friend, the pianist Keith Jarrett about playing some Johann Sebastian Bach sonatas, recording those works wasn’t necessarily in their initial plans. In ...

Soovin Kim remembers studying Johann Sebastian Bach’s B Minor Partita, BWV 1002, for solo violin when he was 10 or 11 years — and his reaction predicted a lifetime surrounded by the music of Bach. “It ...

Despite the title please note that Steven Isserlis plays these sonatas on a cello, not a viola da gamba. We may miss the plangent quality of the instrument of Bach and Handel’s day, but Isserlis ...

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This week's From the Top, hosted by pianist Peter Dugan, celebrates the various ways music has created community in the lives of the featured young artists. The episode features a strong number of ...

A. For me, the challenge is trying to maintain the same concentration throughout the whole two hours and the only way to achieve that is through practice. I personally think that going over the ...

Right from the opening notes the listener is thrown. Instead of measured grandeur, the Adagio of the Sonata No.1 feels rushed and restless, with almost too much to say. Violinist Gil Shaham has taken ...