In a typical Bach fugue, such as the ‘Gigue Fugue’, the tune to be imitated would be much longer than the four notes that begin 'London’s Burning’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Its first prelude is now very well known - and incidentally made up entirely of a chord sequence, no melody, exactly as Bach’s hero Vivaldi might have done. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Sex Pistols’ songs are no more discordant than, say, ‘Lovely yet ungrateful swain’, a Vauxhall Gardens song of Johann Christian Bach. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the music would be classical: Brahms, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, or Bach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This melodic symmetry had not been a noticeable feature of the more onward- flowing, unpredictable tunes of Bach and Handel, whose phrases were so often guided by the metre of the words they set. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Or attempting to play Bach on the organ. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The other great composers of Western music lived during other periods: Bach and Handel were Baroque era composers, for example; Brahms and Wagner, Romantic53 ; and Ravel and Debussy, Impressionist. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The staggering fact is that Bach could improvise fugues like this at the keyboard, and often did. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At the climax of its monumental opening chorus, with two adult choirs and a double-sized orchestra already in full sway, Bach introduces a new, majestically slower tune on top of the entire structure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Nothing could be further from the omnipotent, benevolent creative force of Handel’s oratorios or Bach’s cantatas and Passions - yet Handel was still alive, just, and Bach had only died five years earlier. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My parents went up for the ceremony in the Juilliard chapel, which, I gathered, was stark in word and dress, but rich in Bach and Mozart, thanks to Caroline’s school friends. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she played a selection from Bach, I’d point to the correct composer, then once again touch the color blue on my board. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart made music in the moment, for the moment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

You may also have heard some Bach fugues or inventions; there are no better examples of counterpoint than these. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It took a German organ builder and friend of J. S. Bach, Gottfried Silbermann, to see the piano’s potential and - with help and advice from Bach - to begin manufacturing pianos. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Bach’s Lutheran Christianity, unlike the Papal Catholicism with which Galileo Galilei battled, was at ease with scientific investigation and the widening education of its laity - indeed, it positively encouraged it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His heroes, notwithstanding the underrated John Field, were Mozart and Bach, composers in whose music dignity was everything. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Franck and Saint-Saens were both expert organists, and learning the organ, then as now, meant learning Bach inside out. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Bach and Handel, the two musical giants of the eighteenth century, were born just eighty miles and four weeks apart and yet they never met. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When they came for me, I was rehearsing Bach's St. Matthew Passion, but even in German I understood nothing except the language of music. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For the first hundred years after his death, though, Bach was a forgotten, unperformed composer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Rusty scales and triads led to first attempts at “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” that eventually gave way to basic etudes until I was playing Bach suites. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beethoven, inspired by study of and admiration for Handel and Bach, merely had the idea of appending to a symphony something you might expect in an oratorio. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The sense of order out of chaos that was ushered in by ‘well- tempered’ keyboards would have appealed to Bach enormously. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Posterity eventually rewards those, like Bach and Handel, who can absorb and repackage the currents and fashions of their times, giving the resulting collage a distinctive voice of their own along the way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The great change in attitude of which Voltaire was a supreme philosophical weathervane coincided with a rapid reshaping of music after the deaths of Bach and Handel. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The king had his court musicians, one of whom was Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel, devise a tune specially, one they mischievously knew was practically impossible to turn into a fugue without creating horrible dissonances. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

J. S. Bach wrote his famous "Well-Tempered Klavier" in part as a plea and advertisement to switch to a well temperament system. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Bach was able to do this, and what emerged in the current were primordia in music. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we listen to the music of Bach, or Gershwin, or Sting, or Alicia Keys, we are being taken on a journey of chords, a ‘progression’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We, more than any previous generation, can readily identify with Bach's request. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But large choruses, soloists and orchestra were bread and butter to Bach in his Passions, Handel in his oratorios, Mozart in his Requiem and Haydn in his grand choral works. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was J. S. Bach who presented, in around 1722, the most conclusive evidence that an Equal Temperament system could work. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Harry had told me that Bach should be played very softly, and very loudly, to exaggerate the phrasing, because the pieces themselves are so ordered that the emotion needs to come through in the playing. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

To Bach, the point of music was to glorify God, to reflect upon, interpret and celebrate the meaning and mystery of the scriptures. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If the doleful experience of cultural conflict on Earth were the galactic standard, it seems we would already have been destroyed, perhaps with some passing admiration expressed for Shakespeare, Bach and Vermeer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bach suite and the Shostakovich had both flown out of me like never before, like my fingers were just an extension of the strings and bow. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas Bach undoubtedly absorbed Italian and French flavours of style, he was nevertheless inescapably a north German composer whose music would take a century to be reintroduced into the mainstream. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For Lutheran Pietists like Bach, illuminating the Gospel was paramount, as were metaphors of light and transparency. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A Bach invention, a Brahms symphony, and a Beatles song are different forms in different genres, and at first they may sound as if they have nothing in common. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Counterpoint, to Bach, was the ultimate set of laws in music; obeying these laws was for him something beautiful, uplifting and reassuring. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Or in a dorm room bed with two people instead of one, while Bach played on the chintzy stereo, orchestrating the fugue? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Bach’s interest in counterpoint, though, was not about putting haughty monarchs in their place, nor about solving puzzles and codes for the sake of it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She was pounding her way through a song by Bach, and I felt sorry for Bach because Miss Lulu’s heart was clearly not involved with the music at all. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He’d explained that Bach’s music has a measured grace, an inherent tranquility and lightness, and that it is precise, almost mathematical. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

J. S. Bach was probably the cleverest composer who ever lived, but he gave his performers almost no detailed instructions as to how they might play his sublime music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Bach stayed firmly grounded, throughout his life, within the Lutheran tradition and the region of Thuringia-Saxony where he had grown up. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Together with the Hannover Orchestra, we've decided on four selections from Bach's St. Matthew Passion. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Bach could layer three, four, five or even six simultaneous parts on top of each other, all using variants of the basic theme. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A Child of Our Time intersperses quasi-operatic narrative passages with arrangements of African-American spirituals, as Bach had done with Lutheran hymn-chorales in his oratorios on the passion and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For the first time since the death of Bach, the music of the moment seemed to be attempting to portray more accurately the sadness and anxiety that people were actually experiencing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Bach year these people, like thousands of others, tallied raptors along the four migratory flyways in North America—the Atlantic, Mississippi, Central, and Pacific flyways. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The twelve-note octave as we know it became a firm fixture of Western music after the publication in 1722 of J. S. Bach’s forty-eight preludes and fugues for the 'Well-Tempered Keyboard’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Surviving organs and other instruments from Bach’s time indicate that the average pitch was lower then than it is today, so his music is mostly performed at A = 415 Hz. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Vivaldi’s Italian innovations, honed to sensuous perfection in the carnival city of Venice, travelled north across the Alps and found a fan in Lutheran north-east Germany: Johann Sebastian Bach. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Ainsley plays a Bach sonata, which, it turns out, is a hauntingly beautiful cello piece. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Bach was a kind of expression I could connect with. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Bach’s and Handel’s rich palette of chords was stripped back to just a handful. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I learned to tell the difference between Beethoven and Bach, between a sonata and a concerto. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

For Bach, this breathtaking moment of musical shock and awe is not music for music’s sake; it is a manifestation of divine intervention. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But for all this, Bach’s Passions do not feel like the beginning of some new movement. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Before I sent in my application, I had to practice every spare moment with Professor Christie to fme-tune the Shostakovich concerto and the two Bach suites. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got chills as he introduced my brother and said that he would be playing Bach’s “Partita no. 1 in B-flat.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The young brothers Bach, though, did not have the kind of natural genius required to lead a new movement out of its initial rebellious stage into the mainstream. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Though he might not have recognised the label, Bach’s faith falls within the movement known as German Pietism, which reached its high-water mark in his lifetime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One time on maneuvers Billy was playing “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” with music by Johann Sebastian Bach and words by Martin Luther. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now,” she says, “the prelude to Johann Sebastian Bach’s hauntingly beautiful Cello Sonata Number One in G.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

But the ultimate survivor was Bach himself, considered something of a fuddy-duddy by his clever, forward-looking sons and deemed a peerless, timeless genius by the 21st century. Critic’s Notebook: Bach at One and Pipes at One at Trinity’s St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-10-07T20:05:50Z

It’s like the difference between Bach and the blues. Inspiration Made Concrete in ‘Self-Taught Genius’ Exhibition 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

There is no violinist I would rather hear play Bach — well, anything, really — than Mr. Tetzlaff, who can be relied upon to rethink every last note of everything he plays. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Bach half was the Double Harpsichord Concerto in F major, with Koopman and Mathot playing side by side at their twin keyboards. Review: Koopman, SSO go for Baroque 2011-05-14T17:08:05Z

Where the role calls for expansion, a Bach ricercata after Webern sparseness, she was small scaled, lost against a forest of dancers. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at Koch Theater - Review 2011-09-18T22:13:40Z

The challenges of signing music multiply when it comes to polyphonic works like the Passion oratorios of Bach, with their complex tapestries of orchestral and vocal counterpoint and declamatory recitatives. Making Music Visible: Singing in Sign 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

This is in stark contrast to the interpretations of Bach keyboard works we have grown used to, in which we prize, above all, clarity and precision. Music Review: Piotr Anderszewski’s Bach Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-09T22:11:03Z

Because you have to have five voices at the same time with Bach. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z

Handel’s eight suites for harpsichord, published in 1720, haven’t always gotten as much attention or respect among performers as the keyboard works of Couperin, Rameau or, especially, Bach. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Instead, she remembers listening to Bach with her father. The gospel according to Diane Birch 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z

And for his concerts this time around — part of a barely advertised mini festival called “Spirit” — he has taken up a pair of monumental works: Messiaen’s “Turangalîla-Symphonie” and Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion.” Review: The Philharmonic’s ‘Passion’ Is a Surprising Achievement 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

We think of her, however, primarily in terms of Mozart, Strauss and the excesses of Baroque opera, so the choice of Bach seems perverse. Bach: Cantatas and Arias ? review 2011-03-10T21:30:00Z

Apples and kilts and changing costume color schemes are used as gimmickry; the Baroque music, by Bach and Wassenaer, is used exploitatively — and on Wednesday was considerably overamplified. Dance Review: BalletX’s ‘Last Glass,’ at the Joyce, Has Music by Beirut 2013-08-08T22:45:44Z

My frustrations with Mr. Lang also apply to his latest recording, which includes two accounts of Bach’s monumental “Goldberg” Variations. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

Marsh, 53, is a leader in this field — as singer, organist, conductor, academic and, as of this fall, the new artistic director of the Washington Bach Consort. Perspective | Early music, fresh start: A new leader for Washington Bach Consort 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Nigel Kennedy performing solo Bach at the Proms on 6 August. The Proms 2011: week three in review 2011-08-10T15:32:29Z

It may feel as if the world doesn’t need yet another recording of Bach’s solo works for violin or cello. When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

A handwritten composition by Johann Sebastian Bach being displayed in Weimar, Germany. Howard Goodall's top 10 music books 2013-02-06T13:47:13Z

There are seats for only 234 people, and the place looked full for Mr. Goode’s program of Bach and Schubert on Thursday. Richard Goode Plays Bach and Schubert 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Hewitt is nearing the end of her Bach Odyssey at the Y, a multiyear survey of the composer’s complete keyboard works. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Reviewing the recital, which included works by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and Bartok, The New York Times said that Ms. Ajemian “played with fine taste and fine perception.” Anahid Ajemian, Violinist and New-Music Champion, Dies at 92 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Bach’s Mass in B Minor, itself a compendium of pieces that Bach put together over a long span near the end of his life. Gaechinger Cantorey brings a new name and spellbinding sound to Disney Hall 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Police didn't release how Bach was killed, and an autopsy is pending. Murder charges expected in slaying of Portage woman 2011-09-19T11:16:00Z

His recent work Black Horizon uses one of her favourite piano pieces, a Bach melody. Artist of the week 80: Idris Khan 2010-03-25T13:25:00Z

Bach at One events are framed as services, including a brief prayer and a reading of poems. Music Review: Trinity Choir and Baroque Orchestra?s Bach at One - Review 2012-01-03T23:20:10Z

Wendy Carlos’s seminal synthesizer album “Switched-On Bach” led to her collaborations with Stanley Kubrick on “A Clockwork Orange” and “The Shining.” Female Composers Are Trying to Break Film’s Sound Barrier 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Afterward, the mansion’s resident Brooklyn Baroque ensemble performs works by Bach and others with the tenor Timothy Hodges at its holiday concert from 4 to 6 p.m. Spare Times for Dec. 13-19 2013-12-12T23:38:45Z

And the most interesting question in the book — how the discovery of a lost Bach cantata might play out today — is, despite all the pages devoted to it, basically glossed over. The worst of Bach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

It may seem that Field and Blanchett are collaborating in a topical tale of crime and punishment, which the debate about the relevance of Bach’s behavior to his canonical status recapitulates in miniature. One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

Stephen Layton conducts the lineup, which also features works for solo organ by Bach. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 11-17 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

He’ll be back on the barge, June 24 and 25, with more Bach: the sonatas and partitas for solo violin. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

Sections of “Biophony” closely resemble sections of Mr. King’s “Concerto for Two Violins,” which is also on this program but is set to Bach. Review: In ‘Biophony,’ Ballet Matches Exotic Sound 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

There can be no better reason than Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio.” Music Review: Christmas Oratorio at St. Paul’s Chapel 2013-01-06T22:28:27Z

During his first years in Leipzig, Bach, though busy with teaching and family, usually presented his own works, developing several annual cycles. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

With singers and players mostly drawn from I Fagiolini and the Feinstein Ensemble respectively, this was Bach pared down to absolute basics. St John Passion | Classical review 2010-03-23T23:00:00Z

During our present moment of crisis, Bach provides solace, Beethoven stirs us with resolve and Brahms probes aching emotional ambiguities. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

And the broader mission of the center, to address a public not limited to a taste for Bach, Stravinsky and “The Nutcracker,” had expanded. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

He then died, at 50, just after the release — leaving the two Bach statements as bookends to his career. Glenn Gould’s Bach Score Surfaces, Scrawls and All 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Through eight days I had stood up to performance after performance of monumental, sorrowful Bach works with all my faculties intact. Critic?s Notebook: Bach Passions in Performance for Holy Week 2012-04-04T21:56:13Z

To conduct Bach’s Mass in B minor, the conductor John Eliot Gardiner wrote, “is to be filled with a tremendous sense of anticipation.” What Is John Eliot Gardiner’s Musical Empire Without Him? 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

Also on tap: two “Bach to Bluegrass” programs and a family concert. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for August 2018 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

The ghost of Bach seems to inhabit St. Paul’s Chapel on lower Broadway. Review: Apollo’s Fire Enhances ‘St. John Passion’ 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

And as far as setting her movement to Bach? Who’s Afraid of ‘Goldberg Variations’? Not This Choreographer. 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

In the portrait a bewigged, thickset Bach gazes warily at the viewer while holding the score for one of his canons. A Bach Portrait, Heading to Germany, Gets Musical Send-Off 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

We talked about the Bach suites in an interview almost exactly three years ago, and back then recording them was not on your mind. Does the Pressure of a Pandemic Transform a Cellist’s Bach? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Like Bach, he said, Ives leaves a lot to the performer’s imagination. Taming Ives With Head, Heart and Humor 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z

“Bach was never interested in cheap success,” Mr. Schiff wrote, “and his goal was to try to elevate the usually extroverted variations onto a hitherto unknown artistic and spiritual level.” Music Review: The Honens Winner Minsoo Sohn Performs at Zankel Hall 2012-10-09T22:01:37Z

What was needed was some sorting-out of the various Bachs and their mutual relationships. Review: Vox Luminis Explores Bach’s Family Tree 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Of Before Bach’s 13 concerts, I caught eight, and they were uniformly excellent in execution if not all completely to my taste. English Ensembles Crown a Festival of Early Music 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

The repertory will offer Bach, including, over several years, the complete organ works, but also strong representations of Bach’s contemporaries. After Five Years of Bach, Trinity Church Takes On Handel 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

That started what Whitehead called an “archaeological expedition” — searching for the hymns and plainchants Bach intended to set but that have since disappeared or gone out of fashion. Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kremer did little to indicate that the work was over, and though he left a moment between the Silvestrov and the Bach, there was no applause. Music Review: Gidon Kremer at White Light Festival at Tully Hall - Review 2011-10-24T21:15:05Z

Indeed, in the second half of the 18th century, the name "Bach" was almost exclusively associated with the initials "CPE". CPE Bach: like father, like son 2011-02-24T22:35:01Z

Mr. Bell leads Beethoven’s tight Symphony No. 8 from the concertmaster’s chair; duets with Pamela Frank in Bach’s D minor Concerto for Two Violins; and takes the solo bow in Tchaikovsky’s familiar Violin Concerto. Classical Music Listings for March 18-24 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Bach’s Goldberg Variations, long considered the quintessential masterpiece for keyboard. Irish pianist John O’Conor continues to show he’s a master of Beethoven 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

She nonetheless marketed the festival not as buying a ticket to hear, say, Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" or the Malian singer Rokia Traore but as "really buying a ticket to yourself." Lincoln Center artistic director Jane Moss conducts surprising successes 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

The “insomnia” of the title refers to the backstory of the music’s composition, that Bach wrote it to help a suffering patron ease off to sleep. Review | Andersson Dance takes on Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

In 2020, Mr. Maul plans to feature Bach societies from around the world. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

“Not only was he a fantastic musician, he was always this magnetic, charismatic personality,” Marc Eisenberg, executive director of the Washington Bach Consort, said Saturday in an interview. J. Reilly Lewis, organist, choral director and Bach authority, dies at 71 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

These missae breves, or short Masses, as Protestant churches used them in Bach’s time, retained only the Kyrie and Gloria of the Roman Catholic Mass, stopping short of the Credo for obvious reasons. Review: Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum Perform Bach’s Lutheran Masses 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Bach initially wrote the sixth suite for a cello with five strings that featured an E string above the A string. Istvan Vardai Plays Bach at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

The main offering, though, was “The Art of Fugue,” which was left incomplete at Bach’s death. Two Pianists Test the Meaning of Virtuosity 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

A church is, of course, a suitably spiritual place to hear Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, one of the most uplifting pieces in the Western canon. Critic?s Notebook: Two ?Passions,? With Two Very Different Effects 2011-04-17T22:14:02Z

Los Angeles Baroque Players Period instrument ensemble plays pieces by Bach, Telemann, et al. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 22-29: Berlioz, Philip Glass and more 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

We owe the Bach suites to him because he’s the one who played each suite in its entirety. Yo-Yo Ma Tries to Bring Us Comfort and Hope 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

But along with the expected Bach, Suzuki's Disney visit made rare forays into Vivaldi and Handel. Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan's impeccable taste shows at Disney Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Brittle and unsettled, the Symphony has a snarl not evident in the sophistication of the Toccata Concertante, and a taut formal unity that seems to look back more to Beethoven than Bach. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

He collected Bach artifacts; as for the rest of us, we collect Bach experiences, and I had just added one to my stash. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

And each would probably have benefited from being juxtaposed with its Bach counterpart, as the works were when they were new. Music Review: Something Borrowed and Something New 2011-05-08T22:19:30Z

What music influenced these and other innovative instrumental compositions by Bach? Classical Music Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Nigel refers to it as a “Mach” piece – a fusion of Mozart and Bach – and intends it as part of a musical trilogy in D minor, which he calls “the saddest of all keys”. Five Easy Pieces at 50: a troubling yet thrilling arrival of a new leading man 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

Butt's virtuosity in the extraordinary flourishes of the solo cadenza was almost nonchalant and, throughout the evening, all his vast authority was imparted with a humility worthy of Bach himself. OAE/Butt – review 2013-03-26T18:19:20Z

Every year Leipzig holds a festival celebrating Bach, who called the German city his home during his later years. Glastonbury in England and Dark Mofo in Tasmania: Global Arts Guide 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

The third set consists entirely of dances, in almost the order standardized by Bach and others. CD reviews: Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s latest Mozart is a missed opportunity 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

“Robert went with a fiddle up to the Matterhorn, and at the top of the Matterhorn he played a Bach sonata.” Luise Rainer, ’30s Star Who Won Back-to-Back Oscars, Dies at 104 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

“It was so many different things,” says Marc Eisenberg, the executive director of the Bach Consort, on the reasons that Marsh emerged as the constituents’ clear choice. Perspective | Early music, fresh start: A new leader for Washington Bach Consort 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

I knew what he meant after hearing Mr. Ma do the whole thing here at St. Nicholas Church, where Bach made music three centuries ago. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

And there is Lauren, inventing a work of Bach that seems more anti-Semitic than almost anything Bach actually wrote. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

So, he added, “Bach will turn back over.” Review: At Mostly Mozart, Joshua Bell Plays a Rejiggered Bach Novelty 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Intimations of Bach and Beethoven emerge, alongside hints of the Brahms to come. Music Review: Steven Isserlis at the 92nd Street Y 2013-01-28T22:31:28Z

Bach will be performed on Baroque period instruments played by early-music specialists. Classical roundup: Guests at the symphony, Schumann's birthday, a Bach cantata 2010-06-03T20:12:00Z

Above everything else, I wanted to underline the richness of Bach’s imagination. Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One) 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Rana returns for a comparatively traditional recital of Bach, Debussy and Beethoven on April 20. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday at the David H. Koch Theater, “Bach Partita,” which American Ballet Theater revived last year, entered the company’s fall repertory in excellent shape. Ballet Theater Performs ‘Bach Partita’ 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

For the concluding movement Barber filters Bach through a contemporary prism in a jazzy, syncopated fugue, whose four voices were cleanly articulated by Mr. Anikushin’s deft touch. Music Review: The Pianist Maxim Anikushin at Carnegie Hall 2012-04-09T20:31:22Z

But he does have a new creation — the choreography for the Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s adaptation of the horror classic, set to a score by Liszt, Schubert and Bach. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Looking ahead: Friday's concert offers more novelties, after an Andrés Díaz cello recital that pairs a Bach Suite and Xi Wang's "Rhapsody." Chamber-music fest: a little dessert, double helping of piano 2011-07-07T19:27:04Z

In keyboard works like the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, Bach anticipated the rhapsodic Romantic fervor of Liszt, even Rachmaninoff. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

So here — unlike in his previous positions at the Lutheran court of Weimar and at Lutheran parishes in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen — Bach was freed from having to continually oblige the church. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Classically trained jazzer Caine takes one of the monoliths of Bach's music – his transcendently beautiful set of 32 variations – making it at turns heartwarming, surprising and funny. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

The author of "Reinventing Bach" will discuss his book at 7:30 p.m. 'Reinventing Bach': multiple variations on a virtuoso composer 2012-09-27T20:18:04Z

True enough he studied with the great French neoclassical composer Darius Milhaud, and began most days by listening to a Bach Brandenburg concerto. The best of Dave Brubeck – in video clips 2012-12-06T11:38:57Z

Two years junior to Bach and Handel, Pisendel wrote in a lighter style, longer on charm than on musical complexity. At Seattle Baroque Orchestra, virtuosity of a collegial kind 2014-01-19T18:23:06Z

It was Partch who said, “There is, thank God, a large segment of our population that never heard of J. S. Bach.” The Berlin Philharmonic Searches for a Messiah 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

Struggle and pathos were in no short supply in two works by Ms. Gubaidulina that openly pay homage to Bach. Review: Bach, Revisited Series Features Ensemble Signal 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

So there had to be a certain frisson for that black-tie, first-night crowd encountering Bach, Vivaldi and Handel against a semi-psychedelic backdrop.  The connection between Gordon Davidson and Neville Marriner, and what it means for modern-day L.A. 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

The pillars of his program were three large pieces by Bach. Young harpsichordist continues to amaze 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

People wonder if it is possible to appreciate, for instance, Bach's St Matthew Passion or Giotto's frescos if you do not share the beliefs that informed their creation. Poster poems: religion 2013-04-12T15:23:10Z

Her music offers glimpses of Haydn, Bach and Beethoven — but taken apart and examined, the way someone might with a clock, then transformed. Review: The Uninhibited Joy of Caroline Shaw’s Music 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

“Fragments” is a new, multiyear series in which Weilerstein plans to pair each of Bach’s six cello suites with new works she commissioned for the project in general, but not for any suite in particular. Review: ‘Fragments’ Proposes a New Kind of Cello Recital 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

This year's Proms have already presented Wagner on period instruments and includes historically informed performances of works by everyone from Monteverdi to Bach. Rodgers and Hammerstein: the Mozarts of the 20th century 2010-08-11T20:45:00Z

But the most explicit tribute to Bach comes roughly five minutes in, when the first-violin soloist plays a scale reminiscent of the broken D major scale that opens the Fifth Brandenburg. Steve Reich Talks About His First Orchestral Work in 30 Years 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

His style was especially well suited to the Bach suites, canonical texts for the instrument, which he recorded on several occasions. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z

So the dynamic contrasts in the Bach, for example, seemed jarring and unnatural. Music Review: A Lang Lang Solo Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-30T21:17:22Z

Bach is my favorite musician and the single largest influence on anything that I write. Not your classic classicist 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Many dozens of free performances of every kind — surf rock, punk cabaret, mandolin orchestra, Bach — fill the city from dawn to nightfall each summer solstice for Make Music New York. A Musical Solstice Spectacle Sprawls Across New York 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Yet Levit produced his devilish speed with even articulation, bringing to mind Glenn Gould’s mature Bach. Review: Igor Levit Takes on a Shostakovich Kaleidoscope 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

The franchise’s theme music will be featured, with what he fondly calls yet another “Goldberg Variations” — a reference to Bach’s 19th-century aria and its 30 iterations. New breed ‘Law & Order’ brings back NYPD detective Stabler 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

She took up singing full-time while studying in Boston in the early eighties, drawing notice first for her precisely expressive accounts of Bach cantatas at Emmanuel Church, under the direction of Craig Smith. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z

"Bach is the music dearest to my heart," Matthews says. Ingrid Matthews says farewell to Seattle Baroque Orchestra 2012-10-04T20:04:07Z

But Weilerstein thinks of it not as “a new approach to Bach,” she said, rather “a celebration of the really disparate voices in contemporary classical music,” with Bach as a common reference point. A Cellist Breaks Music Into ‘Fragments,’ Then Connects Them 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Scholars say Bach was an amiable guy, witty with words and an enthusiastic improviser. CD reviews: Early music on the cutting edge 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

He has already shown precocious mastery in the solo canon, like Bach’s sonatas and partitas. For Classical Music, Spring Was the Season of Solos 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Brahms’s Bach study, as he called the transcription, was evidently meant to retain the same sense of challenge, even strain, as Bach’s contrapuntal tour de force for violin. Review: Inon Barnatan Soldiers Through Hallowed Works at 92nd Street Y 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

Still, they were supportive, and Petersen’s piano teacher exposed her, she recalled, to “everything from Bach to Hindemith.” A Shape-Shifting Opera Singer, With a Debut to Match 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

As an encore, he played the Bourrées from Bach's Third Cello Suite, a moment of sudden austerity that threw the hedonism of the rest of the concert into sharp relief. Prom 26: BBCSSO/Runnicles ? review 2011-08-04T10:13:53Z

There's no popular caricature of the man, as there is of Bach, Mozart or Beethoven. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-28T21:00:00Z

Amazon offered customers a hundred Bach works for free to promote its instant-download service. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

Judith Weir compresses both the melody and harmony of Bach/Stölzel into bright, staccato chords, interspersed with a punching bass motif. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z

Bach poses challenges to all musicians, and they grow the further removed we become from his historical milieu. Review | Washington Bach Consort starts strong but hits a wall in its season finale 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

In the closing Gigue, with its leaping, jumpy fugue theme, Bach seemed to be anticipating pointillist contemporary styles. Noted Pianist Piotr Anderszewski Takes a Break From His Career 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

After checking in, we were free to leave the premises to stroll around Staunton’s bustling downtown and enjoy an hour of virtuoso performances at a Bach festival. In the Shenandoah Valley, Blackburn Inn gives new life to a site with a dark past 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

With Bach, I feel I'm allowed to take his snippet of an idea and play my own games with it, without damaging the original. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

But Martin gives us a biblical meditation rather than a musical drama in the manner of Bach, who alternated passages of urgent recitative and choral outbursts with reflective arias and chorales. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z

In moments like the dark, almost seething opening, the work showed the influence of the composers who preceded Bach, but also how much further he was able to go. Music Review: Before Bach Arrived, Others Led the Way 2011-08-05T22:37:21Z

Bach took the next step in the Sonata No. 6, giving the keyboardist a solo movement, which Mr. Pace played with graceful vitality. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann, Alan Gilbert and Enrico Pace - Review 2011-10-13T22:20:12Z

Bach, who witnessed urban-renewal projects in his native Barcelona, was interested in the city’s efforts to rehabilitate its image as a locus of drug violence and economic inequality. Stranded in Marseille 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Many soloists, on the other hand, never play Bach in recital. Music Review: Murray Perahia at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-26T22:22:02Z

Also on Tuesday morning, in Germany, the St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig, which dates back to 1212, sang the music of Bach, its former leader. In a Season of Boys’ Choirs, a Question: Why No Girls? 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

When the first Bach recording plays, the connection is clear. Review: When Real Life Adds an Unexpected Round to the Fugue 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

But he accepts that music validates divine belief: as he once told a Lutheran bishop after a performance of a Bach cantata, “Anyone who has heard this knows that the faith is true.” Henschel Quartet Offers Solace for Pope Benedict 2010-03-26T16:30:00Z

There were so many musical Bachs during the era that the surname became synonymous with “musician” in central Germany, and they continue to trickle to light. Music Review: An Exploration of the World That Made Bach and That Bach Remade 2011-05-17T21:41:23Z

Cabaret combines with post-Bergian lyricism before Ullmann closes the work with a Bach chorale, under which slowing drum taps suggest fading heartbeats. The Emperor of Atlantis – review 2012-10-09T16:49:30Z

Listening today to that remarkable Bach recording, I understand better what affected me so deeply. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

As a soloist, meanwhile, he acknowledges Bach’s six Cello Suites as his cornerstone: sublime works which fill him with a mixture of fascination, awe and fear. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The two start by gradually stretching the melodic and rhythmic bindings of a movement of Bach's Concerto for Two Harpsichords. John Law/Mark Pringle: This Is ? review 2011-08-11T21:14:00Z

“Maybe it’s that I have new confidence. I wanted to push against the formal structure of Bach. To me, this feels risky.” Who’s Afraid of ‘Goldberg Variations’? Not This Choreographer. 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Basinski’s composition included sustained tones that recalled the “heavy organ” versions of Bach popular in the late 1960s, and hymnlike motifs emerged as the piece turned quieter and more melodic near its end. Review | William Basinski’s tranquil tunes stirred listeners — and got a standing ovation — at U Street Music Hall 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

In this short program, there was room for one of the Bach partitas, or even one of the Ysaye sonatas that Murray recorded in 2012. Review | A violinist veils herself in virtuosity 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

He is one of the towering Bach interpreters of our time. Bach in the hands of a master: András Schiff in Seattle 2012-10-16T15:20:05Z

“Bach didn’t write it for practical performance,” said Karen P. Thomas, artistic director of the choral group Seattle Pro Musica. Mystery Mass: Seattle Pro Musica celebrates Bach’s enigmatic masterpiece in B minor 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

In a recent interview, Ms. Reid added, “What Pablo Casals did for the Bach suites, I feel like Abdul Wadud did for the new generation of cello in jazz.” Abdul Wadud, Cellist Who Crossed Musical Boundaries, Dies at 75 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

But then, whenever Bach used a dance form, it wasn’t intended as a social diversion, either, and the issues of period performance theory and aesthetics that Ms. Turocy discussed were enlightening at every turn. Critic’s Notebook: Catherine Turocy’s Lessons Unlock Early Music’s Meaning 2013-09-03T21:51:27Z

He was also in demand as an interpreter of Bach, and his account of the Evangelist in Hermann Scherchen's recording of the St Matthew Passion in the early 1950s became another classic. Hugues Cu?nod obituary 2010-12-08T19:10:00Z

The set featuring Western instruments and styles was more uneven, though the violinist Mari Kimura’s deconstructions of two Bach melodies had ferociously guttural power. Music Review: Strum, Pluck, Rescue, Rebuild 2011-04-11T21:45:04Z

The pianist Bruce Levingston brings heart-wrenching vulnerability and tenderness to a series of preludes, fugues and fantasies by Bach that form the spiritual nucleus of the CD. Classical Playlist: Schumann, Bach, Prokofiev and More 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Bach, naturally, is the backbone of this festival, where the great Helmuth Rilling conducts Bach's B minor Mass, Verdi's Requiem and Mendelssohn's "Elijah." Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z

The first was Brahms’ arrangement for the left hand alone of Bach’s Chaconne from the Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

“More delicious than a thousand kisses, milder than muscatel wine,” Johann Sebastian Bach writes, in his “Coffee Cantata,” from the eighteenth century. The Rise of Coffee-Connoisseur Culture 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Checking them all out — from J. S. Bach to Joseph Beuys — made an absorbing diversion in the Act I Prelude. Review: ‘Meistersinger,’ Wagner’s Playful Paean to Culture, in London 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Then he circles back through those composers and, on Track 16, ends with the formidable fugue from that seminal Bach score. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z

Mr. Holt essentially selected notes from Bach’s harmonies and dramatically prolonged them to make a work — less an arrangement than a radical transformation — that unfolds as a series of extremely slow, sustained sonorities. Sprawling Across New York, a Solstice Music Marathon 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

What I find most fascinating about these books is that here is Michael, taking a hard look at Bach’s works to see what ethical problems they might present, especially with regard to anti-Judaisim. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

Five preludes and fugues, from the 24 Shostakovich wrote, are original music, but Bach here remains in the background as a composer phantom. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Bach, with his aura of improvisation, off-colored notes and dramatic abruptions, to steal the show. Stephen Hough twists the kaleidoscope of Edvard Grieg’s moods 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Nicholas Kenyon writes: Life in the English Bach festival office was never dull. Lina Lalandi 2012-07-08T17:30:07Z

He describes a radio performance of the “Goldberg” Variations by the young Glenn Gould in 1954 as “awfully well behaved, the sound of Gould playing Bach with his shirt tucked in and his hair combed.” Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z

“Bach shows us extreme articulated clarity in large structure and small details. This is the challenge.” Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the Passionate Formalist 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Life-writing abhors a vacuum, and experts have indulged in all manner of speculation, generally mirroring their own approaches to the world, about how Bach must have understood himself and his works. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The music, which Bach wrote in G major, now sounds vaguely like it’s in G minor, though the harmonies are elusive and disorienting. A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

Three years later, he moved to Leipzig, a city with a rich musical tradition reaching back to Johann Sebastian Bach. Kurt Masur, conductor who was a unifying force in a divided Germany, dies at 88 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

I am often skeptical of claims of vinyl’s superiority, but when listening to one of Electric Recording’s albums of Bach’s solo violin pieces played by Martzy, I was stunned by their clearness and beauty. The Vinyl? It’s Pricey. The Sound? Otherworldly. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” consists of six cantatas written for various days of Christmastide and not intended to be performed together, as they often are today. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

But just what is it about Bach in particular that makes his music so endlessly malleable? Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

Philip Scrivin The organist plays music by Bach, Schumann, et al. L.A. classical music performances, June 4-11: The annual Ojai Music Festival and more 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

Bach's cantatas and passions are a distant model, but the way in which Birtwistle manages the drama and intertwines the voices with the chamber orchestra that supports them is entirely his own. This week's new live music 2011-08-19T23:08:14Z

“Chronicle,” as sensual as it is minimal, compels the viewer not just to watch, but above all to listen, foregrounding Bach’s music as its primary material. film: Anti-Biopics Series at Anthology Film Archives 2010-07-09T07:25:00Z

Think of the “period” or historically informed performance movement, and the mind probably turns to Monteverdi, Bach, Handel. The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Bach is represented by his Orchestral Suite in B minor, which Sorrell describes as a “quasi-concerto featuring a dialogue between flute and strings.” Jeannette Sorrell to make SSO debut in ‘Bach’s Coffeehouse’ 2014-01-02T22:47:41Z

Handel’s solo keyboard music constituted a relatively small part of his output, although his harpsichord scores were disseminated more widely during his lifetime than the more numerous keyboard works of either Scarlatti or Bach. Classical Recordings: ‘Handel: Keyboard Suites’ by Lisa Smirnova 2012-09-29T23:03:03Z

“I think the private Bach is still private,” he said in an interview in 1980, the year he decided to end his financial involvement with the group. William H. Scheide, 100, Philanthropist, Is Dead 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

"There was no chaos," Bach wrote, only "a calm, determined, relentless pursuit of the perfect." Cleopatra and Heaven's Gate: the last of the great Hollywood stinkers? 2013-07-19T13:00:00Z

The program opened with “Concerto for Two Violins,” set to the Bach classic that is well-suited for the short solos that pepper many of King’s works. LINES Ballet’s ‘Rasa’ is beautiful but brutal

But he praised the Ring as “a good way to get a feel of these works as the prime core of Bach’s output.” What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Of course, for Tepfer to supply his own improvised versions of the missing Bach inventions takes some bravado. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

In our German Lutheran home, Bach provided the soundtrack. A Critic Gives Prizes for 5 ‘Messiah’ Concerts in New York 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The number 33 “coincides nicely with the 333rd anniversary of Bach’s birthday,” Michael Maul, the festival’s artistic director, wrote in the program book. A Tribute to Bach on His Own Turf: 33 Cantatas in 48 Hours 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

On Hyperion, Piers Lane gives us the piano transcriptions of some of Bach's organ works that d'Albert prepared for his own recitals. D'Albert: Complete Bach Transcriptions/D'Albert: Symphony in F major; Seejungfr?ulein 2010-04-08T22:35:00Z

Bach, with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for its final Baroque & Wine program of the season. At the Symphony: pre-Classical classics, and a rising violin star 2011-05-12T19:26:09Z

The program includes arrangements of music by Bach, Bartok, Bloch, Villa-Lobos and others. Classical Music Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Crumb arranged fragments of those poems into five songs and two interludes that are something between a Bach cantata and an exotic ritual. Music Review: Opera Moderne?s ?Modern Tryst? at the Galapagos Art Space - Review 2011-09-01T22:41:50Z

“Who Cares” is encumbered by the conventionalizing orchestrations of Hershy Kay, but once it gets going, the interplay between Balanchine’s classical steps and Gershwin’s syncopations is analogous to that between Balanchine and Bach. New York City Ballet in a Broad Program at the Koch Theater 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

There were passages with real dramatic flow, including the sequence of movements beginning with the tenor arioso “All they that see him laugh him to scorn,” which evokes a Bach Passion. Music Review: ‘Messiah’ by the Oratorio Society at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-25T19:53:56Z

Bach drew those wildly imaginative and fanciful but spare lines of melody and counterpoint, leaving it to the player to add color. From Christian Tetzlaff, Violin Sonatas and Partitas 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

At 18 and 19, Menuhin was the first to record Bach’s complete solo violin sonatas and partitas, not then well known. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Tour overview: Spend the hour poking around the house commissioned by Emil Bach, whose brother owned Wright’s Steffens House a few blocks away. On the trail of Frank Lloyd Wright in Illinois and Wisconsin 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

She’s been dancing the “Rosenkavalier” section of “Vienna Waltzes,” the Bach Ricercata finale of “Episodes” and the heroic central role of “Diamonds”; on Thursday her debut in “Stravinsky Violin Concerto,” Aria I, was characteristically ardent. Women Fill New York City Ballet’s Season With Splendor 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

They were husband-and-wife artists in the Odessa Philharmonic — he plays the cello, she the violin — sharing a love for Bach partitas and the music from “Star Wars.” An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Marissen, 55, is a musicologist and professor emeritus at Swarthmore College; Oxford University Press is issuing his “Bach & God,” a book of scholarly essays from the last 20 years. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

He made Weill Recital Hall, the most intimate of Carnegie’s three spaces, unusually dark for his performance of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. Review: Dimming the Lights for Sensuously Flowing Bach 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

And what Mr. Ma plays at moments like those, to make us cry and then soothe us, is, more often than not, a selection from the Bach cello suites. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Yo-Yo Ma will appear with the Berlin Philharmonic on March 20, and on April 15 the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, will perform in an evening program of work by Bach, Previn and Vivaldi. What's on This Week Around the World 1457-12-02T05:00:00Z

In the opening measures of the chorale “Es Ist Genug,” the one Berg incorporated into his final work, the Violin Concerto, Bach even anticipates atonality. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z

In this regard, the most revealing recording in the new set may be a program featuring arias by Bach and Handel, mostly dating from the mid-1940s. Marian Anderson: A Voice of Authenticity and Justice 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

I was never ambitious about how many miles I covered — until I read a biography of Johann Sebastian Bach. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z

And while you might not deem C.P.E. obscure, exactly — what with being the most famous of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sons — these works are hardly overfamiliar. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Its boy choristers sang in the memorable performances of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” that he led in 2014 at the Park Avenue Armory with the Berlin ensemble and the Berlin Radio Choir. Simon Rattle to Lead Tribute at St. Thomas Church 1459-05-31T05:00:00Z

But he also has the ability to stand back and bring calculating rigor to his interpretations, notably in his Bach and Beethoven, which sounded Tuesday entirely German. Igor Levit, the best Russian pianist you haven't heard...yet 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Bach did Palestrina in Leipzig but he put instruments with it, and a continuo bass. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z

Charles learned all kinds of instruments, like a little Bach might, but settled on the violin and was playing under his father’s baton by his early teens. For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Bach had worked with these very tenets earlier in his career, when he composed glorious musical settings of them in his Cantata No. 172, “Ring Out, Ye Songs.” Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Those who felt like it were encouraged to be offbeat – but first they had to demonstrate sufficient love of Bach. Britten Sinfonia – review 2012-10-29T13:16:58Z

More important than the question of whether Bach should be played on historical or contemporary instruments is the general approach performers bring. Review: Tackling Bach, Debussy and Prokofiev at Spectrum 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

One of its fold-out spreads has an intricate, circuitlike diagram that connects over a hundred names, from the Butterfield Blues Band, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds to Busby Berkeley, Brubeck and Bach. When nuclear terror reigned 2012-05-25T00:00:00Z

Even in the first movement of “Concerto Barocco,” you’re not really “seeing” Bach’s double violin concerto: The difference between the solo violins and the ballerinas following them is rhythmically large. City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

From both Handel and Bach, Tippett adopted a template of narrative recitative, contemplative arias, descriptive choruses and — specific to Bach’s Passions — familiar chorales. Into The Music: Michael Tippett?s ?Child of Our Time? Fits With Winter 2012-01-29T04:39:18Z

The centerpiece of the Bach festival will be performances of the six Taylor dances, which were created between 1961 and 2002 and set to Bach’s “Brandenburg” concertos, cello suites and other works. With Bach and Paul Taylor, Orchestra of St. Luke’s Plans Its Future 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Longborough has found a magnificent Brünnhilde in Rachel Nicholls, a singer so versatile that she has also had a career as a Bach specialist. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z

One is scheduled for Sunday evening as part of a worship service at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church near Lincoln Center, in its valuable Bach Vespers series. Music Review | Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra: At Trinity, Andrew Parrott Leads a Full-Bodied ?Passion? 2010-03-16T21:46:00Z

The second Bard program, “Sons of Bach, Sons of Palestrina,” offered examples of chamber music from the era. For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The attention to definition and clarity that he brought to Bach also enlivened Chopin’s Sonata No. 3 in B minor. Music Review: Benjamin Grosvenor at the Frick Collection 2012-03-21T21:34:50Z

But in his retirement from the stage he continues to engage with Bach’s music and this absorbing new recording features a brilliant Italian Concerto and a colorful reading of the French Overture. Classical Playlist: Puccini, Mendelssohn, Wagner and More 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

A U.S. flag hung motionless on stage right as Levit sat at the gleaming Steinway, raised one arm, and began a chaconne by Bach, in an arrangement by Brahms for left hand only. Close at Hand with the Pianist Igor Levit 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

The festival’s professional chorus is called the Berwick Chorus of the Oregon Bach Festival. Oregon Bach Festival gets $7.25 million donation 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

He nonetheless came to see the value of classical training; he later returned to the classics and eventually performed Bach and Mozart on several occasions with symphony orchestras. George Shearing, ?Lullaby of Birdland? Jazz Virtuoso, Dies at 91 2011-02-14T18:49:32Z

Though Bach worked for years on the project, he never completed it: the final four-voice fugue was left unfinished at his death at 65 in 1750. Music Review: Windscape and Orion String Quartet at Town Hall - Review 2012-01-09T22:45:52Z

Between those two works are Johann Sebastian Bach's "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 3 in G major, and the Symphony in G minor by the Baroque genius' youngest son, Johann Christian Bach. Seattle Symphony celebrates baroque dads 2012-03-01T20:54:05Z

Crystal River Cruises will unveil the Crystal Bach on the Danube in June and the Crystal Mahler on the Rhine in August. Getting Around by Rail, Sail or Foot 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

“Bach is one of the only composers who wrote for unaccompanied cello.” Here’s the good some are doing to combat the fear and isolation of the coronavirus 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

I’m surprised more cellists haven’t taken it up, as it nicely bridges the music of today with its Bach model. At Kennedy Center, Duo Parnas is faultless to a fault 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

In the opening Bach Prelude and Fugue No. 14 in F Minor, he illuminated the inner fugal voices with remarkable clarity and restraint. Pianist Jan Lisiecki: Extremely talented and incredibly young 2012-02-09T17:55:04Z

In Bach’s vision, Mr. Sellars made clear, the chorus stands for a community of individuals, of which the audience is but an extension. The Berlin Radio Choir Sings Rachmaninoff’s Vespers 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

James Bach described his father as in "sort of a daze" from the Aug. 31 accident in which his small plane flipped over after hitting power lines on San Juan Island. Injured author Richard Bach in 'sort of a daze,' son says 2012-09-10T03:24:04Z

However, there's one piece for me that combines the musical, the personal, and the existential in an inescapably tear-jerking combination: the final chorus from Bach's St Matthew Passion. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z

One day she urged me to get to know Bach’s Mass, which she called the greatest masterpiece of all time. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Bach left few indications of tempos, phrasings and dynamics in his scores. Review: Lars Vogt Offers His Intensely Probing Take on Bach 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

At times, as the soundtrack morphs from bestial animal grunts to the liquid cadences of Bach, they look like Masai tribesmen, at times like day-trippers changing into Speedos on the beach. Out of Context: For Pina 2010-06-19T23:15:00Z

The first half offered two dance suites: one by Bach, the other a sort of “iPod shuffle,” as Mr. Denk put it. Music in Review: ‘Science Fair,’ Jeremy Denk and the Emerson String Quartet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Yet Mr. Masur also captured the hymnal beauty of the recurrent chord passage, which sounded like a sturdy Bach chorale. Music Review: Kurt Masur as a Philharmonic Guest Conductor 2010-05-13T20:30:00Z

Floating above their music was a voice with the kind of luminosity one longs for in Bach, that of the marvelous young soprano Elijah McCormack. Review | One aria sums up a joyful Washington Bach Consort ‘Christmas Oratorio’ 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

The Bach and the Mozart are true duets, in which the piano and violin have equal roles, and Levin made an arresting partner. A lyrical blend of new and old in Hilary Hahn and Robert Levin’s performance 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Music has been a primary concern — Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Dvorak. 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother': Raising kids the 'hyper-severe' Chinese way 2011-01-14T19:44:06Z

As a child, she was drawn to the lyricism of his preludes for piano, even as she followed a strict conservatory regimen of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Yuja Wang, Daredevil Pianist, Takes on a Musical Everest 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

The Bach Suite No. 3 wasn’t a high point either. Phillips’s Music Room bursts at the seams for recital by Lynn Harrell 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

At this party, the guest of honor might be Bach — the looming Baroque master whose music, Mr. Kenney wrote in a program note, transcends its time to become something more spiritual, holistic and worldly. Review: A Violinist Connects the Dots From Bach to the Present 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

With an ear for easily overlooked details and dramatic instincts that gave the whole evening a sense of drive and accumulation, Young subtly threaded elements of the Bach through the pieces that followed. Review: The Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Makes an Entrance 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Since writing about Bach in the first article of this series I have been thinking more about the perception that he was considered old-fashioned in his day. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

Mr. Adams’s contribution, he said, has similarities to Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, one of Mr. Hurwitz’s favorite pieces, but he described its sound as “Satie meets Bill Evans.” At Nonesuch Records, Star Treatment for a Boss Who Plays 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

The other unusual twist on the program was that each of the three remaining pieces -- all standard fare from Bach and Handel -- was preceded by a meditative prelude. Bernard Labadie's welcome return to Disney Hall 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Hired by Leipzig to serve as the German city’s cantor for St. Thomas Church, Bach not only wrote weekly cantatas for several major houses of worship. Multimedia Tafelmusik concert immerses audience in Bach’s creative cycle 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

A gospelly and then funky Let It Be stretches Redman's rugged inventiveness on tenor; a spacious, tonally pristine Bach Adagio – mostly in conversation with just Grenadier's bass – benefits from its simplicity. Joshua Redman: Walking Shadows – review 2013-05-02T22:50:01Z

Along with Bach’s skillful performance, Manthei’s poise and onstage presence suggests a double exposure of Anne as an old woman and a child. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

Bach's passions are inevitably one model for what Adams and Sellars have done; Leonard Bernstein's Mass is perhaps another less obvious one. The Gospel According to the Other Mary – review 2013-03-17T19:07:10Z

But before leaving, he made a studio recording of the “Goldbergs” in Berlin and a live one at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach worked. Lang Lang, Piano Thunderer, Greets Bach’s Austere ‘Goldbergs’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Bach have both technical chops and irresistible wit. Classical Music This Week: Sounds of Cleveland’s Past and P.D.Q. Bach 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

The cleanness of Ms. Koh’s attack in the bold, yearning opening phrase recalled the clarity of Bach; even her ferocity, later on, burned with a heat that was white, not red. Review: For Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer,’ a Chance to Compare and Contrast 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

He whistled a lot of Bach, but also the Beatles. Experience: I’m a world-class whistler 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Looked at upside down or sideways, it still says the same thing: the Sonatas and Partitas and the suites were composed by Bach and copied by his wife. The Search for Mrs. Bach 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

In between, a pianist, a violinist and a soprano contribute prayers and Bach preludes. Review: In Two Israeli Plays, the Promise of Peace Keeps Receding 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

And Bach’s somewhat cryptic note is not even about the less heretical notion of God’s possibly just “dwelling” within music, either. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

In the music rooms, the conservatory and breakfast room, not to mention assorted gazebos scattered around the sprawling English garden and grounds, it's the kind of place where a little Bach is always welcome. Review: 'Quartet' has a winning, classy charm 2013-01-08T14:37:08Z

A fair few lawyers might describe themselves that way, if they play a bit of Bach to wind down at night. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

You can generally count on a New York spring to produce three or four prominent performances of Bach Passions. Review: Bach Passions in New York 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

His insightful and technically formidable accounts of works by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin made clear why, at 31, Mr. Blechacz is one of the major artists of his generation. The Pianist Rafal Blechacz in Exciting, if Blaring, Form 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Zehetmair closed his program with the grandest of the Bach solo works, the Partita No. 2 in D minor, and if its technical attributes were similar, its energy and intensity were greater. Music Review: Emotional Essays and a Soliloquy for the Violin 2011-05-23T21:02:07Z

There is no way to know this, but the look of Bach on his portraits makes me think that he, steady at the harpsichord controls, would have reacted exactly the same way as Suzuki. Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan's impeccable taste shows at Disney Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Also on the program are concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach, his son C. P. E. Bach and Stravinsky, as well as the premiere of a Chaconne credited to the entire orchestra. Classical: Britten Serenade in the Park 2013-07-26T20:08:34Z

“My plan was never to be a conductor,” he said, though as a student at Columbia, he was the first music director of the Bach Society Chorus and Orchestra there. Ken-David Masur, Back at Tanglewood, Feels His Father’s Spirit 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

The violists Mark Holloway and Paul Neubauer played expressively in the Concerto No. 6 in B flat, in which Bach took the unusual step of promoting the violas from continuo accompaniment to solo prominence. Music Review: Another Merry Christmas With the ?Brandenburgs? 2010-12-20T23:03:32Z

It's this economy, combined with expressive power, the ability to conjure immense breadth and depth through the leanest of means, that has repeatedly drawn other composers back to Bach. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

Murray Perahia performed works by Bach, Schubert and Beethoven on Sunday as part of the Great Performers series at Avery Fisher Hall. Music Review: Murray Perahia at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-26T22:22:02Z

“Junction,” an important revival from 1961 and set to Bach, was Mr. Taylor’s first attempt to explore musicality in dance. Paul Taylor Dance Company Comes to Lincoln Center 2012-03-09T18:58:14Z

Little New Yorkers probably don’t know much about Bach or yards. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

She should, and she will, for what she displays here is playing of preternatural sensitivity, sophistication and control, along with a touch of magic, as Bach’s theme returns at the end. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

At a young age, a piano teacher assigned him excerpts from Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier.” He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

But Bach, with his spectacular calves, sees this summer as an optimistic inflection point. Asian American masculinity is being increasingly celebrated. But many men still face stereotyping. 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

Many artists of the period, including Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger, were fascinated with Bach, whose contrapuntal forms and clean lines inspired them. Music Review: AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2011-10-23T21:57:46Z

Bach was among the composers he put on the shelf during those years. Pierre-Laurent Aimard Plays Bach at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

It was the high point, though the emotional peak for me may have come during the Bach. We Heard Our First Live Music in Months. Nothing Beats It. 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

An excellent performance of Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F minor concluded that program. Music Review: Ensemble Basiani?s Georgian Fare at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-17T22:40:00Z

As expressions of Bach’s virtuosity, solo pieces for cello, violin and harpsichord dotted the evening. Review | The Knights weave old and new in concert of surprises at Dumbarton Oaks 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Emanuel Gat's In Translation is a hushed abstract composition, set to Bach and interludes of silence, that deftly weaves together fluid phrases for its six dancers. Candoco Dance Company - review 2010-10-12T21:15:00Z

But Mr. Denk will follow up with, oh, a little thing by Bach, the “Goldberg” Variations. Looking Ahead: Time to Turn the Page 2010-12-30T23:28:26Z

So beginning the program with the pensive Bach work was a musical gesture, not a time to showcase memorization. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z

He likes innovation and tradition, contemporary music and Bach and jazz. Yannick, unique: Philadelphia Orchestra hopes it’s found its savior. 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Maul, a 40-year-old musicologist bursting with ideas and long connected with the Bach Archive here, which organizes Bachfest, conceded in an interview that the number 33 came about pretty much by accident. A Tribute to Bach on His Own Turf: 33 Cantatas in 48 Hours 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

So, with respect and plucky daring, Labadie fashioned a concerto from three Bach movements that feature a solo violin: two sinfonias sandwiching an adagio from the “Easter Oratorio.” Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

To what degree is the music he’s playing actually “by” Bach? Carpenter energizes Kennedy Center with irreverent organ performance 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

People gathered over the Ponte dell’Accademia and along the paved banks of the Grand Canal to watch the floating concert that included works by Bach and Schubert. A Giant Violin Floats Down Venice’s Grand Canal 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jordan, whose slight cold had worsened, spoke briefly in a hoarse voice, highlighting the orchestra’s achievement in playing Bach at a recent concert. Philippe Jordan, a Conductor Who Excels at Juggling Jobs 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

In Los Angeles, Bach in the Subways will feature a 10-hour Bach marathon with an organ recital and an appearance by L.A. Los Angeles' Bach in the Subways celebration ready to roll Saturday 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Performs music by Bach and Fats Waller at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, on 24 April, then touring. Nigel Kennedy 2013-03-05T17:45:00Z

Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” is just as long, but its tone, befitting a Nativity narrative, is milder and more consistent — and, arguably, in a single evening, more wearying. Music Review: Riverside Choral Society, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-24T21:59:57Z

The Bach sonata represented a mix of performance styles. Music Review: Bach and Polyphonies Minifestival at Lincoln Center 2010-08-15T21:47:00Z

Not knowing very much about Bach at that point, I was overwhelmed at how gorgeous the music was. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

A month later, at the First Baptist Church here, Joye in Aiken held a performance of Bach’s “Saint Matthew Passion.” Joye Cottage, a Love Story 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

It’s the last one, in which Moore necks with Barbara Bach in a plush submarine escape pod and delivers one of his better – in the sense of utterly cringeworthy 40 years later – Bondian one-liners. 'Keeping the British end up': Roger Moore's career in clips 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

While our sense of Bach has deepened as scholars have learned more about the key role opera played in the world he inhabited, he chose never to write in the genre. Music Review: Berlin Philharmonic Performs a New ‘St. John Passion’ 2014-02-28T03:15:50Z

In the 1970s, Dr. Lewis and several friends began meeting in the basement of his mother’s house in Arlington to play the music of Bach. J. Reilly Lewis, organist, choral director and Bach authority, dies at 71 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Programming pulls into focus on Tuesday when an ensemble of gifted string players place dibs on Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” and “15 Sinfonias for violin, viola and cello” in arrangements by Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T17:27:04Z

The new version, a world premiere, is also set to Bach, along with music from Henry Purcell and David van Bouwel. PNB turns 40 with Mark Morris premiere and more 2012-03-07T22:38:04Z

In honor of the centennial of her birth, EMI has released her complete recordings on a three-disc set, an impressive showcase of her artistry in trademark works of Bach, Gluck, Handel and Mahler. Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z

But within their limits Bach introduces beginning players to some sophisticated elements of music, including daring harmonic modulations. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

“Spirit,” that same month, will include Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion,” which the Philharmonic has not performed since 2008. The Philharmonic Plans Its Return to Geffen Hall, With Fanfare 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

After turning to Bach’s choral works in the 1960s and forming her chorale, Ms. Moyse became famous for her slow, demanding approach to molding singers. Blanche Moyse, Music School Founder, Dies at 101 2011-02-15T07:30:06Z

There is though, one obvious paragon of the solo cello repertoire that is conspicuous by its absence from Weilerstein's forthcoming collection - the cello suites written by that titanic figure of classical music, J S Bach. Weilerstein brings Dvorak to Proms 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

The pianist Barbara Carroll’s “My Funny Valentine,” interwoven with fragments of Bach, evoked an impressionistic floral paradise. Music Review: New York Cabaret Convention at Rose Hall - Review 2011-10-21T23:34:33Z

In Bach, when a section is repeated, players usually add ornaments to underscore ideas and add variation, and Egarr does this in a low-key way. Review | British harpsichordist plays Bach with precision, clarity and finesse at Phillips Collection 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

In 2014, Ms. Moss helped bring the Berlin Philharmonic’s staging of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” to the Park Avenue Armory, which was reconfigured to resemble the orchestra’s unique home in Berlin. Lincoln Center to End Its Namesake Summer Festival 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

For some it’s too conceptual, too postmodern in its view of Bach’s place in history. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

A tribute to the giddy pleasures of dancing, “Kisses,” set to Bach’s Concerto No. 1 in D minor, was also a New York premiere. Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet Plays With Limits and Dystopia at City Center 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

This constantly changing texture makes us listen afresh to the beauty of Bach's astonishing vocal writing. Bach: Mass in B minor 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

He was listening to music, Thomas Tallis and Stravinsky, and “looking at Bach.” A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

“There’s also something beautiful and important about presenting different composers side by side, and behind a curtain, so that you’re not focusing on their name, or whether or not they’re Bach.” A Cellist Breaks Music Into ‘Fragments,’ Then Connects Them 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

His Bach was sunny, earthy, jovial and good-humored. Richard Goode lends a lively voice to an exuberant all-Bach piano program 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

The exuberant Howard Moody rehearsed the audience in the final chorale of the Easter cantata Christ lag in Todesbaden so that we could play our part as Bach's congregations would have done. Nabucco; Bach Marathon; Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott – review 2013-04-06T23:06:25Z

But the weightiness that seemed unsuited to Bach worked surprisingly well in Mendelssohn's Third Sonata. Alessandro Taverna ? review 2012-02-10T18:15:42Z

They are quite remarkable, in that most of them don't sound like transcriptions at all but suggest original Bach keyboard music played on a modern piano. D'Albert: Complete Bach Transcriptions/D'Albert: Symphony in F major; Seejungfr?ulein 2010-04-08T22:35:00Z

As for the program, neither the series title, Refracted Bach, nor the concert title, “Stile Antico,” entirely covered the ground. Music Review: Dessoff Choirs at Church of St. Paul the Apostle 2012-02-07T23:41:03Z

It was purely pianistic Bach, largely unconcerned with articulation strategies or crispness. Review | Murray Perahia recital packed with canonic masterpieces, to uneven effect 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

His objection to Bach, in any case, serves as bait for the audience and for Lydia. One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

In its second outing, on Friday and Saturday, the orchestra joins Joshua Bell in Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado; it will be flanked with works by Bach and Mozart. The Week Ahead: July 31 ? Aug. 6 2011-07-28T15:11:28Z

Here St. Thomas’s very fine organist recreates a program of Bach works that Mendelssohn performed at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig in 1840. Classical & Opera Listings for June 19-25 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Bach may be the prime example, and I found something similar in David's books. David Mitchell: 'In a libretto you just write "storm"' 2013-03-25T20:40:00Z

“What was interesting for me was to show visually, through the dancers, the structure of Bach fugues,” he said. In Berlin, Break Dancing to Bach 2010-04-22T10:00:00Z

As George Bernard Shaw wrote, Bach’s theme is religion and Mozart’s is characters, but “Beethoven was the first man who used music with absolute integrity as the expression of his own emotional life.” 17 Works, 9 Hours, 10 Days: My Beethoven Quartet Marathon 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

They also speak to his reverence of Bach, in whose honor he composed several fugues in the early 1920s. Art Review: A Modernist Who Thrived at the Margins of Painting 2011-07-21T23:27:13Z

Moments of objectivity on Wigglesworth's part, together with brief but notable pauses between sections, reminded us of the work's structural roots in Bach, without detracting from the power of its harrowing analysis of totalitarian persecution. LPO/Wigglesworth – review 2013-05-02T17:22:24Z

Trying to match Bach and Balanchine must be as wearying as trying to match nature. Review: In ‘Biophony,’ Ballet Matches Exotic Sound 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Yet Mr. Schiff, a masterly Bach interpreter, has played this music for 50 years, since his childhood. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z

In other performances of the passion, you can be swept along by the choral majesty of Bach’s music. Review: An Intimate ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Has a Shattering Effect 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

The composers Monteverdi, Bach, Rameau, Schubert and Bizet supplied her with the challenges she needed, and her responses were never conventional in musicality or theatricality. Trisha Brown, Choreographer and Pillar of American Postmodern Dance, Dies at 80 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

“Over the last two decades,” Washington Post contributor Cecelia Porter wrote in 1998, “conductor J. Reilly Lewis has raised this group to a world-class ensemble even compared with the finest groups in Bach’s native land.” J. Reilly Lewis, organist, choral director and Bach authority, dies at 71 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Here, for the Bach, it listed 74 choristers and 33 instrumentalists. ArtsBeat: On Music and Medicine: A Performance by L'Ensemble M?dical 2011-02-17T17:30:07Z

As part of her “Bach and Beyond” series, she pairs alluring performances of Bach’s Partitas Nos. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z

His music, which could recall not only jazz and blues but also Bach, Debussy, Ravel and Vaughan Williams, was performed on major stages, including those of Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls in New York. William Thomas McKinley, Jazz-Loving Composer, Dies at 76 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

Here, they will portray Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, as little listeners learn about these composers. Spare Times for Children for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:35:14Z

The stylistic challenges of French harpsichord music exceed those of Bach, with an equal number of uncertainties and arcane rules, particularly as to ornaments. French pianist Moulin shows promising talent in short but sweet performance

Some of Bach’s great music was Not, perhaps, his own. Style Invitational Week 1099: Yours for the asking — it’s Questionable Journalism

To prove his point, he places one of the Bach LPs on to a turntable and lowers the needle. What does a £2,500 record sound like? 2013-05-25T16:00:00Z

Its protagonist, Bach, is a poet who sacrifices all his relationships to the demands of an obsessive imagination, and resists any pressure to be responsible. Howard Barker: a champion of imagination, not 'relevance' 2010-04-29T15:41:00Z

Jazz, Featuring Chopin and Bach You might not think of Le Poisson Rouge as the ideal place for an organ recital: for one thing, it lacks an organ. Music Review: Cameron Carpenter Plays at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-06-09T19:36:00Z

A few days after the Carnegie appearances, Muck was arrested, in the middle of a rehearsal of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, in Boston. The “Star-Spangled Banner” Controversy That Altered the Course of American Music 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

The same three dancers delivered Hans van Manen’s “Solo”: each solo is a rapid and silly string of whimsically cute effects larded onto Bach music. Dance Review: International Stars at Damian Woetzel?s Festival in Vail 2010-08-08T23:47:00Z

He also played a Bach cello suite on the sidewalk outside the Russian Embassy in Washington. Yo-Yo Ma Makes His Encore a Call for Peace, With a Nod to Casals 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

The introduction to Light My Fire was my little Bach study. Doors co-founder Ray Manzarek dies 2013-05-21T09:28:37Z

I must begin my playing every day with one hour of Bach. Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

Bach’s “Easter Oratorio”; Bach Choir and Players; with period instruments; Rick Erickson, music director. Whiffs of Choral Ambrosia 2014-04-10T22:11:55Z

Gardiner eventually took over, leading the subsequent performance which ended with the public emulating the church congregation of Bach's day by joining the professional musicians in the final hymn. 5 stars for 9-hour Bach Marathon 2013-04-02T10:24:08Z

The image at first seems of a piece with the notoriously unrevealing Bach, about whose life and character frustratingly little is known. A Bach Portrait, Heading to Germany, Gets Musical Send-Off 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Another candidate for this list was also born in Germany the same year as Bach: Handel, who lived nine years longer. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z

Mr. Norrington agrees about the continuing need for a period approach to Rameau and C. P. E. Bach, and his case for old instruments is typically forthright. Early Music Is Enjoying Its Moment 2011-03-06T01:45:27Z

The sun shines again in “Esplanade,” a piece of everyday walks, runs and breathtaking slides, to selections by J. S. Bach. Paul Taylor proves staying power of '70s and '80s dance 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

Bach’s greatest music was written by his wife: New discordant notes? Style Invitational Week 1099: Yours for the asking — it’s Questionable Journalism

This is one of the great Bach recordings, period. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

More than a quarter-millennium after his death, the music of Bach is still managing to inspire edgy art happenings in Berlin. In Berlin, Break Dancing to Bach 2010-04-22T10:00:00Z

The most moving moments arise from his use of black American spirituals like “Steal Away” and “Nobody Knows” as modern equivalents to Bach’s chorales. Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie 2012-02-05T22:40:45Z

The first of the Bach programs, featuring his violin concertos plus suites and fantasias by 17th-century British composer Henry Purcell, is Saturday at Town Hall. Ingrid Matthews says farewell to Seattle Baroque Orchestra 2012-10-04T20:04:07Z

Bach, it seems, has been the composer of the pandemic, his music speaking to many of the full spectrum of human experiences and emotions. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Works by Bach, Schubert and Schumann, 8 p.m. Pianist Simone Dinnerstein brings her brand of Bach to Seattle 2011-01-06T22:08:07Z

In the Netherlands, Pieter Jan Leusink, the founder of the country’s Bach Choir, has been accused of sexual misconduct, but is giving major concerts. Two Star Conductors Faced #MeToo Allegations. Now They’re Back. 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

One was made in a studio in Berlin; the other was recorded live in St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany, where Bach worked for the last 27 years of his life. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

Dirst is an efficient, extremely precise conductor who has an ear for detail and up-to-date ideas about performing Bach. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

“I find that Bach is appealing to a lot of different audiences,” she said. Hilary Hahn Returns to Bach, 21 Years Older. And Maybe Wiser. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

The orchestra, continuing the practice of grouping concerts around a composer, will put on four programs dedicated to Bach. New York Philharmonic Announces Next Season?s Schedule 2012-02-22T17:04:47Z

Next came a Bach novelty, a “weird creature of my imagination,” as Labadie described it, titled “An imaginary Concerto for Violin.” Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

When Bach made concertos out of pieces by Vivaldi, he bettered Vivaldi, and the pieces became Bach. 'Blurred Lines' verdict would rock Amadeus and other great composers 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

The violin part to her songs was more rigorously technical, with complex pizzicato passages, Romantic cadenzas and harmonic modulations that evoked an Appalachian Bach. Music Review: Carla Kihlstedt at the New York Festival of Song 2012-11-17T00:26:28Z

Trills and brushy arpeggiated motifs conjure the Bach suites at the center of the cello’s repertory, as the solo line goes back and forth from anxiously repetitive riffs to serene, expansive lyricism. Review: A Chinese Concerto and a Romantic Classic Gaze Back 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Savage, whose first instrument was the upright bass when he was president of his high school’s orchestra, gleans insight of melodic structure from baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Parquet Courts: ‘Sunbathing Animal’ has a punk sound with surprising influences

Penny Balkin Bach, executive director of the Association for Public Art in Philadelphia, said Woodmere is the right place to move the sculpture. From Shed to Museum: Bertoia Sculpture Returns to Public Square 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

But this concert of solo works by Bach — not living but always worthy — should be a highlight; it includes works for violin, lute, piano, cello and organ, in this case the seldom-heard instrument at Tully. Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

But if the six violin sonatas and partitas are to be performed complete, it is vital to perform them in the sequence Bach specified, Ms. Koh said, calling the set “an incredible musical arc.” Into the Music: Jennifer Koh to Play Bach?s Partitas and Sonatas 2011-10-23T03:39:15Z

Though Mr. Rolfe Johnson was most closely identified with early-music composers, including Monteverdi, Bach and Handel, his portfolio ranged through Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and on to modernity. Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Operatic Tenor, Dies at 69 2010-07-27T05:28:00Z

Bach's shadow extends across jazz, Afro-Cuban dance, folk and rock as much as it does across the classical world. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

The previous Bond film, "The Spy Who Loved Me," was fabulous but Barbara Bach's character was far more sexual than Holly. ArtsBeat: Lois Chiles Talks About Being a Bond Girl 2012-11-07T21:14:10Z

More than 110 years after its composition, the 45-minute piece received its belated premiere in this concert given by Tongue with the New Queen's Hall Orchestra and the Bach Choir. Vaughan Williams premiere ? review 2011-03-07T22:15:00Z

The leap from Bach to Ives is huge, but Mr. Dank accomplished it deftly. | Ran Dank: Wide-Ranging Program for Prizewinning Pianist 2009-12-17T05:52:00Z

The Bach Consort has both benefited and suffered from its late founder’s status as a big fish in Washington’s pond; beloved though it is, it has had a certain predictability. Perspective | Early music, fresh start: A new leader for Washington Bach Consort 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

This was the third in a flurry of Bach at One events that began on Monday and comprised the festival’s homestretch. Review: Sacred and Secular, Bach Closes a Festival 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Billed as “New York’s floating concert hall,” Bargemusic is presenting Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” and Bach’s “Violin Concerto in A Minor” at its home, a converted coffee barge moored by the Brooklyn Bridge. O Cold Night! 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

None of these great organs is neglected, exactly, but don't expect to hear a Bach fugue or Messiaen masterpiece any day of the week. The proof is in: The pipe organ is still the king of instruments 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

The others, portraits of Kevorkian’s father and Johann Sebastian Bach, show a more placid side. Museum of Death in L.A. buys Kevorkian suicide device Thanatron 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

It's fun though – a nice mix of Bach and bickering, with the Parthenon or the Ionian Sea as a backdrop. TV review: Alex: A Life Fast Forward; Art of Survival 2011-07-21T21:30:03Z

There are now more than 400 such programs nationwide, Ms. Bach said. In New York and More, Public Art Is Taking on Thorny Social Issues 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

Having become a doctor in Africa, Schweitzer returned to performing the Bach organ works as a statement of resistance to fascism. Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z

The enthusiastic opening-night audience didn’t seem to mind, but Bach demands better. Dance in Review 2011-06-17T22:48:58Z

Here is a short video in which I try to explain it, playing excerpts on the piano of music from Bach to the Beatles. London Theater Journal: Bright Young Things in a Dimming Light 2010-07-23T14:30:00Z

That is the case with Bach’s sacred cantatas, the focus of this year’s Bachfest Leipzig, which ran from June 8 through 17. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

While their repertory is largely classical, the group’s numbers span Bach and the Beatles. Cruise and Air News: Robots Onboard; Chefs Too 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

But Mark Morris, saucy and never shy to crack a joke, has done just that with his world premiere set to Bach’s Partita No. 3 in A minor. Mark Morris Premieres a Dance More Major Than ‘Minor’ 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z

The pianist Murray Perahia took to the stage of Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday for a performance of works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin. Music Review: Murray Perahia’s Powerful Sound Unfurls at Avery Fisher 2014-03-10T20:54:55Z

But before that Bach performance, all belongings — even watches — were shut into lockers so that audience members could be, in theory, fully “present.” On the Mattress for ‘Sleep,’ an 8-Hour Lullaby 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

Would Bach have been surprised to hear the experimental way a 20th-century piece paid him homage? Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

An understated and dashing oboist, San'nomiva tossed off phrases with the collected passionate dispassion of a jazz soloist, an aesthetic perfectly in accord with that of the Bach Collegium Japan. Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan's impeccable taste shows at Disney Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

And she followed that C major Prelude of Shostakovich’s, whose songlike simplicity proves deceptive, with Bach’s C major Prelude, which remains simplicity itself. Music Review: David Fray and Lionel Bringuier at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-08T22:08:00Z

In store for next season is a wider range of repertoire that plays on the relationships between the Baroque, classical and early Romantic periods, with the music of Bach as a recurrent theme. The agony and the ecstasy: an evening of gorgeous music by suffering composers 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Later that night concertgoers can head across West 65th Street to the Kaplan Penthouse, where ICE will play works by Bach, Stravinsky, Carter, Schnittke and others as part of A Little Night Music. The Week Ahead: Aug. 7 ? 13 2011-08-04T16:07:59Z

Surviving correspondence with his publisher revealed Bach to be not just a skilful negotiator but an innovative businessman, too. CPE Bach: like father, like son 2011-02-24T22:35:01Z

Scholars say it’s difficult to specify how much Schütz’s work influenced Bach, but he undeniably forged paths that subsequent German composers followed. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

Yet Howell's bland, arpeggiated compositions sound like a technically skilled child trying to ape Beethoven or Bach, or like Michael Nyman on a bad day: fine for elevators but not for the concert hall. Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga 2012-07-01T11:56:51Z

And he’s now pushed further back in time, releasing his interpretation of the pinnacle of the Baroque cello: Bach’s six suites for the instrument. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

If, back then, the group’s members were pioneers in respect to race and repertoire, it is hardly novel today to see Asian soloists and ensemble players performing Bach, Mozart and Beethoven in concert halls. Tokyo String Quartet to make last Seattle visit 2013-04-12T19:35:10Z

Actual settings of “Hallelujah,” by Handel, Bach, Johann Schein, Mozart and Mussorgsky are skillfully folded into the score by Mr. Eotvos, who integrates the borrowings into his own atmospheric, modernist language. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

He imbued the Adagio with an arresting poignancy and a dignity that also rendered memorable the Busoni arrangements of two Bach Chorale Preludes, one performed before each sonata. Music Review: Paul Lewis at Zankel Hall With Beethoven and Bach 2014-03-27T22:36:02Z

He launches into an impassioned disquisition on the private life of JS Bach. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z

Mahler, Berlioz, Holst, Brahms, Bach, Schumann and Mozart are brazenly conscripted and required to contribute their best bits to the business in hand. The Tree of Life is a colossal commercial 2011-07-11T10:18:14Z

This weekend’s concert, “Wonderful Winds,” concentrates on that section of the orchestra, with pieces that include Bach and Beethoven. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Last month, he spoke on the phone about Bach, about taking time off from performing and about his new baby, Arthur, born in August, with Tamara Stefanovich , an adventurous pianist in her own right. Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard talks about taking time off for Bach

To a certain extent, each celebrated pedestrian movement: The work that he chose to cap the program was his “Esplanade,” which, while set to Bach, is a soul-stirring labyrinth of walking, running, rolling and skipping. Review: An Incandescent Journey Through 20th-Century Dance 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

Both concerts are part of Carnegie Hall’s Before Bach focus. Classical & Opera Listings for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Bach, Beethoven and the Beatles formed part of an eclectic programme based on music chosen by the show's many guests. Castaways attend BBC Discs Prom 2012-09-04T10:36:08Z

“In the Upper Room,” “Push Comes to Shove” and “Bach Partita,” to name a few, are now staples of classical repertory. Twyla Tharp’s 50 Years of Forward Movement 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

Now, that’s a silly thing to say because there’s Bach and Mozart. Q&A: Can’t stop, won’t stop: Famous conductor’s show goes on 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

Picture the people of Bach’s household on free evenings, gathered in their living room for the activity of reading aloud. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

His own wistful “This Is the Song” emerged from the last bar of a Bach Courante gently, his transparent voice floating in space. Review: Chris Thile Is the God of Small Sounds 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Bach wrote the three sonatas and three partitas, which were probably never performed in public during his lifetime, over a span of some 17 years in the early 18th century. Into the Music: Jennifer Koh to Play Bach?s Partitas and Sonatas 2011-10-23T03:39:15Z

Los Angeles authorities say the attorney-husband of actress Catherine Bach has been found dead in an apparent suicide. Catherine Bach's husband dies in apparent suicide 2010-05-01T00:01:00Z

Bach has his own band, who play Skid Row's greatest hits with aplomb, but would he be able to resist the allure of another moment of glory? When one frontman is as good as any other 2013-05-23T13:14:08Z

Works on the program include Bach’s optimistic Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E, Tartini’s fiendish “Devil’s Trill Sonata” and selections from Paganini’s dazzling Caprices. Opera & Classical Music Listings for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

They would play something like a dozen pieces each: preludes and fugues, chorales, chorale preludes, sonatas, concerti, variations, and “free” works drawn from Bach’s five decades as a working organist. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

Bach, the master of them all, routinely helped himself to the music of colleagues and predecessors. The Unoriginal Originality of Led Zeppelin 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s very hard to write anything for solo cello and not have some subconscious relationship to Bach.” A Cellist Breaks Music Into ‘Fragments,’ Then Connects Them 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

But he moved decisively into the family business during his student years at Columbia University, where he founded the Bach Society Orchestra and Chorus in 1999 and conducted it through 2002. ArtsBeat: Kurt Masur’s Son Named Assistant Conductor in Boston 2014-05-08T19:56:33Z

Nigel Kennedy says the 'cult of authenticity' in classical music is ruining Bach's work. Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z

Bach’s is a fitful and tormented performance, marked by intense physical and dramatic control. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

But there is a rich heritage of full symphony orchestras playing Bach, including some insightful performances from Mr. Masur on his watch at the Philharmonic. Critic?s Notebook: Alan Gilbert and New York Philharmonic?s 2012-13 Season 2012-03-04T23:06:44Z

This raises the question of whether the mammoth achievement of Bach and other canonical composers did not in some way depend on a culture of borrowing. The Unoriginal Originality of Led Zeppelin 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

He started his recital with the six-movement B flat Capriccio that Bach wrote to mark his brother's departure to the Swedish court in 1704. Igor Levit – review 2013-04-03T17:47:45Z

This concert introduces the wind instruments, with music by composers including Bach, Beethoven and Ravel. Spare Times for Children for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:35:14Z

Inside the shop, a Juilliard-trained pianist, Evan Shinners, is playing five hours of Bach each and every day — for more than 30 straight days, even on Thanksgiving — and presenting evening concerts with guests. A Pop-Up Shop That Offers Bach Preludes, Fugues and Condoms 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

In his perceptive booklet notes Mr. Melnikov addresses the criticism sometimes leveled at these pieces: that in paying tribute to Bach, Shostakovich was too formal and academic. Alexander Melnikov Records Shostakovich Preludes 2010-07-04T02:16:00Z

As in a Bach fugue, their overall rhythmic momentum was readily apprehended. 'Suyama: A Complex Serenity' illuminates the career of a prizewinning Seattle architect 2011-07-06T22:40:11Z

He found sheet music by Bach on the instrument. The Pugnacious Performer Who Wants to Take the Harpsichord Mainstream 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Bach evening that subjects listeners to only two of this incompetent pseudo-composer’s works. Review: Bach at St. Paul’s, and the Fictional Relative, P.D.Q., at Town Hall 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Richard Bach was reportedly trying to land his small plane on San Juan island in Washington state when he hit power lines and got trapped in the cockpit. Author Richard Bach crashes plane 2012-09-01T20:57:31Z

"A big problem for classical music is that it's cloistered away, and people don't hear it enough," says Dale Henderson, 38, a cellist in New York City who started Bach in the Subways in 2010. Los Angeles' Bach in the Subways celebration ready to roll Saturday 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Not only the coming-of-age drama but also her technique of mixing unexpected music into the story, in this case a Johann Sebastian Bach fugue. A playwright on the rise: Quiara Alegria Hudes 2013-01-11T16:17:19Z

Like his vehicle, Bach is a hardened development veteran, and although he welcomes the money of fly-in celebrities, he doesn’t expect much durability from them. José Andrés thinks food can fix the world, starting in Haiti

Bach, so named for her devotion to the classical music constantly playing in her earbuds, is an assassin. Bill Clinton and James Patterson Have Written a Thriller. It’s Good. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

And Heinrich Neugeboren, in designing a monument to Bach by visualizing the lines of a fugue, attempted to make literal Goethe’s famous description of architecture as frozen music. At the Bauhaus, Music Was More Than a Hobby 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

The winners, students age 7-22, will play music by Bach, Haydn, Mozart and others in small ensembles. Tonkonogui Award winners in recital Saturday 2010-08-25T22:38:00Z

After becoming enchanted with Bach’s music at age 12, Dr. Lewis went on to become a virtuoso organist and a leading interpreter of the complex music of the 18th-century German composer. J. Reilly Lewis, organist, choral director and Bach authority, dies at 71 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

As for the established stars of the profession, none gave more satisfaction than Yo-Yo Ma, who, in a solo Bach outing at the Bowl, held a crowd of seventeen thousand spellbound. Notable Performances of 2019 and of the Decade 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

The Stokowski followed with a big Bach bath. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The program featured two Taylor masterpieces: “Company B,” a warm, nostalgic view of American perseverance, with songs recorded by the Andrews Sisters, and “Esplanade,” Taylor’s deeply personal musings on family and community, accompanied by Bach. Perspective | Best of dance 2021: Paul Taylor live at the Kennedy Center, Ashwini Ramaswamy and Jacob Jonas’s short films 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

We decide to do the Bach with no color. Twyla Tharp’s Premiere Week: The Stage Ship Sails 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Leading from a portative keyboard in front of the orchestra, he brought a beautifully blended sound from the 16 voices of the chorus, rich in dynamic variety and always sensitive to Bach’s piquant dissonances. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

He recalls visiting a museum of historic musical instruments in Berlin, where he was very moved to see the harpsichord that belonged to Bach. Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z

I don’t think Bach would mind if, now and then, a performance of his own “St. Matthew Passion” were replaced with Schütz’s. Before Bach, He Was Germany’s Greatest Composer 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

The free Bach concerts, about 60 to 90 minutes long, typically consist of an organ prelude, two or three sacred cantatas and some incidentals. Review: Sacred and Secular, Bach Closes a Festival 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Recycling old pieces for new purposes is a perfectly professional activity practiced by composers from Bach to Boulez. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Concludes With Almost All Mozart 2010-08-22T23:58:00Z

The Bach Store is both an effort to make live Bach more accessible and available and something of an inward journey for Mr. Shinners, who is 32. A Pop-Up Shop That Offers Bach Preludes, Fugues and Condoms 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

For me there was something touching about seeing a great pianist play a Bach prelude and fugue using the score. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z

He got his international credentials with his first 1990 recording of the Bach suites, for the Channel Classics label, which became one of the gold-standard versions. Wispelwey: Loneliness of the long-distance cellist 2013-01-31T11:21:34Z

But on Thursday at Alice Tully Hall, thanks to Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra, the four composer children took pride of place in a fascinating program, “Sons of Bach.” Review: A Rare Showcase for Bach. His Sons, That Is. 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Why was Bach, a composer of such powerful dramatic instincts, never drawn to opera? Berlin Philharmonic Performs 'St. Matthew Passion' at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Smedvig’s solo albums include works by Bach, Telemann, Haydn and Mozart. Rolf Smedvig, Trumpeter in the Empire Brass, Dies at 62 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

The pianos were both well used, because Raphael would rely on music — often Bach — to relieve the pressure. Rafael Viñoly, From the Drawing Board to the Keyboard 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

Bach fanciers happily accept a number of concertos that he arranged from works of others, among them Vivaldi, Telemann and Johann Ernst. Rearranging Ideas About Alternate Arrangements 2010-06-11T14:18:00Z

On concert includes works by Jewish composers such as Mahler, banned from performance by the Nazis, as well as works by German composers such as Bach and Beethoven. Holocaust victims' 'Violins of Hope' to resound in Berlin Philharmonic 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Bach’s Cantata 79 and selections from Cantatas 100 and 52; with orchestra and soloists; William Peek, director. A Week’s Vigil, Then Easter Hallelujahs 2014-04-10T21:53:05Z

There's the Bach Rescue Remedy, which I keep in my bag for when I feel a panic attack coming on. Can I spend my way out of my anxiety? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

The spectrum of performing styles for Bach's B minor Mass has become very wide. Bach: Mass in B minor 2010-07-22T21:35:00Z

Of course, the modern concept of intellectual property did not exist during the Baroque; a musician such as Bach was considered not an individual genius but a craftsman working with material in circulation. The Unoriginal Originality of Led Zeppelin 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Bach and some of his musical rivals, and the latest Hedgebrook festival of new works by esteemed women dramatists. Music rivals, Esperanto and new works on Seattle stages 2013-05-16T19:35:10Z

As the audience gazed toward the hall’s vast arched ceiling, Bach was lent some of the childlike wonder of a planetarium star show. Review: In ‘Goldberg,’ Marina Abramovic and Igor Levit Blend Classical Music and Performance Art 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Williams recalled a recent pilgrimage to St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany, where Bach once worked as a cantor. John Williams, Hollywood’s Maestro, Looks Beyond the Movies 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Bach's great Mass in B minor never fails to lift the spirit. BBCNOW/Fischer 2010-04-19T22:30:00Z

But he doesn’t take on new work with the enthusiasm of Renée Fleming, or unveil splashy unions of Bach and social justice like Yo-Yo Ma. Review: On Thanksgiving, Gratitude for a Dependable Violin 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

But sometimes the sound of the Bach Collegium Japan seemed a little small in the auditorium and lacked resonance, especially during some of the arias accompanied by fewer instruments. In a Mass, a Cradle of Consolation for Japan 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z

There were also church holidays and weddings and funerals in need of original music, plus — in his free time — weekly appearances at the Café Zimmerman coffeehouse, where Bach loosened up by conducting his secular works. Multimedia Tafelmusik concert immerses audience in Bach’s creative cycle 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

In César Franck's "Prelude, Chorale and Fugue," a homage to Bach via Beethoven, Schumann and Liszt, Perahia sustained a mystical mood. Murray Perahia evokes suspense, sadness and exhilaration at Disney Hall 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

The flutist Eugenia Zukerman, who referred to herself and other veteran performers as “antique Y.C.A. artists,” hosted the opening segment of the marathon, devoted to Bach. Music Review: Celebrating 50 Years? Worth of Promising Talent 2011-02-21T23:03:25Z

Bach wrote a number of cantatas that have not survived. The worst of Bach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

The dances gathered in this collection probably began life as educational pieces for members of the Bach family. CD reviews: A cellist’s solo “Trance.” 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

His 1998 recording of the four Bach suites, rhythmically incisive and displaying startlingly clear textures, remains one of the best of many. Academy of Ancient Music takes on Bach in Disney Hall debut 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

People automatically assume Bach was this dry, dour, mathematical composer. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z

For his stunning series “Suburbia,” a decade-long look at the marginalized youth of the Parisian suburbs in the aftermath of the banlieue riots of 2005, Bach shot his photos in black and white. Stranded in Marseille 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

No one would think the music of Bach lacking in feeling, even though it is just as obsessed with harmony and order as the paintings of Poussin. A passion for Nicolas Poussin 2011-02-14T16:09:31Z

The overall performance was directed by Simon Halsey, who led the chorus in the Berlin Philharmonic’s wrenching staged account of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” at the Park Avenue Armory in 2014. ‘The Public Domain’: Cherished Harmony in a Splintered Nation 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

In that concerto Bach gives the pianist the dual roles of soloist and accompanist. Music Review: Piotr Anderszewski’s Bach Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-09T22:11:03Z

Hence the congenial night at the Hollywood Bowl Thursday entitled "From Bach to Bluegrass." The Philharmonic dances through Bach and bluegrass at the Bowl 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

The Bach suite was unfailingly musical, each phrase shaped with dynamic contrasts and a luxurious legato that would do a Chopin nocturne proud. Review | Murray Perahia recital packed with canonic masterpieces, to uneven effect 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

No matter, Bach’s woodwinds carried the day once the performance sorted itself out after a confused opening. 4x4 Baroque Music Festival Presents ‘The Grand Overture’ 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bell rarely performs Bach in public, while Mr. Denk is a superb Bach interpreter. Music Review | Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk: Inflections: Proustian and Jazzy 2010-02-25T22:01:00Z

Often he magnified notions he heard in the Bach originals. Music Review: Gil Shaham and Pablo Heras-Casado at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-04T20:23:00Z

The Allemande movement from Bach’s Suite No. 6 in D Major was enough to make listeners wish for an all-Bach evening from this remarkable player. The audience was ready for Dvorák, and SSO’s cellist delivered 2014-03-28T16:07:36Z

Alas, no aspect of it could possibly have been part of Bach’s understanding. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter if it is Bach or rock.” Richard Hayman, Pops Conductor, Dies at 93 2014-02-07T01:11:04Z

Armed with hot lines to the long-departed souls of Mozart, Handel, Bach and all earlier composers, they told you how this music had to go. Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z

Judge not, lest ye be judged, a wise man said; the implication is unfavorable for those of us who imagine taking a seat behind Bach in heaven’s concert hall. The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The music overlaps Bach orchestral music with live singing of Moses Hogan’s “Elijah Rock,” performed by vocalists from the Hattiloo Theater in Memphis. Review: Ballet Memphis Shatters Basic Rules 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

This spiritual question pervades Bach’s passion and usually comes through in a good performance. Berlin Philharmonic Performs 'St. Matthew Passion' at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Ringo Starr, the only other surviving member of the "Fab Four", and his wife Barbara Bach were among the guests at the wedding. Ex-Beatle McCartney says "I Do" for third time 2011-10-10T12:28:31Z

In songs and arias by Dowland, Handel, Purcell, Monteverdi, Pergolesi and Bach, Ms. de Niese’s voice is sweet but brittle, her interpretations game but low impact. Classical Recordings : Danielle de Niese?s ?Beauty of the Baroque? ? Review 2011-12-22T15:23:48Z

Bach’s monumental set of Six Suites for Solo Cello, while universally regarded with great reverence, are nonetheless works that require bold artistic choices and interpretive daring to bring to life. Alisa Weilerstein woos in romantic reading of Bach Cello Suites 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Bach pushed the boundaries of contrapuntal possibility in “The Art of Fugue.” Seattle Phil concert focuses on late works by the greats 2013-01-10T22:01:56Z

"Bach's reality is a very special place," she said. Twyla Tharp is marking her 50-year anniversary by looking ahead 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

“Final Cut,” Steven Bach’s book about the making of “Heaven’s Gate,” really brought home how much fear and ego dominate in Hollywood. Andrew McCarthy Harbors a Secret Fantasy to Play Fagin 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Lutherans like Bach certainly would have condemned as a grievous sin of idolatry any notion that the essence of a piece of music is, or turns into, the essence of God. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The choir comments, rather in the style of the turba choruses in Bach's passions. BBC Singers/London Sinfonietta/Atherton ? review 2011-08-22T14:57:59Z

One of our most searching and consequential players of Bach continues her “Bach Odyssey,” a multiyear project devoted to the composer’s complete keyboard works. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Bach and most of his contemporaries, however, don’t seem to have understood sacred and secular to be mutually exclusive categories. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday the accordion makes an unexpected appearance in unusual arrangements of works by Bach and Rameau as part of a program, “Baroque Remix,” that also features works by Hertel and Vivaldi. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 5-Dec.11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Chris Christodoulou Bach's supreme ability to use order and clarity to express the inexpressible while also taking outrageous harmonic risks was nowhere more evident than in Joanna MacGregor's peerless interpretation of the Goldberg Variations. Nabucco; Bach Marathon; Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott – review 2013-04-06T23:06:25Z

I can imagine Mozart happily sipping wine at the Kaplan Penthouse while hearing a Bach partita for solo violin or being shaken and fascinated by a Thomas Adès string quartet. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

But what could be more wonderful than Bach, Beethoven and Schubert, the greatest of the Romantics? Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

LaFarge writes passionately about Bach’s influence on Chopin, and the virtues of listening to period pianos to know what Chopin heard and imagined. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

Gould turned the classical-music world upside down in 1955 with his unusually personal rendition of Bach's "Goldberg Variations," still a classic. 'Genius Within': A personal view of eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould 2010-10-14T20:41:00Z

Mr. Bach called him with the good news that Houghton Mifflin had offered $7,500 for the book. Pat Conroy, Author of ‘The Prince of Tides’ and ‘The Great Santini,’ Dies at 70 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

Ferrier fans, and those curious to learn more, can enjoy the 14 discs included in a Decca boxed set, featuring trademark works by composers including Bach and Mahler, and the English songs she frequently sang. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z

The music of Bach, as every Bargemusic regular knows, was Ms. Bloom’s greatest passion. Music Review: Blair McMillen Plays Morton Feldman at Bargemusic - Review 2011-12-05T22:44:34Z

“Obviously, Bach is not a complete fraud,” Isha Aran wrote on Jezebel, conceding that Bach’s résumé remains an impressive one even without the cello suites. The Search for Mrs. Bach 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

In that respect, he sees no difference from deducing the structure of a Bach fugue. Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga 2012-07-01T11:56:51Z

In an animated three-hour interview last week, Mr. Palmieri referred to works by Bach, Chopin and, especially, Debussy that he admires and has studied. Eddie Palmieri Ties Together Musical Genres 2012-12-13T22:49:44Z

A younger contemporary of Bach, Pergolesi died 20 years before Mozart’s birth, yet much of the Stabat Mater sounds much closer to Mozart than to Bach. Music Review: Sacred Works by Pergolesi at Church of the Epiphany 2010-03-29T21:11:00Z

Court records show Pamela Bach entered the plea Thursday in a Los Angeles court and was sentenced to 90 days. Hasselhoff's ex wife sentenced to jail in DUI case 2010-04-23T21:36:00Z

Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” is one of the most celebrated compositions in the Western canon, a pinnacle of musical inventiveness within a strict structure. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

In that case, Mr. Tepfer indulged in “complete messing around” with Bach, as he put it in a recent phone interview. A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Aimard, a Carter champion, gave a lengthy introduction to the work before performing it with members of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe as part of the Bach and Polyphonies series. Music Review: Ensemble Basiani?s Georgian Fare at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-17T22:40:00Z

You hear hints of Bach and Mozart, strands of Italian opera, the virtuosic piano music of the day and more in this teeming 35-minute piece. Camerata RCO Joins the Pianist Weiyin Chen at SubCulture 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

But Brahms also looks back at Bach with a formal fugue in the Finale. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

They engage in poetically disjointed choreography, set to music that ranges from Bach violin sonatas to swinging orchestrations of “Volare.” Movie Review: Spalding Gray on Video in ‘Wooster Group’s Rumstick Road’ 2014-04-30T21:34:06Z

His inspired leadership of the 10 players in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto, No 3 in G, BWV1048, which opened the evening, made it a vibrant counterpart to the Kurtág and thought-provoking, too. Orchestra of WNO/Koenigs - review 2011-01-23T18:22:54Z

No composer elevated dance music to higher spiritual grounds than Bach did. The Philharmonic dances through Bach and bluegrass at the Bowl 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

“And After the Fire,” partly based in history, posits the rediscovery of a fictional Bach church cantata with a particularly bilious text. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

The Calov volumes also provide insight into Bach’s professional and personal concerns, showing that he understood himself less as a modern artist than as a preacher who was following his religious vocation. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

A century later, Brahms looked back to Bach as a model and in opposition to his nemesis Wagner, who signified music of the future. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Still, Shostakovich’s homage to Bach largely remains on the outskirts of the standard repertory. Alexander Melnikov Records Shostakovich Preludes 2010-07-04T02:16:00Z

Bach is a world — and pianist Simone Dinnerstein is one of its most celebrated and, to a few cranky listeners, controversial inhabitants at the moment. Pianist Simone Dinnerstein brings her brand of Bach to Seattle 2011-01-06T22:08:07Z

Andras Schiff has been performing both as pianist and conductor with the New York Philharmonic this week, in a program including concertos by Bach and Schumann and orchestral works by Haydn and Bartok. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Owner Kristen Bach has constructed a dream world of clothes, art projects, books, and colorful knitted plush toys. Insider's Guide to Athens 2012-08-07T02:20:04.667Z

We push on lighting through the second half of Bach: three trios, two quartets, first circle, second death, echo, triple canon, frog, fugue, football, yoga, stroll, finale, last circle. Twyla Tharp’s Premiere Week: The Stage Ship Sails 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Katharina Bach, who is just 38, brings unexpected vitality and deep pathos to her portrayal of Anne, an elderly music teacher who is paralyzed by a stroke. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. McGrath hired Julie Bach, founder of Wellness for Cancer, a nonprofit that educates spas on how to provide cancer wellness services, to train the hotel’s spa therapists. At These Hotels and Spas, Cancer Is No Obstacle to Quality Care 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

Our financial woes are not the result of spending our funds on lattes and other small luxuries, like David Bach says. The personal finance industry can’t save us 2013-03-06T20:53:00Z

On Saturday, an evening built around Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G, ushers handed out playbills that listed composers’ names but not their biographies, inspirations or influences. Review: ‘Fragments’ Proposes a New Kind of Cello Recital 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

And Tan Dun’s “Water Passion,” written as a response to Bach, will be performed at the Temple of Dendur in the museum’s Sackler Wing. Met Museum to Expand Its Musical Offerings With New Breuer Space 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

The lesson Mendelssohn would one day learn from Bach is that of musical implication. Generous renditions of Mendelssohn and Bach balance youth and experience 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Ironically, Gustavo Dudamel made more of an effort to bring an early music flavor to Bach's Third Orchestral Suite last season at Walt Disney Concert Hall than McGegan did with the First in the Bowl. The Philharmonic dances through Bach and bluegrass at the Bowl 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Festival highlights include Christopher Taylor playing Bach's "Goldberg Variations," a staged production of Mozart's " Don Giovanni" and Nicholas McGegan leading the Academy Chamber Orchestra in an evening of Bach, Handel and Beethoven. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z

Yes, it does work – the bell-like quality of uke player King's Bach performances takes this little instrument to new heights. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

And some of his plans involving older music are timely, like a major series focused on Bach. Critic?s Notebook: Alan Gilbert and New York Philharmonic?s 2012-13 Season 2012-03-04T23:06:44Z

Ms. Kozena’s plush singing was touched with sensuality, a quality made more explicit by the way she massaged the burdened, sore shoulders of Mr. Padmore’s Evangelist as she sang Bach’s yearning phrases. Berlin Philharmonic Performs 'St. Matthew Passion' at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Many classic works of art are, in effect, commercials, from Pindar’s epinician, or victory, odes to Bach’s church cantatas. Can a Musical Sponsored by a Toilet Manufacturer Be a Work of Art? 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

In The Cookbook Collector - which comes out in the UK this week - Jessamine Bach saves redwood trees. How to turn a great American novel into a Great one 2011-02-17T09:49:44Z

Scored with Bach, the film nearly resists drama. ‘Bitterbrush’ Review: Alone on the Range 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

“Morning Pro Musica” began like the dawn—with several minutes of birdsong, chirping and warbling, which eventually transitioned into, say, Bach. “Slow Radio,” The Podcast That Promotes Monks, Moose, and Inner Peace 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

"The rules for qualification have been established by the International Weightlifting Federation before the qualifications started," IOC President Thomas Bach said during a press conference in Tokyo on July 17. 8 of the biggest ways the Summer Olympics are different in Tokyo this year 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Among his other duties, Bach was required to write sacred music for Sunday church services and special occasions. SSO, Pacific MusicWorks each to put on a Bach Passion 2014-02-20T19:58:01Z

Sung excerpts from the leaked war logs take on the unnervingly lulling rhythms of the Evangelist’s recitatives in Bach’s Passions, while passages from Ms. Manning’s Internet chats elicit warmer, more human vocalism. ‘The Source,’ an Oratorio About Chelsea Manning’s Leaks 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Bach benefited most from the fluid ease of Marsh’s approach: the chorus resilient and the soloists confident. Review | Bach Consort celebrates new year, new leader 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Scheide’s original plan was to require a German museum to buy it at its appraised price after his death, but last year he changed his mind and left it to the Bach archive outright. A Bach Portrait, Heading to Germany, Gets Musical Send-Off 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, she comes to Seattle to play solo-piano selections from her new CD, "Bach: A Strange Beauty," giving local music lovers a chance to hear what the fuss is all about. Pianist Simone Dinnerstein brings her brand of Bach to Seattle 2011-01-06T22:08:07Z

Bach, who originated the role in Berkeley, trusts that Will's truth will emerge from all that remains unsaid. 'Girlfriend' visits the sweet, tender and perilous summer love of two young men 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

The Miller’s season will open on Sept. 28 with the pianist Simone Dinnerstein and the self-conducted chamber orchestra A Far Cry playing works by Bach and Philip Glass, the start of a Bach series. Six Composers Are Ready for Their Miller Theater Portraits 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

It seems he's still making his case for the piece, for it's part of his Meany Hall debut tonight, along with items by Bach, Liszt and Ives. Denk, a Seattle favorite, returns 2010-03-30T18:17:00Z

She then closed her eyes to listen to Halls play the uplifting Bach chorale “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.” An Organ Recital, With a Coronavirus Shot 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

Saturday’s concert offered a fascinating cross section of styles, in German works for multiple harpsichords, two in each case except for the Bach blowout. Artek Celebrates the German Harpsichord 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Bach was not available for consultation, but she is subjecting his suites to the same treatment. A Cellist Breaks Music Into ‘Fragments,’ Then Connects Them 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

One simple question to Mr. Gordon, the featured composer, would suffice: What does Bach mean to you? Music in Review: Performances by Sasha Cooke, Escher String Quartet and Ensemble Signal 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

I had heard about the success of this superstar cellist’s performance of the six Bach solo suites for his instrument at the 18,000-seat Hollywood Bowl in 2017. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Bach's “Trauernacht” cantatas with soloists and instrumentalists of the European Academy of Music. Trip Tips: Mozart to Masekela, summer festivals for all tastes 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Setting to movement the six lively baroque gems known as the “Brandenburg” Concertos, composed by Bach in the early 18th century, is an ambitious task but one well suited to this highly regarded Belgian choreographer. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Bach, 76, is known to be a keen aviator. Author Richard Bach crashes plane 2012-09-01T20:57:31Z

I suppose that can be applied to any music, but there’s something about Bach which is so timeless, and so sublime, and so human, that it’s universally touching. Does the Pressure of a Pandemic Transform a Cellist’s Bach? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

But the resulting “ritualization” of Bach’s oratorio, captured on DVD, is most riveting and moving. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z

Last week, Ma appeared on CBS' "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert," accompanying ballet dancer Misty Copeland to a piece by Bach. Yo-Yo Ma plays himself on 'The Simpsons' -- and performs theme song 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tetzlaff, though best known for his patrician interpretations of Bach and Brahms, was entirely in his element here. Music Review: Having Fun Across Generations 2010-12-20T22:45:45Z

And sure enough, there were times when I thought I discerned, faintly, the ghost of Johann Sebastian Bach. Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Music Wanders the Park Avenue Armory 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Bach and Beethoven haunted new and recent works; the pianist Vikingur Olafsson treated Mozart, as he likes to say, as if the ink had just dried on the score. At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

And in fact Bach practiced both, also writing some music that is secular. Twyla Tharp on the Road: Shut Up and Dance 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

The choir reassembled up front for elegant, clear-textured accounts of two sublime Bach motets, accompanied only by continuo cello and chamber organ. Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

It is a revelation, from the incandescence of her Toccata from Widor’s Fifth Symphony to the jazzy angularity of Jean Berveiller’s “Mouvement”; the reverence of her Bach chorale preludes to the fury of her Liszt. She Was an Organist for the Ages 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Besides Bach himself, Gould is the central figure in Paul Elie's book, which tells the story of how 20th-century sound recording and distribution added a new dimension to Bach's music. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z

Early influences included Bach and Debussy — whom he once called “the door to all 20th century music” — and he discovered modern jazz as he fell in with a crowd of hipster rebels as a teenager. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Oscar-Winning Japanese Composer, Dies at 71 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

According to the Swiss J. S. Bach Foundation, which is behind the project, the series will have covered all of his cantatas, masses, oratorios and motets by 2030. Review: Ekmeles Performs John Cage at the Avant Music Festival 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

Frontman of the irresistible Punch Brothers, a progressive bluegrass band, he also composes and plays Bach. The Week Ahead: Mar. 19 ? 24 2012-03-16T16:22:18Z

But Bernstein, speaking in 1957, was addressing listeners who regarded Bach as dry, the province of Sunday church services and specialist early-music groups. 2010-02-15T16:59:00Z

It's at the forefront on her new record, "Night of Hunters," a concept record based on compositions by the likes of Bach and Chopin that find Amos joined with chamber music accompaniment. Tori Amos at Chicago Theatre 2011-12-11T13:40:00Z

That challenge was most evident in “New Bach,” a 2001 work choreographed by Robert Garland. Darrell Grand Moultrie brings ‘Vessels’ to Harman Center for the Arts

But the Bach preludes and fugues look as beautiful on the page as they sound. Pierre-Laurent Aimard Plays Bach at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Both concerto and divertimento were written in Mozart's teens, barely after the end of the Baroque era, a scant generation after the deaths of Handel and Bach. Guest conductor lends expert touch to SSO Mozart program 2012-05-04T17:02:04Z

And now, after a career spent wrestling with, and reinventing aspects of, Bach’s seething Passions, Mr. Adams has composed his own. Music Review: ‘The Gospel According to the Other Mary,’ by John Adams 2012-06-01T21:51:19Z

Whitehead has been less daunted, and wears the implications of completing Bach lightly. Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

Anthony Tommasini Many pianists make a whole program of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. The Week Ahead: Feb.13 ? 19 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

I sing some Bach, some lieder, because I want to make sure everything's OK. Mattei takes `step up' to role in `Parsifal' 2013-02-26T20:25:11Z

Bach’s music in the cantatas, as Richard Taruskin noted in The New York Times almost two decades ago, “was a medium of truth, not beauty.” What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

From March 30 through April 1, Mr. Kavakos conducts and performs with the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne, Germany, in a program of works by Bach, Beethoven and Sibelius; leonidaskavakos.com. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Zankel Hall 2014-03-05T23:16:12Z

The subject of the pianist Marc-André Hamelin’s latest album is Bach — no, not that one. Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One) 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Bach wouldn’t do, Wagner was too heavy, Beethoven too dramatic, so I chose the “Liebesleid,” a salon trifle by the great violinist Fritz Kreisler. Perspective | ‘Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning’: A son escapes into music after his mother’s death 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

He made a series of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms recordings that mixed a modern, clear-eyed freshness with a clear-eared regard for classical tradition. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Suzuki drew focused sound and clear textures from the ensemble, allowing Bach’s piercing harmonies to penetrate without expressive excess. In a Mass, a Cradle of Consolation for Japan 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z

At the forefront of musicians who brought classical to new audiences in nontraditional venues, he discovered the Tractor some years back when he played the Bach Cello Suites there. Next at the Tractor Tavern: fortepiano and cello 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

For his encore, he said he was dedicating an intense, stirring performance of the Sarabande movement from Bach’s First Solo Cello Suite to Hillary Clinton and to Leonard Cohen. The next new Finnish star conductor takes the stand in Disney Hall 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

“Fragments,” a 2006 concerto dedicated to Bach and Thelonious Monk, features an improvised piano solo. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

At 11, Paul stood on the lawn of St. Elizabeths Hospital, the Washington psychiatric institution, and played Bach for his father’s friend Ezra Pound, a resident there. Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

On any given day, you may not be in the mood for George Eliot, Jane Austen, Beethoven, Bach or the Beatles. Perspective | Maradona was great, and maybe the greatest. Can we make similar claims about artists? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

The musically glorious performance, with Simon Rattle conducting his Berlin Philharmonic, marked the latest collaboration between Mr. Rattle and Mr. Sellars, but it lacked the emotional directness of their acclaimed “ritualizations” of the Bach Passions. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Stages a Musically Glorious ‘Vixen’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Best of all, perhaps, is the playful Aria variata, a youthful work foreshadowing Bach’s mastery of the variations form. Classical Playlist: Puccini, Mendelssohn, Wagner and More 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

In that film, in a scene of trivializing vulgarity, Spielberg joins a scene of S.S. officers’ murderous raid of an apartment building’s Jewish residents to a performance of a Bach keyboard work. Review: Lars Von Trier’s Empty, Repugnant Provocations “The House That Jack Built” 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Most of Bach’s harpsichord concertos, she explained, were composed initially for other instruments, often violin. Music Review: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at Zankel Hall ? Review 2011-11-21T23:08:19Z

Much of Dr. Lewis’s career revolved around two great edifices: Washington National Cathedral and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. J. Reilly Lewis, organist, choral director and Bach authority, dies at 71 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

And it's technical, demanding work, with a lot of contrasting physical styles and music by composers like Johnny Cash, Bach and Gnarls Barkley. Darren and Susan Pritchard: 'Working together has been a life-changing experience' 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z

Several years ago, he tells me, he abandoned listening to Beethoven and Shostakovich quartets as he worked, in favour of Bach and Schubert. Leon Kossoff's love affair with London 2013-04-27T10:00:04Z

Ms. Hewitt, considered one of the world’s leading interpreters of Bach’s piano works, will offer a full cycle of 12 recitals in the space, mirroring similar programs in New York, Ottawa and London. Around the World With Music 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

Then he would put a steak — a Bach suite, and it was also common those days to play a concerto. Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Not that Mr. Kirchner’s magnificent chords, as Daniel Phillips described them from the stage, were slighted, let alone those of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Performances at the 92nd Street Y and the Brooklyn Academy 2010-04-20T22:44:00Z

Count on Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major as one of the highlights. 18 top entertainment picks, Oct. 23-29 2011-10-19T22:58:08Z

From the first strains of Bach in “Concerto Barocco,” and throughout, the corps of eight women attacked the steps with enlivening snap, pouncing on Bach’s and Balanchine’s rhythms and making the clean, contrapuntal patterns crackle. New York City Ballet in a Broad Program at the Koch Theater 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Performing artists are giving concerts online, too, from cellist Yo-Yo Ma playing Bach on Twitter to the Metropolitan Opera streaming archived performances free. Perspective | The arts will recover from the coronavirus, as they did after 9/11. But they might look a lot different. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

Nigel Kennedy, always on hand to thumb his nose at the establishment, proceeded to do so at the entire modern tradition of solo Bach playing. The Proms 2011: week three in review 2011-08-10T15:32:29Z

Its also a very American-sounding piece, with strains of Copland as prominent as the strains of Bach. Delightful evening of Bach, and those he inspired, at SSO 2011-10-29T17:24:05Z

Phil, of Bach’s Concerto in A Minor, as well as works by Brahms and Elgar. Essential Arts & Culture: Leonard Bernstein at 100, MLK tribute, peeling back the White House facade 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Demutsky’s music is melodic and serviceable, incorporating quotations from patriotic Soviet themes, Bach, Lully and various ballet scores, as the narrative demands. ‘Nureyev’ Opens at Bolshoi After Delay and Much Speculation 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

"I played a vast repertoire of Rachmaninov, Schumann, Chopin and Bach." Neil Sedaka: 'My great love is classical music' 2012-10-12T16:47:00Z

In 1968, he caused a scandal with “Credo,” which juxtaposed Bach themes with manic, ferocious outbursts, though the scandal concerned less the music than its use of religious texts, taboo in the Soviet Union. Arvo Pärt, sounding the depth of still waters

No matter, it was a banner day for the Bachs, the glorious masters and the inglorious fake. Review: Bach at St. Paul’s, and the Fictional Relative, P.D.Q., at Town Hall 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

She follows Bach’s instructions to perform in a “cantabile” style, the melodic lines always emerging with crystalline clarity over the counterpoint. Classical Playlist: Villegas, Praetorius, and Boulez's Mozart 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

This year’s free memorial program presents the violinist Mark Peskanov; the pianist and composer David Bottoms; the String Orchestra of Brooklyn; and others in works by Bach, Barber, Beethoven and more. A Sept. 11 Memorial at Bargemusic and a Juilliard Faculty Show 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sellars’s Bach staging will open the festival, with two performances at the Park Avenue Armory, which has lately become a favored site for spectacular productions, and it has ample star power. From Bach to Mavis Staples: The White Light Festival 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The violinist Mark Peskanov, Bargemusic’s director, leads two concerts of remembrance for the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, with music by Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Brahms and others. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

In a way, he did: as he traced Bach’s increasingly free-spirited writing in the final three sonatas, his phrasing grew more outgoing. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann, Alan Gilbert and Enrico Pace - Review 2011-10-13T22:20:12Z

Touching on Bach, spirituals and contemporary art music, the concert was a compelling reconceptualization of the recital format from an artist who molded his warm, strong voice like clay in a bracingly vulnerable, honest performance. Review: Davóne Tines Hones the Recital Form to a Fine Point 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Paul Elie begins his intriguingly titled “Reinventing Bach” with a charming anecdote that seems, at first, a neat frame for his argument. Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z

Before playing Beethoven’s Opus 109 Piano Sonata, Mr. Sherman spoke briefly about his decision to include it in the program and about what Schoenberg learned from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.  Music Review: A Piano Tour of Schoenberg?s Career 2011-06-16T22:11:12Z

The young hero is a fan of Beethoven and Bach. The Rolling Stones: a career in quotes 2013-06-26T12:29:44Z

Mr. Harbison took an interest in Bach cantatas as a child and nurtured it over the decades, working with the Bach Society Orchestra at Harvard and the Cantata Singers and Emmanuel Music in Boston. Music Review: Bach Cantatas at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-12-08T23:12:37Z

The Bach dance is a male-female duet in which an enigmatic relationship keeps us in suspense. Review: Ballet Arizona Performs ‘Round’ in a Dreamy Desert Ambience 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

The distinction matters, because if these works are to gain wider circulation, they should be understood for what they are: music of Bach the musical preacher. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Fittingly, "In My Life" features producer George Martin's wistful piano solo, which he later described as his "Bach inversion." The genius of the Beatles' "Rubber Soul" 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z

The orchestra and chorus were mostly fine throughout, and Mr. Suzuki, an old hand at Bach, supplied canny direction and pacing. Review: Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Young Musicians in Bach 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Mendelssohn's Bach and our Rodgers and Hammerstein reconstructions share a common point: people need time before they are ready to listen with open ears to works that have become "unfashionable". Rodgers and Hammerstein: the Mozarts of the 20th century 2010-08-11T20:45:00Z

“This is a portrait of how I play Bach in my 30s,” Ms. Hahn said of her new album. Hilary Hahn Returns to Bach, 21 Years Older. And Maybe Wiser. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Bach’s keyboard suites should leap off the page and tickle the ear. CD reviews: A cellist’s solo “Trance.” 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

It began rather awkwardly, however, with a heavy-handed performance of Bach's Fifth English Suite, in which a sense of ruminative introspection intruded upon the music's linear clarity. Alessandro Taverna ? review 2012-02-10T18:15:42Z

Bach’s notations bear witness to a life of conservative Lutheran observance. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Yet in his setting of Bach's Cello Suite in D minor, Oguike rises to the challenge with inquisitive playfulness. Ballet Black | Dance review 2010-03-25T23:30:00Z

“The Fugue,” the 1970 work that put her on the dance map, is inspired by Bach’s complex rhythms. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

The program also included an orchestral transcription of another Bach chorale: Edmundo Villani-Côrtes’s version of “Awake, the Voice Commands,” a showcase for the ensemble’s glowing strings. Music Review: The Power of Bach, the Comfort of Morricone 2010-09-20T23:21:00Z

Richard Bach is best known for "Jonathan Livingston Seagull," a tale published in 1970 of a gull seeking to rise above the conventions of his flock. Injured author Richard Bach in 'sort of a daze,' son says 2012-09-10T03:24:04Z

The first work is Bach’s Partita in A minor. A Flutist Steps Into the Solo Spotlight 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

This Quebeçois ensemble and its affiliated choir, La Chapelle de Québec, performs Bach’s Mass in B Minor under the guidance of Bernard Labadie. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

It is a remarkable piece, the music of Bach at its most “Space Odyssey”—now sparkling, now sermonizing. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

A highly regarded teacher, she has relocated to the Southwest and has recently performed with Bach festivals in California, Arizona and Texas. Gallery Concerts’ ‘Strike the Viol’ presents two concerts of English music from the 1580s to the 1680s 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Bach, much admired by the young Mozart, generally wrote in major keys but deviated on the Symphony in G minor, resulting in a dramatic, expressive work. Seattle Symphony celebrates baroque dads 2012-03-01T20:54:05Z

For 90 minutes, all in the same key, and mostly in the same meter, Bach burrows deeper and deeper into a single theme, constructing increasingly complex fractal designs. Pianist Angela Hewitt performs Bach’s ‘The Art of Fugue’ at Shriver Hall in Baltimore

Still, his is an intimate tenor voice, ideally suited to the Evangelist in Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion,” and, as this new recording again demonstrates, the lieder repertory. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Haydn, Steve Reich and More 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

Writing in 1728, Bach evidently drew heavily on the near-contemporaneous “St. Matthew Passion,” so most of the tunes — and what tunes! — will be familiar, but the texts will not. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

In his acknowledgments, Mr. Bach said Mr. Lescher “was the spiritual father to the book and to its author as well.” Robert Lescher, Literary Agent, Is Dead at 83 2012-12-07T02:40:48Z

She played tentatively in the Bach and was similarly unsteady after intermission in an arrangement of Ravel’s “Pavane for a Dead Princess” for violin and strings. Music Review: Bachanalia at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:21Z

But every composer takes off from Bach in a different direction, perhaps adopting the same instrumentation, the same overall contour or the same spirit; perhaps none of the above. Music Review: Something Borrowed and Something New 2011-05-08T22:19:30Z

One of them’s about reality TV, and one’s about a woman who coughs up J. S. Bach in her apartment. “Morrissey’s hair, bongs made of apples, MTV’s 120 Minutes”: Inside this month’s hottest new books 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Bach says all Brazilians "can be very proud tonight," then went on to talk about the importance of these Olympics. The Latest: De Lima lights the Olympic cauldron 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

It's hard to imagine Gordon Brown or David Cameron saying the same about a pile of old autograph manuscripts and a few memorabilia such as Anna Magdalena Bach's thimble. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z

He has also recorded much of Bach's instrumental music.  Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan's impeccable taste shows at Disney Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, music by Bach was prominent, ending each half of the concert. Music Review: Visitors Lift Up Their Voices to Bach and More 2011-05-24T21:09:19Z

Two hundred years after his birth, he remains – with Bach – the largest enduring contemporary presence of all the great composers. Wagner bicentenary: the music is still what matters most 2013-05-21T23:59:01Z

Her dances were set to a broad variety of scores, from Bach to 1930s cartoon music to familiar popular songs of the time, including “The Way We Were.” Beverly Blossom, Solo Dancer With a ‘Voice,’ Dies at 88 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

The book really is very much about the importance of religion to an understanding of Bach’s music. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

People were starting to play light classical pieces on it — little Mozart pieces, little Bach pieces and pop music of the day. | Westchester: The New York Banjo Summit Is at Tarrytown Music Hall This Week 2013-01-12T02:55:29Z

A former department store is giving way to the Tech Valley Center of Gravity, a start-up incubator, which joins the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, a Beaux-Arts stage for comedy, bluegrass and Bach. A Town on New York’s Hudson River Reinvents Itself 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Under the direction of Ton Koopman the young musicians will perform Bach’s simmering Mass in B minor at Alice Tully Hall. Classical Music Listings for Nov. 18-24 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Bach was surely aware of the new trends. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

A fugue was given the intensity of Bach. Review: All-star piano trio leaves listeners with a royal flush 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Ostensibly, “My Love Story” is occasioned by recent events in the rock ’n’ roll icon’s life: her 2013 marriage to her longtime partner Erwin Bach, and her subsequent health problems, including kidney failure and cancer. Rock-Your-World Moments Fill New Music Memoirs From Tina Turner and a Disillusioned Hit Maker 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

On Saturday it was as if Mr. Schiff were channeling Bach, not just performing him. Music Review: András Schiff Plays ‘Well-Tempered Clavier,’ at 92nd Street Y 2012-10-28T21:36:40Z

Bach: The Golden Anniversary” at Town Hall on Monday evening was cause for giddy celebration. Review: Bach at St. Paul’s, and the Fictional Relative, P.D.Q., at Town Hall 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

With a glinting, coppery tone, Capuçon gave the opening phrase — a Baroque homage that nods to Bach’s Invention No. 13 — a cunning flicker of darkness and light. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

The painting owned by Mr. Scheide, a lifelong admirer of the composer who founded the Bach Aria Group, a renowned performing ensemble, in 1946, is the slightly later of two versions by Haussmann. A Bach Portrait, Heading to Germany, Gets Musical Send-Off 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Those are qualities ideal for contrapuntal Bach — the Overture to the Fourth Orchestral Suite was the curtain-raiser — and for a necessary unsweetening of saccharine Barber. Gemma New test-drives the Long Beach Symphony with an interesting, ambitious program 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

And, at Fleck’s request, he’s even learning some Bach for their first duo record. An Unlikely Fiddler’s Dream 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

By contrast he took the high sophistication and complexity of Bach’s “Musical Offering” and, in 1985, made it into a work of forceful dance primitivism. Paul Taylor: Return of the Beloved Renegade 2010-02-19T16:07:00Z

May Bach and his composing and performing colleagues help us all on what promises to be a long road to recovery. Bach in My Heart, and My Heart in His Hands 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

By contrast, all of Beethoven's rhythmic quirkiness and ebullience emerged with considerable conviction in the theme and ensuing 15 variations, the final fugue imbued with the spirit of Bach, yet bearing Beethoven's unmistakably classical stamp. Angela Hewitt ? review 2011-03-27T21:30:02Z

His bête noire was the widespread notion that Beethoven symphonies and Bach cantatas could be divorced from their historical contexts. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Bach was first reported missing during the early morning hours on Friday after she did not return home. Murder charges expected in slaying of Portage woman 2011-09-19T11:16:00Z

The group's debut, Beloved Symphony, featuring light opera renditions of Mozart, Bach and Chopin, was deemed insufficiently classic for inclusion on the classical charts. God gave rock'n'roll to you ? but not for this! 2011-04-08T23:05:00Z

With a poetic, often enigmatic libretto by Alice Goodman, the work is consciously modeled on the Bach Passions, with Bach’s Evangelist metamorphosed into the opera’s nameless Captain, helplessly recalling the loss of his ship. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

He does not, and cannot—I want to believe—rate the blues below Bach. Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Even the pedal point of a Bach cantata has a drone going through it. Songwriter With a Global Guitar 2011-05-09T22:00:27Z

“The clean articulation and remarkable clarity in all registers makes them perfect vehicles not only for the works of J. S. Bach but for accompaniment and a wide variety of solo repertoires.” Artek Celebrates the German Harpsichord 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Bach might not seem the obvious choice for a bit of iconoclastic smash-and-grab. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

In a way, Mr. Wolff added, what he called the “randomness” of the selections “makes the point better, in the range of construction, of features, of the tricks Bach uses.” What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

By the first work on the second half of the program, Bach’s “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 3, the orchestra had gained some tightness while staying well clear of transcendence. Music Review: ‘My Soul Rejoices’ at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola 2012-10-22T04:23:03Z

Every music textbook still recounts how Mendelssohn, merely 20 years old, triggered a 19th-century Bach revival with his historic performance of the “St. Matthew Passion” in Berlin in 1829. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

It will likewise animate this concert, which includes the world premiere of “Three Pieces After Bach,” a commission inspired by J.S. Jazz Listings for Oct. 16-22 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

He stopped for a bit and then, as the caseload spiked once more this fall, recommenced, with a beautifully considered, poised yet yearning performance of Bach’s Partita in E Minor on Nov. 16. Best Classical Music of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

Looking at the frail instrument built in 1740, with all its strings missing, Mr. Elie writes of how amazing it is to think that the discolored keys “were worn down by Bach himself.” Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z

In the long skeins of notes in a Bach partita or fugue, Mr. Teshigawara’s choreography finds an aural counterpart, nearly becoming a kind of freehand music visualization. Review: Dancing in the Liquid Realm of Dreams 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Bach, by contrast, sometimes “sets up the trumpet to fail,” Mr. Thiessen said. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Bach’s cantatas, exalted as some of them seem, were utilitarian creations. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

“Dave wanted to do his homework,” said Joel Bach, a creator and executive producer of the series. David Letterman (and His Beard) Shop at Target These Days 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Washington Bach Consort continued its season of guest conductors who are auditioning to become the organization’s artistic director. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

I found Levit's new CD of Bach's Six Partitas nicely played, elegant even, but unremarkable. Igor Levit, the best Russian pianist you haven't heard...yet 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

It was no coincidence, he forcefully argued, that Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven were so well-regarded: Their popularity and acclaim represented the aftereffects of a long-unacknowledged, and deeply rooted, German nationalist ideology. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

The turkey platter of this Thanksgiving repast was Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, featuring nine solo string parts braided together. Review | The Knights weave old and new in concert of surprises at Dumbarton Oaks 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Between scenes Mozart, Bach and Beethoven describe passion's grander dimensions – music the ultimate alter ego. Passion Play – review 2013-05-11T23:05:16Z

Pick up champagne flutes and a scarf/tie clip adorned with the lobby’s rosette detail or buy a set of Bach wine glasses to toast your Wright sleepover. On the trail of Frank Lloyd Wright in Illinois and Wisconsin 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

They commission works to be played alongside Bach. Yo-Yo Ma does the impossible at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

Yes, the concert featured two fine flutists, Ransom Wilson and Tara Helen O’Connor, in works ranging from Bach to Henri Dutilleux. Review: The Quietly Cosmic Sound of Desert Stillness 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

This is paired with Robbins’s “The Goldberg Variations,” a handsome marathon set to Bach’s 90-minute score, played by solo piano. Dance Listings for Jan. 23-29 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

From autograph manuscripts that detail titles of the chorales, it’s clear that Bach planned to compose 164 of them, spread throughout the Christian liturgical year. Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

In recent months, he has emerged as one of three finalists to serve as the next artistic director of the renowned Oregon Bach Festival. Trinity Church Fires Conductor After Misconduct Accusation 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

On TikTok, Lapwood does get the occasional negative comment — such as a poster complaining about the expressively fluctuating tempo in her performance of a Bach toccata. On TikTok, an Organist Finds an Audience, and Herself 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

Yet for all its energy, it was a lighter, less intricate version of “Esplanade,” Mr. Taylor’s revered 1975 modern dance set to Bach based on pedestrian movement — walking, running, jumping and sliding. Review: In ‘Six Brandenburg Concertos,’ Diluting Bach’s Dancing Spirit 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

The St. Luke program, “A Bach Christmas,” was in some ways the most fascinating. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Under Bartoldus’s subtle direction, the Bach sounded totally alive and dramatic, with precise timing, careful balance and clear-cut phrasing. Chamber chorus Third Practice is a winner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Today, the “Orgelbüchlein,” as close as Bach ever came to a full hymnal, is a cornerstone of the organ repertory. Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

I did a little bit of that at NatsFest where I played some Bach. At Nationals Park in Washington, Van Hoose hits all the right notes 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

The Margrave, impressed, invited him to submit work, and Bach, keen at detecting opportunity, might well have seen a way out of small-city Cöthen, Germany. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Plays Bach 2013-12-17T22:02:05Z

A Bach devotee, Mrs. Gehrig had me learning several of his two-part inventions and my first prelude and fugue. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

For one thing, unusually for us, there are two concerts focused on Bach. Ingrid Matthews says farewell to Seattle Baroque Orchestra 2012-10-04T20:04:07Z

“This is meant to be a celebration of the pope being here,” said Penny Bach, director of the Association for Public Art. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Names Ellen Salpeter as Director 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

But her evening of Bach culminated in the sprawling, majestic Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 — the Everest of the violin repertory. Review: Hilary Hahn Plays an Unabashedly Romantic Bach 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Eunice depended on a white patron to pay for her lessons, and she remained fairly sequestered in the quiet, cloistered world of Miss Mazzy’s home, studying Bach and dreaming of a different path. Nina Simone, Diva Out of Carolina 2010-02-26T16:31:00Z

He will share some of it on Nov. 20, when he makes his debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, in a program that includes contemporary music alongside classics by Bach, Rachmaninoff and Schumann. Conrad Tao Was Never Just Another Prodigy 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

In the truest sign that this evening was more skillful than haphazard, the finale’s fugue, a flash of Bach, was satisfyingly precise — Cho and the violins aligned even in their fleet delivery. Review: Upended by Global Conflict, the Vienna Philharmonic Plays On 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

Bach did not care how he was perceived. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z

A Quebecois period-instrument ensemble brings Bach and, with it, a star soloist. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

With witty nods to Bach and Handel, Bizet and Gershwin, the remarkable score subsumes the oversized passions and preposterous romantic plots of classical opera into a lurid spectacle of American pulp fantasy. Trash TV goes highbrow in ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’ 2014-01-14T00:50:22Z

As Thomaskantor, Bach was responsible for music in the city’s major churches, St. Thomas and St. Nicholas. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

It’s been a while since I saw an NSO audience quite so excited; and she smilingly acknowledged the applause with a Bach encore, the Gigue from the 3rd violin partita. Review | How a young conductor and stunning violinist brought an NSO program to life 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Foss takes on nothing less than the great European heritage in his zany deconstructions of works by Handel, Scarlatti and Bach. Review: American Symphony Orchestra’s George Perle Centennial Tribute 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

This religious underpinning was the work’s connection to Bach, whose instrumental pieces are often as suffused with a sense of the sacred as his church works. Music Review: Gidon Kremer at White Light Festival at Tully Hall - Review 2011-10-24T21:15:05Z

The greatness Rattle ultimately brings to Bach is not purpose and meaning but uncertainty. A passionate Sellars-Rattle triumph with Bach's 'St. Matthew' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

This towering late collection of chorale preludes is not entry-level Bach, least of all for those unfamiliar with the chorale tunes themselves. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Bach's "Goldberg Variations," believed to be written for a German count suffering from insomnia. Composer Max Richter's project designed to lull listeners to 'Sleep' 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Bach and quarrelled with Voltaire, whom he brought to Prussia to be his court philosopher. Prussian and powerful 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Chopin’s teacher inculcated what would become a lifelong obsession with Bach in the young Chopin, Mendelssohn’s contemporary, in the early 1820s. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Tanowitz’s dances brim with inventive footwork and rigorous, often stringent choreography, in which the influence of Merce Cunningham is often apparent, yet the Bach has unleashed a more humane lushness in her approach. Who’s Afraid of ‘Goldberg Variations’? Not This Choreographer. 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Two years ago, in a program directed by the former dancer Damian Woetzel, Mr. Ma played unaccompanied Bach as children cavorted onstage. Music Review: Trolling Heaven and Earth for Sounds 2011-06-08T21:24:16Z

A Bach chaconne also inspired the final movement of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, which concluded the program and whose dark mood mirrors Mozart’s turbulent concerto. Review: Jeremy Denk in a Full-Blooded Performance at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

Juxtaposing Bach’s music with pieces of today is hardly an original idea; it tends to reveal the Baroque within the modern, and vice versa. Review: A Violinist Connects the Dots From Bach to the Present 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

Molloy is also classically trained, a double-bass player who shines new light on Bach through the prisms of jazz and funk. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

His Mozart, Haydn and Bach, for example, sound a bit ponderous by today’s standards. ‘George Szell: The Complete Columbia Album Collection’ Review: A Maestro’s Time in Cleveland Still Shines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Lately, in cooperation with Columbia University’s Miller Theater, he has been performing free solo programs of Bach’s cello suites along with new works by various composers in different locations around the campus. Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Like Bach’s large-scale choral works, this spellbinding piece draws on many styles masterfully juxtaposed, though Johnson’s sources are the American vernacular. CD reviews: ‘Considering Matthew Shepard,’ 18 years later 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

It’s also the largest, which may explain why its inhabitants seem more relaxed — although perhaps it’s the Bach and Pachelbel on the sound system. Fawning over fauna: A guide to Tokyo’s menagerie of animal cafes 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Olafsson insisted on something else entirely: a winding album of Bach. For This Pianist, Every Album Is an Essay 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

All told, the festival’s resident ensemble played half the set: five works in Vivaldi’s original scoring and one, the Concerto No. 8 in A minor, in Bach’s keyboard reconfiguration. Music Review: 6 Vivaldis, One of Them Arranged by Bach 2010-08-31T20:48:00Z

Bach was always an important element of Mr. Martins’s career as a pianist, and he often performed and recorded Bach’s music before his setbacks. Music Review: The Power of Bach, the Comfort of Morricone 2010-09-20T23:21:00Z

The encore returned to Bach with the Sarabande from the fourth partita, in D — a small punctuation mark on an afternoon full of them. Review | A pianist’s personal meditation: Richard Goode plays Bach, Chopin 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

One of the most enduring mysteries that Johann Sebastian Bach left for us comes in the form of his “Orgelbüchlein,” a collection of chorale preludes for organ. Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

The consoling shadow of Bach looms large in the first movement, reflected in a series of unaccompanied agitated arpeggios and searching scales, which Ms. Koh played with robust refinement. Jennifer Koh Accompanies the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

Both Bach and Boulez are mathematicians at work. A Flutist Steps Into the Solo Spotlight 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Franck devised pieces of classical music that fit in — pieces of Schubert, Bach, which correspond closely to the emotions in the story.” Peter Brook on his ‘Suit,’ tailored for its Seattle dates 2014-03-12T19:32:39Z

The six cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach are different things to different cellists. Joshua Roman to play a Bach cello marathon 2011-11-23T17:40:09Z

In 2011, Jarvis elaborated his ideas in a book entitled “Written by Mrs Bach”; he is now presenting them in the form of a documentary film, also titled “Written by Mrs Bach.” The Search for Mrs. Bach 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

Earlier seasons explored quartets by and Haydn, solo violin and solo keyboard works by Bach, and more. Music Review: At Columbia, Midday Barber in Strings and Song 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z

One of those additional tracks is Carpenter going to town on a movement from Bach Violin Partita No. 3. Joy, daring in Cameron Carpenter's 'If You Could Read My Mind' 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Bach's "St. Matthew" Passion, music's most revered work, is not, at its deepest level, sacred music. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

He began with Bach’s arrangement for keyboard of Alessandro Marcello’s Oboe Concerto in D minor; this was Bach’s pragmatic way of getting to know the latest currents in Italian music from the inside. Review: Young Concert Artists Is Back, With a Superb Pianist 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The Chopin and Bach on the soundtrack have been replaced by pop music, including, somewhat obviously, Janis Joplin’s “Cry Baby.” | 'Cries and Whispers': ?Cries and Whispers? at BAM - Review 2011-10-26T21:27:23Z

Its performance of Bach’s B minor Mass on Friday evening, with the period-instrument Concert Royal, relied perhaps too heavily on spirit. Music in Review 2011-02-20T23:48:45Z

Then it was back to Bach for the rest of my stay in Leipzig. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The cellist Abel Selaocoe, introducing an album of pieces by Bach and South African and Tanzanian folk songs, describes how hymnal music from England and the Netherlands mixed with African culture. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Here was a throwback to a time when ensembles of this size routinely sang the Bach masterpieces. Oratorio Society of New York Performs ‘St. Matthew Passion’ 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

The Bach with which he opened – a dreamy account of the French Suite No 5, its flow stalled only by one or two slightly fudged moments in the Bourrée – was a case in point. Murray Perahia ? review 2011-04-03T21:45:01Z

That work, which often refers to Bach, received a meandering, indistinct performance. Music Review: AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2011-10-23T21:57:46Z

Leipzig, Germany was the place to be on Good Friday after Johann Sebastian Bach moved there in 1723. SSO, Pacific MusicWorks each to put on a Bach Passion 2014-02-20T19:58:01Z

Writing in 1982, Bach was forecasting one of the stranger paradoxes of the modern blockbuster era: even the failures are blockbuster events. Zombie epic World War Z – another blockbuster turkey that refuses to die 2013-06-20T13:00:00Z

But then, even in this boom time for early music in New York, where could you hope to find the four virtuosos on Baroque trumpet that Bach requires in that blessed cantata? Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

But she has always competed with the best fiddlers of her time in her recordings of mainstream repertoire; her Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Bartok concertos are fully competitive with anyone else’s. CD reviews: Mullova shines in Prokofiev 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Sarah Stone, who plays cello and viola da gamba, has stuck to her “Bach Everyday” performances from her apartment in New York City. Entertainers promised to see us through the quarantine. Even they are running out of steam. 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Another reminder, of the reason in-person concerts are still a distant dream, is a section that follows a lyrical quotation of a Bach chorale, in which chattering winds produce aerosols captured on camera. The San Francisco Symphony Plunges Into a New World 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

On the program are Mendelssohn’s “Variations Sérieuses,” Bach’s Partita No. 4 and the first book of Debussy’s Préludes. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

He recorded himself playing Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, beautifully, on a Yamaha Disklavier, a full grand piano with a high-tech player piano function; his program then played back each variation, but flipped. A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

I could easily have picked his delightful disc of C. P. E. Bach’s Württemberg Sonatas as well. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Also, Bach and Purcell really complement each other. Ingrid Matthews says farewell to Seattle Baroque Orchestra 2012-10-04T20:04:07Z

In the end, joy prevails — this is Bach, after all. Paul Taylor’s vintage works and classic joys 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Hahn’s most powerful videos are not those in which she tosses off some Bach with all her familiar assurance, but those in which she does least with her instrument. Hilary Hahn Practices in Public, Wherever and However She Is 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

We would read Grimm's Fairy Tales and listen to classical music, so there was less of a Rolling Stones versus Beatles debate and more of a Bach versus Bartók one. ?l?f Arnalds: 'I don't want geysers in my videos' 2010-09-16T21:45:00Z

In one marathon concert, he played titanic works by Bach, Schubert, Beethoven and Prokofiev. Review: A Pianist’s Profound Vision of ‘Life,’ in Just 2 Hours 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

Bach will headline a concert program on the theme of mathematics and music. Math + music=a little dry, but pleasant 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

“Prism III” is the third installment in what this quartet describes as a beam of music through a prism, tracing connections across centuries by juxtaposing Bach fugues, late Beethoven and works of the 20th century. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

His latest album, Wanderer, is out now on Decca; he performs Bach's St Matthew Passion at King's College Chapel, Cambridge, on 25 and 26 March. Andreas Scholl, countertenor – portrait of the artist 2013-03-19T19:30:00Z

Music lovers will long remember the roaring excitement of George's Bach performances on the harpsichord with his longtime duo partner, flutist Jeff Cohan. Tribute: George Shangrow, a roaring presence on Seattle's classical-music scene 2010-08-07T00:21:00Z

Fourteen Bach organ works played in a row by student organists sitting with their backs to you is perhaps a little too much of a surpassingly beautiful and complex thing. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

The melancholy of Bach’s cantata hides a deeper contentment. Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

On the next evening came the “St. Matthew Passion,” performed in St. Thomas, where Bach led the work’s premiere in 1727. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The performance conveyed the state of uneasy peace and solemn resignation that arrives when Berg folds a harmonically daring, strangely consoling Bach chorale into the long, final episode of the piece. Bavarian Radio Symphony Performs Brahms and Ligeti 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Curators of the Bach archive used to have their conversations bugged. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z

The title’s spelling is a nod to Johann Sebastian Bach, who Mr. Eggleston called “my great hero in music.” William Eggleston, at 78, in a New Key 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

The Swingle Singers, who went on to win three more Grammys in the 1960s, can be heard scatting works by Bach, Mozart and others on many recordings, and on film and television soundtracks. Ward Swingle, Who Made Classical Music Jazzy, Dies at 87 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

The Twelfth Night Festival ended on Friday, with a presentation of the last of the six cantatas of Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” on its appointed day, the Feast of the Epiphany. Critic?s Notebook: Trinity Church, a Sanctuary for Music, Cuts Back 2012-01-10T23:20:05Z

The series of solos performed by five dancers, and set to aching Bach sonatas, is a strenuous study in loneliness. Dance Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Photograph: The Art Archive/Corbis The years 1650 to 1750 were a period of feverish invention and technical ingenuity in music that reached an apotheosis in Handel's sublime oratorios and Bach's cantatas and Passions. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

Bach was skeptical and turned to social media. Delayed Seattle Van Gogh exhibit’s unclear opening date, location frustrate ticket holders 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

The mixing of Bach and ballroom is very Tharp. Review: From Twyla Tharp, 2 New Pieces for Her Anniversary Tour 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Few choirs sing Bach with such loving attention to the text and such exquisitely floating textures. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z

When Carnegie Hall presented its first comprehensive celebration of early music — Before Bach, a series of concerts over 25 days last year — it left little room for improvement but plenty to expand the concept. Sounds of Venice’s Serene Republic Come to New York 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

But his Bach recital on Thursday was characterized by unabashedly personal interpretations that he delivered with persuasive intensity. Music Review: Piotr Anderszewski’s Bach Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-09T22:11:03Z

Using taped music by Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart and Bach, it sets big, showy movements and emphatic dynamics where the music is subtle and often gentle. Review: Eccentricity and Offbeat Humor by BalletX 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

In the Bach prelude and fugue Mr. d’Agostino drew mighty and attractive sounds from Tully Hall’s Kuhn organ and extended his unobtrusive but imaginative embellishments even to the fugue subject. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra Plays Bach at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-28T23:05:18Z

I like to say that we had Beethoven, Mozart and Bach on the same label.” ‘Born in Chicago’ Tells of Titans Who Taught Young Protegés 2013-07-25T21:36:16Z

To take her mind off the war, she played Bach and traditional Ukrainian songs. An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

His limpid touch and understated playing in the Bach/Siloti Prelude in B minor, his first encore, also proved entrancing. Alexandre Tharaud Plays Schubert, Couperin and Others at Zankel Hall 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

He expresses his conservative tastes — Bach, Haydn, Mozart — in surprisingly heartfelt terms. Henschel Quartet Offers Solace for Pope Benedict 2010-03-26T16:30:00Z

Few pieces in the piano repertoire are as revealing of a performer as Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

The program closer, “Method,” set to two movements of Bach Brandenburg concertos in a New Zealand Guitar Quartet arrangement, resembles Paul Taylor’s classic Bach romp, “Esplanade,” but on fast-forward. Review: Black Grace, From New Zealand With Incredible Speed 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

That was most unfortunate for Gene Hill Sagan’s “Suite en Bleu,” a balletic work set to Bach and Handel. Review: At SummerStage, Philadanco and TU Dance Produce Fancy Footwork Across Vastness 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

In its new version, Bach’s Variation No. 10, a short fugue, may be the strongest example of the “prism” effect Mr. Tepfer described. A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

Because the truth is, there’s a lot more organ music than Bach. Freeing the pipe organ from the usual grind 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

The historically informed performance movement revolutionized approaches to early music and whipped up an appetite for fleeter and more feathery readings, especially of Bach. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

The barge’s artistic director, the violinist Mark Peskanov, takes the stage on Saturday with the pianist Doris Stevenson and works by Bach, Schumann and others. Dance Listings for April 18-24 2014-04-17T23:01:08Z

The Bach is, of course, gorgeous, but at the close of a challenging, complex afternoon it felt a little pat, an overly consolatory ending to an exciting, refreshingly unsentimental concert. Music Review: East Coast Chamber Orchestra at Tishman Auditorium 2012-02-07T23:35:30Z

Nodding to the keyboard toccatas of Bach’s father, the piece is like a spiraling stream of notes, tossed between the hands. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

In that number, which appears on the Rolling Stones’ 1969 album “Let It Bleed,” he leads the Bach Choir in the celestial opening strains. Sir David Willcocks, Conductor Who Influenced British Choral Music, Dies at 95 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

And he went on to create enduring dances like “New Bach,” a homage to Balanchine with touches of African-American vernacular dances; and “Return,” to recordings by James Brown and Aretha Franklin. The Ballet World Needs Robert Garland. Why Isn’t It Calling? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

Until 10 September In the event, we got the transfixing Bach recital we hoped for, albeit – at 45 minutes – all too short. Prom 31: Nigel Kennedy ? review 2011-08-07T16:50:00Z

“Great music” means great qualitatively, as in Bach’s Mass in B minor, which Mr. Tritle performed with the Cathedral Choir and Orchestra on Wednesday evening. Music Review: Great Music in a Great Space at St. John the Divine 2012-10-13T00:50:06Z

In the past, she’s been one of a number of dissimilar choreographers who have made us feel that their Bach is our Bach. Review: Twyla Tharp’s Choreography Celebrated to Bach and Jazz 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

The Basiani, founded in 2000 and affiliated with the Georgian Patriarchate, offered a wide range of its country’s sacred and secular music as part of ’s Bach and Polyphonies series at the Mostly Mozart Festival. Music Review: Ensemble Basiani?s Georgian Fare at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-17T22:40:00Z

According to Bach, United Artists wrote off its loss at $44 million. Andy Albeck Is Dead at 89; Headed United Artists 2010-10-06T05:21:00Z

A lofty claim, though one befitting a reigning interpreter of this repertoire: Gardiner, 80, a scholarly flag-bearer of the historically informed performance movement for a half-century, has virtually set the standard in Bach’s sacred music. What Is John Eliot Gardiner’s Musical Empire Without Him? 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

Listen to any of the Bach fugues on the “Prism” releases, and you find that few, if any, of the thematic entries are underlined or even pointed out. The Danish String Quartet’s ‘Prism’ Is Essential Listening 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Haydn was 18 when Bach died, in 1750, and Classicism was stirring. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

“With the inventions, I’m not taking any material from Bach,” he said; instead, he tries to respond to the “concept” of the piece. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

Some of those ticket-holders were going to hear the Colorado Symphony Orchestra perform Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Bill Cosby’s ‘Far from Finished’ tour pushes on. But will it be his last? 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

As often as not, classical-music people make Bach their partner in superabundance, in part because his music actually seems to thrive when placed in unusual formats and contrived contexts. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

Roman performs all six Bach cello suites, 4 p.m. Joshua Roman to play a Bach cello marathon 2011-11-23T17:40:09Z

Bach proved to be more of a work in progress. In recital, Jan Lisiecki’s playing hints at an artist replete with potential 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

The program’s final piece, a greatest hit saved for last, was Bach’s Prelude, the suite’s first movement. Review: ‘Fragments’ Proposes a New Kind of Cello Recital 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Music by Bach and Haydn accompanied the more frantic sequences, with sustained drumming connecting some of the other sections. BodyTraffic brings a light touch — perhaps too light — to the Broad Stage 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

The Other Amazing Mr Bach, a study day, is at the Purcell Room on 5 March. CPE Bach: like father, like son 2011-02-24T22:35:01Z

That practice taps into a grand musical tradition: Baroque composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel often reused material from earlier works in new settings. Happy birthday, Pierre 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

An especially striking aspect of Mr. Zimmermann and Mr. Pace’s traversal was the way they illuminated the expansion of Bach’s ideas as the set progressed. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann, Alan Gilbert and Enrico Pace - Review 2011-10-13T22:20:12Z

An answer is found in Mr. Sellars’s haunting 2010 staging of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” in collaboration with the Berlin Philharmonic and its conductor, Simon Rattle. In DVD of ‘St. Matthew Passion,’ Hints of Sellars’s Future 2012-06-08T19:21:28Z

Mr. Jacobs and 19 other organists, all his past or current students from the Juilliard School, will play Bach’s complete organ works, about 150 pieces, on an instrument renowned as a Bach organ. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

She will perform a Bach suite in its entirety, and she will play it with her typical, heartfelt passion. A Cellist Breaks Music Into ‘Fragments,’ Then Connects Them 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Days before her performance, Song spoke of Mendelssohn and Bach as if they were uncles and credited Beethoven's "many musical varieties and different personalities. It's beautiful, melodic and kind of devastating sometimes." Students' arts dedication puts them in Spotlight at Disney Hall 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

One reason he was able to do so was that his personal library included all 47 volumes of Bach’s music, published over several years in the late 19th century. William H. Scheide, 100, Philanthropist, Is Dead 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

Calmus, a polished and versatile ensemble of one female and four male voices from Germany, delivered intricate arrangements of Bach from the Lutheran tradition before veering into a disarmingly stylish “Everybody Knows” by Leonard Cohen. A smorgasbord of singers delivers a timely serenade 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

The Sarabande was the high point of this unusual Bach, with the rising melodic turn that marks the piece not exaggerated but just allowed to pose its question gracefully. Pianist Stephen Kovacevich’s deft hands still have a solid grasp 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

With its double chorus, double chamber orchestra, cast of soloists, and intricate scoring, this is Bach at his most epic, as he sets to music the story of Christ’s Crucifixion. All the stars align for a stirring St. Matthew Passion at SSO 2014-02-22T20:45:27Z

The ballet, set to Bach’s “Art of the Fugue,” was to have its premiere on March 30 but has been postponed indefinitely. Alexei Ratmansky, With Family in Kyiv, Leaves His Ballet in Moscow 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z

Bach and Mendelssohn show up in “Partita,” just as “Flûte en Suite” digs up a series of Baroque dances. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

When listening to Johann Sebastian Bach’s astonishing creativity, which appears to be routed in many disciplines, we hear and feel what it is to be human. Review | In ‘Counterpoint,’ a memoirist reflects on love, loss and Bach 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

When he briefly ran a gay nightclub near the Oakland Bay Bridge, he stocked its jukebox with Bach fugues. Unearthing Rick Barton, a Boho Bard of North Beach 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

But he said they botched some Bach, and the result was the opening of "Blackbird," which he played alone on acoustic guitar. Paul McCartney thrills L.A. crowd with hits, tales 2010-04-01T00:20:00Z

Bach, Handel and Scarlatti were all born in 1685 and all became famous writing complex, almost mathematical, music with lots of ostentatious ornamentation. From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

One Ubuntu chorister proudly displayed his tattoo of Johann Sebastian Bach. Beethoven’s 200-Year-Old ‘Fidelio’ Enters Today’s Prisons 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

I had settled down on the sidewalk when the group started on the opening movement of C. P. E. Bach’s Magnificat, an irresistibly jubilant piece. Review: Make Music New York Teaches Buildings How to Sing 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Esfahani's rhythmically revealing solo playing of Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, which follows, seems intent on exuberantly exposing Bach as an ultra-hip distant ancestor of Reich. Hip harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani goes for Baroque but is unfortunately hard to hear 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

Its rhythms mirror those of the Bach, but its variations are adventurously modern. Music Review: Gidon Kremer at White Light Festival at Tully Hall - Review 2011-10-24T21:15:05Z

Her novel’s catalogue stretches from Bach to the Beach Boys, from Vivaldi to the Sex Pistols. Review | An irresistible romantic comedy to begin your new year 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

I would vote for Bach, too — especially at this time of hard truths. Bach in My Heart, and My Heart in His Hands 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

On choosing a piano to play Bach: “When Bach said ‘well-tempered,’ it did not mean equal like today. Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard talks about taking time off for Bach

Some quail whenever the society, which presents more than 100 concerts per year in New York and beyond, veers even slightly from traditional crowd pleasers, including works by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Chamber Music Society’s Leaders on Balancing Old and New 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Bach proposed that the purpose of music is “the glory of God and the refreshment of the spirit.” Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

Perhaps to the chagrin of those who prefer non-westerners to embrace the ethnically predictable, I am a harpsichordist who loves the music of Bach and I am an Iranian. Mahan Esfahani: Why I'm proud to take part in the Proms 2012-07-20T14:06:00Z

Yo-Yo Ma will perform a solo recital — unusual for the Bowl — of Bach’s six cello suites. Hollywood Bowl's 2017 lineup: 'Harry Potter,' Misty Copeland, 'Mamma Mia!' and more 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

His encore, taken from Bach’s Partita No. 1, was spellbinding. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

He’s an expressive musician, who defaults to a wide, emotive vibrato — especially in his encore, a harmonious arrangement of Bach’s “Komm, süsser Tod” for five cellists. Review: A Conductor Takes a Victory Lap With Her Orchestra 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

Unlike his contemporaries, Bach wrote infrequently in variation form, with two decades separating the Chaconne of the Partita in D minor for solo violin and the “Goldberg” Variations. Music Review: The Honens Winner Minsoo Sohn Performs at Zankel Hall 2012-10-09T22:01:37Z

The hosts’ chocolate Lab seemed to listen too, barking after a Bach fugue, and we all laughed. In unusual New York City venues — such as restaurants — the taste for classical music expands 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Carter Brey, the orchestra’s principal cellist, told me the other day that he played some Bach suites on the front of the new stage and the acoustics in the empty hall seemed “clear and true.” A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

This rendition of the “Goldbergs” — Bach’s set of 30 variations on that Aria — was not the kind to exaggerate or even emphasize the, well, variation. Review: Dimming the Lights for Sensuously Flowing Bach 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Marsalis transcribed them for saxophone, the Bach being a kind of double reworking, since Marsalis used a reconstruction of the original oboe version as his starting point. Marsalis, Philadelphia orchestra go by the book at the Wallis 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

These days when playing Bach Mr. Schiff does not use the piano’s sustaining pedal, which lifts the dampers off all the strings so that sounds linger and mingle. Music Review: András Schiff Plays ‘Well-Tempered Clavier,’ at 92nd Street Y 2012-10-28T21:36:40Z

There's Bach for marimbas, for ukulele and harmonium. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

Coincidentally, her aesthetician and the spa’s director, Rebecca Johnston, along with her staff of 30, got trained by Ms. Bach of Wellness for Cancer the following month. At These Hotels and Spas, Cancer Is No Obstacle to Quality Care 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

Bach, who dropped out of school at age 16, now teaches critical thinking and computer-software testing. Local books: writers and trauma, angels 2011-10-25T04:35:03Z

While using Joshua Rifkin's recent edition of the work, they couldn't have been further from the Bach scholar's ethos of one singer per part. BBCNOW/Fischer 2010-04-19T22:30:00Z

This program of all six Bach sonatas for violin and harpsichord was the most recent of several appearances in the past couple of years around Washington. Violinist Pamela Frank presents a rich program of all six Bach sonatas 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Bach's speech was preceded by one from Rio Organizing Committee President Carlos Nuzman, who said "a new world is born today." The Latest: De Lima lights the Olympic cauldron 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

The religious passages, Madonna paintings and Bach that Malick fed her, she considers “a spiritual and faith-based course on love that I really had never had in my life.” Jessica Chastain redeems a televangelist in ‘Tammy Faye’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

The encores were a movement from a CPE Bach concerto and, with an orchestra bass player and harpsichord, "Autumn Leaves." Marsalis, Philadelphia orchestra go by the book at the Wallis 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

"This agreement ensures comprehensive coverage of the Olympic Games across Europe, including the guarantee to provide extensive free-to-air television coverage in all territories," International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said in a statement. Discovery lands European TV Olympic rights 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Bach wrote some of his most stirringly expressive music in the form of dances, like the keyboard suites and his Partitas for solo violin, which are full of Sarabandes, Gigues, Passepieds, Gavottes and Bourrées. Critic’s Notebook: Catherine Turocy’s Lessons Unlock Early Music’s Meaning 2013-09-03T21:51:27Z

Surprisingly, Brown then began choreographing to existing music: first to Bach, in M.O. Step-by-step guide to dance: Trisha Brown 2010-10-13T13:07:00Z

“How,” he asked, “did the Bach half relate to the Gordon half?” Review: Bach, Revisited Series Features Ensemble Signal 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

With Bach or Brahms, we try to reproduce the music the way the composers wrote it and people don’t call it rigid,” she said. Ewan MacColl, Dogmatist of British Folk, Gets a Tribute Album 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

In addition to offering the premiere of a piece by David Herzberg, Mr. Lin plays works by Schumann, Debussy, Bach and Liszt. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Feb. 7-13 2014-02-06T23:48:39Z

This is a programming specialty of the Knights, a New York chamber orchestra that presented an homage to Bach at Dumbarton Oaks on Monday evening. Review | The Knights weave old and new in concert of surprises at Dumbarton Oaks 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

In “The People United,” as in the Bach works, there was the sense of structural rigor adding rather than draining energy. Music Review: Christopher Taylor Piano Concert at Miller Theater 2013-05-13T22:09:47Z

The works of Bach were long considered outdated, until a 19th-century resurgence established him as perhaps the essential composer. How a Forgotten Opera Made a Big Comeback 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

When Parker Woods made his debut in October at the prestigious Phillips Collection Sunday concert series in Washington, D.C., he opened the program with the first of Bach’s revered Cello Suites. From Lady Gaga to an ice cello, Seth Parker Woods redefines what it means to play cello 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Bach is so radiant with religious feeling that to title a concert “Bach and the Divine” seems almost redundant. PostClassical brings warmth and sensuality to an all-Bach concert at Dumbarton Church

“Golden Sings That Have Been Sung” was produced by Mr. Bach, who also plays piano, organ and clarinet on the album. Review: Ryley Walker Is Unsettled in a Chicago Way on ‘Golden Sings’ 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Then came Bach, a long, multifaceted story in himself. 500 Years Later, the Reformation Is Still Creating Music 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

The exception was the trio sonata, for which Bach stipulated flute, violin and continuo, the first instrument a homage to Frederick, a flautist. Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Koopman 2010-04-26T22:00:00Z

The works consisted mostly of lively dance suites, of a type that Bach would raise to the highest level of artistry, and character pieces. Music Review: Jordi Savall and Juilliard415 at Metropolitan Museum 2013-01-27T23:12:18Z

“You really should be able to hear a pin drop in the audience, for the magic of Bach to happen,” Bell says. Joshua Bell is playing in the Metro again. This time, maybe you won’t pass it up.

She joined the artists who found solace on social media, streaming a movement of Bach’s cello suites each day, for 36 days in a row. A Cellist Breaks Music Into ‘Fragments,’ Then Connects Them 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Outside music, the cultural references of JS Bach were more or less exclusively theological. CPE Bach: like father, like son 2011-02-24T22:35:01Z

A piano player works on a mezzanine, showering the dining room with arpeggios from Bach and other “great composers.” In This Norwegian Novel, an Old-School Waiter Tries to Keep Up the Old Ways 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Rather, they were deeply ingrained ways of thinking for Bach, probably operating at the precognitive level. Review | British harpsichordist plays Bach with precision, clarity and finesse at Phillips Collection 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

He also had a Bach monument, which still stands near St. Thomas, erected in 1843. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Andre Bach, 30, was one of the rare specimens in a dress shirt and khakis. The Rise of Early-Morning Dance Parties 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

New Yorkers are about to hear a lot of Bach on the piano. KIMIKO ISHIZAKA 2012-09-25T21:53:52Z

Given their fugal element, it made programmatic sense to play Beethoven’s Opus 35 after the Bach. Music Review: Jeremy Denk?s Recital at the 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-06T23:30:10Z

Still, an artistically successful debut not produced by Carnegie is no less remarkable or noteworthy an achievement — a point made by the Ottawa Bach Choir at Weill Recital Hall on Monday night. Music Review: Visitors Lift Up Their Voices to Bach and More 2011-05-24T21:09:19Z

The conclusion may be sombre, but as the stage floods slowly with morning light to the sound of a Bach aria, there's a hint, however troubled, of redemption. The Suit – review 2012-05-26T23:05:44Z

It comes at the start of the tenor aria that closes the first act of this grand biblical oratorio from 2012, modeled on the Bach Passions. Review: John Adams’s ‘Gospel’ Displays an Orchestral Wizard’s Tuneful Ear 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

“If you wanted to hear any kind of encyclopedic collection of Bach, you had to go to Richter. He made us all realize that all of Bach was amazing.” Playing Bach, Was He a Pioneer or a Reactionary? 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

He performed three pieces: two from Bach and one from Mendelssohn. Joshua Bell’s Metro encore draws a crowd

There is something so beautiful to me that Bach just needed to write this.” Into the Music: Jennifer Koh to Play Bach?s Partitas and Sonatas 2011-10-23T03:39:15Z

Bach, Schoenberg, Wagner and Beethoven are outstanding examples of such revolutionaries. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a revolutionary performer 2012-05-21T18:08:47Z

The piece was conceived as a homage to the D minor Partita by Bach, which Berio lauded as "the high point in which past, present and future violin technologies coexist". Alina Ibragimova/Quay Brothers ? review 2011-07-06T18:15:01Z

Bach, as the culmination of the German Baroque, effectively eclipsed his ancestors, whether actual family members or simply musical forebears. Music Review: An Exploration of the World That Made Bach and That Bach Remade 2011-05-17T21:41:23Z

Handel, he explained, was a more awkward writer for the keyboard than Bach. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Of Bach’s two surviving Passions, “St. John” is the more fiery, dramatic and troubling. Review: A ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Balances Grandeur and Calm 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

“New Work for Goldberg Variations,” a piece for six women and one man, employs a slyly deconstructed classical movement vocabulary to translate Bach’s intricate score into movement. Dance Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Serkin’s interest in this Bach began early in his career, when he read Emanuel’s influential treatise “On the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments.” A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Composed around 1720, just before Bach moved to Leipzig, the cello suites, now musical and emotional touchstones, were little known until the early 1900s. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

The effect was nocturnal, even séance-like, adding extra dreaminess to his brief improvisation at the start that flowed into the familiar opening of Bach’s gentle Aria. Review: Dimming the Lights for Sensuously Flowing Bach 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

This is a Bach changing with the times, ever fresh and never allowing any place to hide. A passionate Sellars-Rattle triumph with Bach's 'St. Matthew' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

The Bach continues to permeate the work, which evolves in passages that swell and subside, the orchestra heaving with modernist sonorities and fitful inner voices. Jurowski Leads London Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Technological change is in fact the subject of your favorite page, the middle page of a rondo that Bach wrote in 1781 as a farewell to his long-serving clavichord. Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One) 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Where Bach demands active participation of the individual listener, Rachmaninoff encourages meditative contemplation. The Berlin Radio Choir Sings Rachmaninoff’s Vespers 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

In public transit stations from London to New York you often hear the sound of gentle classical music — some Mozart perhaps, maybe some Bach. Will Jarring Music Drive Drug Users From a German Train Station? 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

“One more,” a patient burst out after Ms. Kleijn had played a movement of solo Bach. Chicago Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Beyond 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Audience connected from end of first fanfare with intelligent applause for each of the Bach sections. Twyla Tharp’s Premiere Week: The Stage Ship Sails 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Elie, a senior fellow with Georgetown University, is the author of "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" and "Reinventing Bach." Karen Armstrong's thinking shifts on religion and violence

In past years, he has played everything from Messiaen’s “Catalogue d’Oiseaux” to the complete solo works of Pierre Boulez and the entirety of Bach’s “The Art of Fugue.” 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Still, as with a P. D. Q. Bach CD, it’s half the fun. Tanglewood’s Archival Magic Still Casts a Spell 2012-06-28T15:03:28Z

“Jazz Sebastian Bach” and “Bach’s Greatest Hits,” the group’s first records, found widespread commercial and critical interest upon their release in 1963. Ward Swingle, musician who made Bach swing, dies at 87 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

“It was like Bach with attitude,” he said. Hear the Martha Argerich Recordings That Inspired 8 Young Pianists 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Virgil Fox, a church organist, became a quirky evangelist for Bach in the 1970s with his "Heavy Organ" performances that opened concerts for Cream and the like at places such as the Fillmore. Joy, daring in Cameron Carpenter's 'If You Could Read My Mind' 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Bach, it would seem, could, on occasion, do smut just as well as his more worldly contemporaries. Erdmann/Goerne/Hahn | Classical review 2010-03-25T22:00:00Z

“It gave me this passion for Bach, and I got very caught up in it for the rest of my life.” Blanche Moyse, Music School Founder, Dies at 101 2011-02-15T07:30:06Z

He listened intently as a pastor described the efforts to protect the great composer’s remains during World War II; he marveled at the dedication to preserving Bach’s legacy. John Williams, Hollywood’s Maestro, Looks Beyond the Movies 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Smith was inspired by the composers whose works she was learning: Mozart, Bach, Haydn. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Perhaps for Bach, the opera genre was too presentational, almost like a spectator sport. Berlin Philharmonic Performs 'St. Matthew Passion' at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Three men dance the "Troika," accompanied by a lone cellist, Alexander Knyazev, on stage playing selections from Bach. ABT returns to Moscow stage after 45 years 2011-03-29T19:01:16Z

There's a formidable canon of solo pieces for cello too, of which Bach's six cello suites are generally regarded as the daddy. Hey, what's that sound: Cello 2010-10-20T14:43:00Z

And for all the current caricatures of classical music as an elitist pursuit, no one would mistake the crowd at the free Bach at One concerts for 1 percenters. Critic?s Notebook: Trinity Church, a Sanctuary for Music, Cuts Back 2012-01-10T23:20:05Z

Another pianist, Milad, 18, also in English, declared himself partial to Bach. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z

I am not foolish enough to presume that no epic-length concerts took place here before 1978, when Symphony Space was born with the initial Wall to Wall Bach festival. Music Review: Fernando Otero in Music of Now Marathon at Symphony Space 2012-02-07T23:33:12Z

Harrison Birtwistle's dramatic cantata Angel-Fighter, first performed at the Leipzig Bach festival last year, is his third recent work to be based on biblical subject matter. BBC Singers/London Sinfonietta/Atherton ? review 2011-08-22T14:57:59Z

“Because the St. Matthew text is longer and more expansive, Bach placed that Passion on a big, fantastic canvas,” says Stubbs. SSO, Pacific MusicWorks each to put on a Bach Passion 2014-02-20T19:58:01Z

There are theoretical reasons, including evidence it was the pitch Bach would have known. Wispelwey: Loneliness of the long-distance cellist 2013-01-31T11:21:34Z

Bach is revered here, and past seasons have included Vivaldi concerts and works by Handel, Telemann, Corelli and others from the Baroque Top 10. Music Review: Exploring the Intricacies of the 17th Century 2011-07-31T21:56:33Z

Then the soloists play fleeting bits of the jumpy theme from the last movement of the Bach, which segue into spiraling riffs, establishing the quizzical mood of the music. Review: With Bach as a Catalyst, Thierry Escaich’s Lavish Concerto 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Employing bursts of Bach and English-language narration, this lulling, informative documentary never fully grapples with its topic’s complexity. A Masterpiece Mired in Its Creator’s Vision 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Born into a family of classical musicians, Ms. Jansen sang in church from a young age, played Bach sonatas accompanied by her father at the harpsichord and witnessed rehearsals of early-music groups in her home. A Violinist as Riveting in Silence as in Sound 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Bach’s original is the first contemplative variation in the series, at once sad and innocent. A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

Last month my colleague James R. Oestreich heard him at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland in the same program of Bach, Beethoven and Schubert he offered here. At Salzburg Festival, Musicians Tap Their Inner Mozarts and Schuberts 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Yet at the same time, it sounds eerily familiar, starting with the upside-down Aria — the theme developed over Bach’s 30 variations. A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

When he showed up, it was rehearsing Bach’s “St. John Passion.” A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’ 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Tony answers: The sheer vitality and ingenious inventiveness of Bach’s music in the “Goldberg” Variations — moment to moment, section to section — surely accounts for the enduring popularity of this monumental work. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

But, as often happens in musical history, the generation after Bach stripped away much of the older composers' harmonic complexity, writing instead with a dramatically simpler palette of harmonies. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

He recalled Harnoncourt saying, “You play Bach with no imagination,” urging him to play with fewer reservations and more lyrical melodic lines. Lang Lang, Piano Thunderer, Greets Bach’s Austere ‘Goldbergs’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Even among his contemporaries", says Richards, "you get a sense that CPE Bach is an acquired taste. CPE Bach: like father, like son 2011-02-24T22:35:01Z

Bernard Bach, a Tennessee-born New Yorker of Vietnamese descent, was walking alone through Times Square near midnight recently when a stranger yelled at him. Asian American masculinity is being increasingly celebrated. But many men still face stereotyping. 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

The harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani will give two recitals, pairing selections from Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” with contemporary works, including a commission by George Lewis. A New ‘Horror Opera’ Opens Miller Theater’s Next Season 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

In it, he elaborated on theories propounded by Joshua Rifkin two decades before to the effect that what Bach called a chorus would have amounted simply to the sum of the vocal soloists, joining forces. Music Review | Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra: At Trinity, Andrew Parrott Leads a Full-Bodied ?Passion? 2010-03-16T21:46:00Z

Most important, Egarr’s interpretative choices follow the sunny arc of Bach’s set, in which three suites in minor keys are succeeded by three in major keys. CD reviews: A cellist’s solo “Trance.” 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

But he’s as drawn to bawdy cabaret songs as he is to Bach. Review | Mark Morris bares his soul in a refreshingly raw and inspiring memoir 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

The volume also contains a 40-page scholarly essay by Mr. Hopkins examining Gould’s interpretive practices with regard to the “Goldbergs” and Bach in general. Glenn Gould’s Every Detail. But Why? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

This is not necessarily desirable – inherent in the term "institution" is the suggestion of a fixed ethos and resistance to change – but their vision of Bach's masterpiece has proved remarkably open to reinvention. St Matthew Passion | Classical review 2010-03-23T22:20:00Z

Of Bach’s two surviving Passions, the “St. Matthew” is the more widely revered and usually the more often performed. Music Review: Bach?s ?St. John,? With Bernard Labadie at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-26T22:35:40Z

Bach just decides to end it on a tonic first inversion, which was a total shock to me. Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One) 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Let us credit all the Bachs: Anna Magdalena rocks! Style Invitational Week 1099: Yours for the asking — it’s Questionable Journalism

The concert also counted members of Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity among the excellent performers. Review: A Broadened Christmas Repertoire at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

In his chosen repertory, especially Bach, Gould played with uncanny clarity and brought seemingly impossible independence to individual voices. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

Penworth plays Bach on the violin to calm his nerves, but also sometimes reads an elegant edition of Plato’s dangerously exciting “Phaedrus.” ‘The Young Desire It,’ by Kenneth Mackenzie

Bach’s suites are notoriously demanding in and of themselves, and Mr. Dwyer said he had never played more than two of them in a single day. ‘A Suite Ride Through NYC,’ Featuring Paul Dwyer 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

The Music of the Baroque chorus and orchestra will perform Bach's Mass in B minor as one of two programs of J.S. Bates, Clyne bringing fresh vibe to CSO's new music series 2011-03-16T16:56:31Z

She made her Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1960, in a program of Vaughan Williams, Hindemith, Bach and Brahms. Karen Tuttle, Violist and Teacher, Dies at 90 2010-12-25T04:40:31Z

You are almost enticed into thinking that you’re watching a 17th-century documentary, and also that Bach’s music belongs not to the past but to the future. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Daniel Jamieson gives Dickens's great novel a contemporary spin in a production that uses music from Bach to Bowie as a soundtrack to Nell's life, as she and Grandpa travel across England. This week's new theatre 2013-03-09T06:00:16Z

As the informal group began to draw a following, Dr. Lewis formally launched the Washington Bach Consort in 1977. J. Reilly Lewis, organist, choral director and Bach authority, dies at 71 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Set to Bach, it featured majestic location images — of Colorado and New Mexico — as its backdrop, settings that were austere, lonely and even a little wild. Review: A ‘Punk Ballerina’ Turns to Film and Fashion 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Indeed, it was the aggressive avoidance of Bach that made Elliott Carter’s 1952 Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord of particular interest. Bach forever! Camerata Pacifica enters the fray 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

On Thursday in New York, the media event opened with an assistant U.S. attorney, Jason Masimore, playing Bach. After 35 years, a stolen Stradivarius finds its way home 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Each was somewhat more forward looking than Bach in his instrumental works. 4x4 Baroque Music Festival Presents ‘The Grand Overture’ 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

Brandenburg cycles are popular for good reasons: Each concerto is different from the others in instrumentation and the inspiration level is astonishingly high, even for Bach. L.A. Chamber Orchestra carries on a different holiday tradition: Bach's Brandenburg Concertos 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

“A successful performance of a Bach cantata or passion demands individuality of expression from every person,” he said. Early-Music Ensembles: Praised as Pure, but Seeking More 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Playing Puts or Bach or Piazzolla, the Orchestra is an extraordinary asset for the Taylor troupe. At Paul Taylor, a Drum Circle and a Fierce Sisterhood 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z

There were echoes of Bach chorales in the mellow brass and the calm strands of counterpoint in the strings. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Here, Mr. Solow reprises a complete survey of the Bach Cello Suites, offering the first three, with commentary. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Threaded through the book is a slowly evolving portrait of Bach as a visionary artist, filled with the desire to harness the latest technology and forms of expression to his artistic and liturgical aims. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z

“Junction,” made to Bach in 1961 and the immediate predecessor to “Tracer,” has been revived in recent years; like “3 Epitaphs,” it points to several directions that Mr. Taylor was to take. Review: Paul Taylor’s ‘Tracer’ Recalls a Dance and an Artist 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

There was murkiness in the winds in the Overture of the Bach suite, and mushiness as the fragmented solos were passed around near the start of the Bruckner symphony. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

A short solo Bach encore, however, was genuinely sensitive. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

“Pat, you do understand, they pay you,” Mr. Bach said. Pat Conroy, Author of ‘The Prince of Tides’ and ‘The Great Santini,’ Dies at 70 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

Paul McCartney can’t read notation, but he has a vast store of music to draw on and could, for example, compose “Blackbird” based on a Bach lute piece he learned as a child. Gary Marcus, Professor at N.Y.U., Picks Up a Guitar 2012-01-26T00:47:36Z

So to get things going, let’s start with an easy one: Bach. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z

Accepting the idea that the “Brandenburg” Concertos harbor social and religious designs needn’t involve downplaying the magnificence of Bach’s artistic gifts. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

On Friday the Russian-born composer Sofia Gubaidulina, the subject of the final installment of this series, revealed her affinity for Bach more readily. Review: Bach, Revisited Series Features Ensemble Signal 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

We’ve had no better minder of the last gasp than Bach. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

For him, the Germanic music from Bach to Strauss was pure, uplifting, redemptive. Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Soprano Kate Vetter Cain was the soloist in Bach’s “Wedding Cantata,” which speaks of banishing winter cold for the pleasures of spring and blossoming love. Review | Washington Bach Consort gives a cheerful performance fit for spring 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Muti is in Chicago this month and will be part of three weeks of performances that include works from Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi. Riccardo Muti begins 3 weeks with Chicago Symphony 2013-04-10T21:51:08Z

There’s a quiet fearlessness to this album, which includes off-the-beaten-path selections and offers an array of ways to consider Bach, including through transcriptions by the likes of Busoni and Rachmaninoff. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

“I always play some Bach, because we’re cellists, and we do that,” she said. Here’s the good some are doing to combat the fear and isolation of the coronavirus 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

After acclaimed accounts of Beethoven’s last sonatas and Bach’s partitas, Mr. Levit shows no sign of slowing down. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The scholar of religion Albert Blackwell has remarked of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” that its “chorales are not dramatic music, but they impart musical drama.” A Soldier Kills a Deaf Boy, and Rebels Respond With a Barricade of Silence 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

The discs also feature her performances of Bach’s Mass in B minor, selections by Handel and Purcell and the complete “Orfeo.” Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z

I grew up and memorized all this Bach; it’s in my head and it’s in my hand. Cosmic Stories: Du Yun Revisits Her Earliest Music Theater 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Grosvenor has such uncanny facility that his playing sometimes seems a little curt and tossed off, especially in the Bach, in which he skips most of the repeats. Classical Playlist: Bach, Haydn, Seattle Symphony and More 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

It is no exaggeration to call Bach’s St. Matthew Passion one of the landmarks of Western culture. All the stars align for a stirring St. Matthew Passion at SSO 2014-02-22T20:45:27Z

Casals changed this widespread perception mainly through his interpretation of the Bach Cello Suites, and thus achieved a significant reorientation in our listening experience. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a revolutionary performer 2012-05-21T18:08:47Z

The concert is also to feature a new commission by Michel van der Aa and settings by Tallis, Bach, Purcell and Monteverdi. 150 Psalms, 150 Composers at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

That Palestrina work was chosen because Bach made an arrangement of it, doubling voices with cornettos and trombones and adding keyboard. Music Review: Dessoff Choirs at Church of St. Paul the Apostle 2012-02-07T23:41:03Z

Bach succeeded, of course, surpassing many of his own sublime keyboard pieces with the “Goldberg” Variations. Music Review: The Honens Winner Minsoo Sohn Performs at Zankel Hall 2012-10-09T22:01:37Z

The final concert comprised one of Bach's largest and most comprehensive creations: the Mass in B minor. 5 stars for 9-hour Bach Marathon 2013-04-02T10:24:08Z

It has established several performance series, toured internationally and worked its way steadily through all 215 of Bach’s cantatas, a traversal it completed in 2006 — whereupon it went back and started over again. Perspective | Early music, fresh start: A new leader for Washington Bach Consort 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

You’re far from the only the artist turning to Bach at the moment. Does the Pressure of a Pandemic Transform a Cellist’s Bach? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Bach blended the solo line and the accompaniment into one part, writing multiple, independent voices that unfold simultaneously. Into the Music: Jennifer Koh to Play Bach?s Partitas and Sonatas 2011-10-23T03:39:15Z

When I first received the set, I wondered whether even the most devoted Bach and Gould lovers would actually listen to all 282 tracks. 5 Hours of Glenn Gould Outtakes. Why? Listen and Find Out. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Rarely does a conductor with an eye on a mainstream career tackle music written before Bach’s time, works typically reserved for specialists and scholars. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z

As he was looking for another collection of great work, I recommended the Bach cantatas. Letters: Denis Forman always looked for new horizons 2013-02-26T15:05:04Z

Bach's B Minor Mass. It incorporates all styles of composition, and it's intellectual and emotional. Andreas Scholl, countertenor – portrait of the artist 2013-03-19T19:30:00Z

German music before Bach and Handel, thoroughly eclipsed by those masters, remains a relatively obscure area. Music Review: Jordi Savall and Juilliard415 at Metropolitan Museum 2013-01-27T23:12:18Z

Some musicians and scholars now believe that modern instruments allow for greater interpretive possibilities than original instruments — that the wonders of Bach’s music, for example, can be best illustrated on a modern piano. Christopher Hogwood, Early-Music Devotee, Dies at 73 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Bach was writing at a time of great technological change, as harpsichords and clavichords were giving way to fortepianos, a shift that allowed composers to develop new means of expression. Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One) 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Bach, whose solo keyboard “Italian Concerto” and Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord are on the program. A controversial harpsichordist? The adventurous Mahan Esfahani makes his Seattle Symphony debut 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Bach Day at the Proms is on 14 August. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

“Maybe my time is better organized than many other people’s. But compared to classical composers like Bach, Frescobaldi, Palestrina or Mozart, I would define myself as unemployed.” Ennio Morricone, Oscar-Winning Composer of Film Scores, Dies at 91 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

Halls played Handel’s “Largo” and Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” for an 80-year-old neighbor who had sent an email asking for his favorites to be played precisely at 10:45 a.m. Organists offer soundtrack to jabs at medieval UK cathedral 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

In “The Children’s Bach,” there are no false resolutions. Unheard Melodies: On Helen Garner’s “The Children’s Bach” 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Children can investigate both its poetic and culinary associations on this occasion, part of the Chelsea Music Festival, whose theme this year is “Bach 333: Master of Adoration, Variation and Transformation.” 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

In his accounts of Bach’s six partitas, these inventive suites come through as ingenious and formidable, while abounding in vitality and character. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

He begins with Bach’s French Suite No. 6, detours to Schubert’s second set of Impromptus, returns to a Mozart rondo and finishes with Beethoven’s last sonata. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

“Hilary Hahn Plays Bach: Sonatas 1 & 2, Partita 1” is out Oct. 5 Classical Music Faces to Watch This Season 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Not even the assassin, who calls herself Bach and calls her beloved semiautomatic Anna Magdalena, is anything special. Bill Clinton and James Patterson Team Up to Imagine a True Fantasy: Sane Politics 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

Isaac Stern soaring through a solo Bach Sarabande in Jerusalem to an audience wearing gas masks in preparation for Scud missile attacks in 1991. 'Reinventing Bach': multiple variations on a virtuoso composer 2012-09-27T20:18:04Z

His Bach, for instance, was poised, well mannered, and a model of clarity. Review | Nathan Lee makes ambitious Washington debut 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

Bridging the two keyboard concertos with Stravinsky's orchestral Concerto in D was an inspired choice, revealing the influences of Bach and Mozart on the later composer's brand of neoclassicism. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt ? review 2011-04-05T17:45:01Z

A Youth at Home at the Keys Benjamin Grosvenor made his New York recital debut, a program featuring Bach, Chopin and Scriabin, on Sunday at the Frick Collection. Music Review: Benjamin Grosvenor at the Frick Collection 2012-03-21T21:34:50Z

“Preludes and Fugues,” accompanied by Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier,” is orderly, with lots of open space and a sense of optimism. Twyla Tharp: The possibilities are endless 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Some of the calming CDs that are sold for people certainly wouldn’t calm you if you don’t like Bach. Suicidal dogs and bipolar wolves 2012-09-26T22:56:00Z

Commonly played pieces by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann were given pride of place. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The Bach, on which the whole program was built, and which must certainly still be in his fingers, felt more like a recitation than a performance. French pianist Aimard delivers strange recital at Library of Congress

For an hour musicians tag-teamed from stop to stop in the first car of the train in a continuously repeating performance of the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1. For the Solstice, a Bach Appearance on the G Train 2012-12-23T22:44:46Z

Never more so than in the current minifestival Bach and Polyphonies, which — conceived by the pianist and conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard — juxtaposes examples of Renaissance and Baroque polyphony with works of modern vintage. Music Review: Bach and Polyphonies Minifestival at Lincoln Center 2010-08-15T21:47:00Z

The album presents Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations in sequence, played with classical fidelity; but after each variation comes an improvised response. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z

Generally, Shaham's Bach interpretations inclined to spontaneity over a more profound plumbing of the music's limitless depths. This sound did not need a film dimension 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

And the Bach didn’t hold out much promise. Review: The Philharmonic’s ‘Passion’ Is a Surprising Achievement 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

To close the year, Noseda will lead the orchestra in pieces from Handel’s “Messiah” as well as Bach’s “Magnificat.” Perspective | Best classical music of 2021: Noseda reunites with the NSO, ‘Fire’ lights up the Met 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

His fastidious, historically sensitive renditions of Bach’s unaccompanied suites were widely acclaimed. Heinrich Schiff, Cellist and Conductor, Dies at 65 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Its new approach was evident in its two Mostly Mozart Festival concerts at Alice Tully Hall: a Beethoven program on Thursday evening, already reviewed, and works by Mozart, Bach and Mendelssohn on Sunday afternoon. Music Review: Mostly Mozart and Chamber Orchestra of Europe 2012-08-07T21:46:15Z

Melissa Bach, a senior director of public relations for the Knot Worldwide, which also includes the WeddingWire, said the company recently made some updates to its website, app, social media and emails. The Sexist Undertones of Wedding Marketing 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Sperling used a full complement of 125 singers, as Shaw would probably not have done in Bach, and he set this hefty choir against the period instruments of New York Baroque Incorporated. Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ Has More Humanity Than Anti-Semitism 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

And Carpenter himself turns up on yet another recent Sony crossover recording, "Red Hot + Bach," remixes of Bach from an interesting, if uneven, group of classical and pop musicians. Joy, daring in Cameron Carpenter's 'If You Could Read My Mind' 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

And then there is music, Bach and Mozart, that you start playing when you are very young, and they stay with you until the day you die. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Klavierbüchlein für Anna Magdalena Bach was given by Bach to his second wife Anna Magdalena, herself a professional singer. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z

His wasn't the most probing Bach, but it was always fluent and musical. This sound did not need a film dimension 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

The programs boldly mixed composers from different eras: Ligeti and Mahler, Bach and Varèse. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Wouldn’t you have wanted someone to plant a hidden microphone in Bach’s church as he rehearsed the performers for the next Sunday’s cantata? Bob Dylan and the “Hot Hand” 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Bach, most of her colleagues have ceded the art form to jazz players. Pianist Gabriela Montero combines classical improv with a spicy Latin beat 2011-02-05T15:53:00Z

Like all piano students, Mr. Lang played a lot of Bach as a child, from the easy minuets to the encyclopedic “Well-Tempered Clavier.” Lang Lang, Piano Thunderer, Greets Bach’s Austere ‘Goldbergs’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

As a child, she remembers being thrilled to hear him perform Bach’s awesome organ works. Review: A Pianist Reveals Bach’s Inner Dancer 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

Michael Beattie, much as Bach would have, played the organ continuo part while offering just occasional cues. Review: An Intimate ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Has a Shattering Effect 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

It was virtuoso, yet, apart from the Bach, not uplifting enough. Thomas Trotter 2010-05-09T21:45:00Z

And yet her reading of Bach’s Partita in D, its Chaconne sparkling with freshness and grace, became one of the most memorable renderings of this towering masterwork of the violin repertory I have heard. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

“When I discovered Bach, it was kind of a breakthrough,” she said. Listen to Frøkedal 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Schiff may be best known as an incomparable Bach player. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Escape the Handel that surrounds us every holiday season with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s annual holiday presentations of that other Baroque great, Bach. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Here he takes on Bach’s Italian Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s “The Seasons” and a selection of Scherzos by Chopin. Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

His solo Bach encore – the Sarabande from the D minor Partita – was just as effective, the harmonies touched in, the melody sustained but never overemphasised. LSO/Bychkov/Kavakos – review 2012-11-26T13:36:10Z

“It has helped me through challenging times, with a death in the family,” Mary Pat Buerkle, Mr. Ma’s longtime manager, said of his Bach. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

A version of this article appears in print on February 2, 2014, on page AR2 of the with the headline: Three Composers Basking in Bach. | Classical: Three Composers Basking in Bach 2014-01-31T18:34:10Z

Gardiner came on the platform and gave a fascinating illustrated class on Bach's compositional technique before turning that famous basilisk stare on us and insisting we keep with his beat. Nabucco; Bach Marathon; Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott – review 2013-04-06T23:06:25Z

Before museums proliferated, most art was in private collections, Ms. Bach said. In New York and More, Public Art Is Taking on Thorny Social Issues 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

Bach wrote his set of 15 Two-Part Inventions as teaching pieces for amateurs of the keyboard, as he put it in a preface. Music Review: Simone Dinnerstein Gives New Twists to Classics 2014-01-24T20:42:00Z

"Right now we're waiting for the sedation to wear off, for him to fully wake up," James Bach told the Associated Press news agency. Author Richard Bach crashes plane 2012-09-01T20:57:31Z

Bach said the purchase was a logical step because they both have Swiss nationality now and “feel very comfortable in Switzerland.” Tina Turner, husband snap up vast $76M estate on Lake Zurich 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Bach prospers brilliantly through this combination of performer and instrument. An All-but-Extinct Piano Plays Once More 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

In keeping with that spirit, the Bach suite was performed here without the trumpets and timpani that add so much to its ebullient mood. 4x4 Baroque Music Festival Presents ‘The Grand Overture’ 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

They too started dancing, holding hands, to the music of Haydn and Bach. Critic’s Notebook: The Sing for Hope Pianos Project 2013-06-06T21:07:24Z

This event, a fundraiser for the gym’s Give a Kid a Dream program, will feature repertory ranging from Bach and Mozart to contemporary pieces composed in honor of the sport. Spare Times for Children for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Bach needs a dancing spring in the step, yet even the opening Kyrie had the feeling of trudging along, dragging a heavy weight. BBCNOW/Fischer 2010-04-19T22:30:00Z

As Bach did in his Passions, Tippett used arias, recitatives and choruses to carry the story, with a male soloist as narrator. Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie 2012-02-05T22:40:45Z

And when Bach’s bouncy Courante followed that section’s extended contemplations, it sounded a little slick — a puzzle piece that had been smoothed out to fit a place where it didn’t belong. Review: ‘Fragments’ Proposes a New Kind of Cello Recital 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Sometimes Bach divides the chorus and the orchestra into pairs, and there is conflict. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

The son of a piano teacher, his favourite pianist is the late Canadian Glenn Gould, renowned for his interpretations of JS Bach. Greek prodigy pens "Isolation Waltz" for a world in lockdown 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

On the Sony stage, Bach showed off footage of hectic blaster fire on a desert landscape. E3: Sony puts a date on 'The Last Guardian,' showcases new 'Uncharted' 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Given these circumstances, you might logically conclude that there is no such thing as too much Bach. Dance Review: Compagnie Thor Performs ?To the Ones I Love? - Review 2011-09-30T22:56:26Z

Bach, Mozart and Handel, among many other composers, wrote sacred music for churches that is typically played now in secular settings. Preview: Sacred Music Foundation celebrates religious music's classical roots 2010-07-26T22:58:00Z

The Bach Cantatas have long been a specialty. The Week Ahead 2012-03-09T19:52:13Z

If you slow it down, there are parts that sound exactly like Bach. Violinist Jennifer Koh bridges past and present 2012-03-15T20:58:04Z

You’ll find it all over my music, a lot in the ‘Mother Goose’ of Ravel, and as far back as Bach. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z

As Kennicott grieves, he decides to finally learn the formidable Goldberg Variations, arguably Bach’s most important keyboard work. Review | In ‘Counterpoint,’ a memoirist reflects on love, loss and Bach 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Bach knew the mandolin, cello and bass in their earlier incarnations. Instrumental mayhem in the name of Bach: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and company 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Instead, they are part of a grass-roots movement called Bach in the Subways. Los Angeles' Bach in the Subways celebration ready to roll Saturday 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The Grace Church Bach Festival is one of this town’s better-kept secrets. Review | A well-hidden Bach festival offers cheerful relief on a summer afternoon 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

Yet the very sight of these humble objects is enough to make a Bach fan's spine tingle. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z

Only a handful of Bach’s entries in Calov concern music, and these have received the most extensive — indeed, typically the only — attention from biographers. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

But they are of their time; you might as well argue that Bach’s concertos are quaint once you’re heard Beethoven’s. Music Review: ‘Source of Uncertainty,’ Featuring Morton Subotnick, at Schimmel Center 2012-07-08T21:29:42Z

The director also makes distinctive use of music, filling the soundtrack with classical pieces—orchestrations of compositions by Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms. My Favorite Halloween Movie 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

The pace eases into a moon-gazing stillness: Bach in his left hand, Debussy in his right. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Johann Sebastian Bach belonged to a large family of musicians spanning two centuries. Marking Johann Sebastian’s birthday with a tribute to the Bach family 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Should it matter if a Bach “Passion” is performed out of season? Review: American Classical Orchestra, With an Unseasonal ‘Passion’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Few classical recordings have aroused as much fascination as Glenn Gould’s 1981 take on Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. Glenn Gould’s Bach Score Surfaces, Scrawls and All 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

"You have to enter Bach's age and live with it for a while by studying it and understanding the social and historical context of the music," Podger says. Rachel Podger 2010-12-09T21:31:00Z

Photograph: Graham de Lacy If I had to choose the music of only one composer it would be Bach, closely followed by Mozart, whose operas I love passionately, Beethoven, Monteverdi, Rameau; Brahms, Berlioz, Schumann….. Q&A: Rosemary Nalden 2013-05-10T13:14:51Z

Sundry administrative records indicate that Bach often fell into trouble over philosophical differences with his employers about the place of music in worship and in education. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The composer, who would live only until 1916, was 40 and haunted by Wagner and Bach. Max Reger a crowd pleaser at a full and festive Disney Hall 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gandelsman said that while preparing for performances of the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, he is drawing on his experience playing jigs and reels alongside Mr. Hayes. Brooklyn Rider Joins String Quartets Exploring the Nonclassical 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Bach and the world premiere of Matthew Gonzales' "Nocturne" for String Orchestra. Classical roundup: Guests at the symphony, Schumann's birthday, a Bach cantata 2010-06-03T20:12:00Z

For Kennicott, everything Bach reveals about the beauty and pain of being alive is embedded in the Goldbergs, and his deep analysis of this music feels like a trip around the globe. Review | In ‘Counterpoint,’ a memoirist reflects on love, loss and Bach 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

His hope, in putting together a program of selections from Bach’s sonatas and partitas alongside contemporary works, was that “a kinship between them will emerge,” he wrote. Review: A Violinist Connects the Dots From Bach to the Present 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

When seven, eight or nine voices combined to weave the musical tapestry in which Wilson set those words about "culminated ruins domino," it rose to the level of any of Bach's greatest choral compositions. An assertive Brian Wilson surveys beloved hits at Greek Theatre 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

A thought-provoking recital from one of our most distinguished pianists pairs Bach and Chopin, two composers who don’t instantly spring to mind as natural partners but might well turn out to be. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

And just as the atonality of the Pintscher melts in its concluding bars, the Berg ends with a transfiguring set of variations on a Bach chorale. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: At Avery Fisher Hall, Modernism and Egyptian Mythology 2010-03-19T22:13:00Z

But his book is also very much about the things that kept him alive — Bach’s music, Proust’s fiction, friends and acuteness of all variety. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

The music — Jewish prayers, African hymns, Greek folk songs, a Bach violin sonata — is dreamy and grave. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

There have been more questions than answers since the news broke last month that the celebrated Oregon Bach Festival had fired its artistic director, Matthew Halls. A Firing and a Question of Race Roil the Oregon Bach Festival 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

It remains unspecified what the titular article modifies, but if one thing is definite about this of-the-moment dance, it’s that Mr. Morris knows his Bach. Review: Mark Morris Conducts at Tanglewood, and Offers a Debut 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

The highlights of the 23 selections include sparkling, colorful renditions of gems by Couperin, Rameau and Scarlatti; two Bach transcriptions; and a lively interpretation of “Wedding Day at Troldhaugen,” from Grieg’s Lyric Pieces. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Boston Baroque, Rafal Blechacz, Alexandre Tharaud and More 2014-01-01T17:00:22Z

When the players had a clear, distinctive musical character to embody — a blithe movement from the Telemann quartet or the slumber aria from Bach’s cantata — they tackled it with focused collaboration. Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

Ms. Barnes’s women are so intentionally eccentric that you wonder why she returns to bits of Bach cello music, which seems to show up the antics onstage as minor league and daffy. Dance Review: At the Joyce, Kate Weare and Monica Bill Barnes 2010-08-12T22:50:00Z

In particular it played classic symphonic Bach, with rich vibrato and depth. Music Review: Pinchas Zukerman Leads Philharmonic in Bach and Mozart 2012-06-07T21:47:01Z

The Solo Sonatas and Partitas of Bach, in which his sustained, radiant sound seemed to draw ribbons of light in the dark. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

It’s a simple title, but one that evokes the essential solitude that draws listeners and violinists to Bach’s solo works for violin. Jennifer Koh’s Bach and Beyond Part III for Violin 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

In the concert hall, I found Mr. Haimovitz’s Bach less than persuasive. Matt Haimovitz and Bach, Colonizing Columbia’s Campus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

Barber soup is no more palatable than Bach soup. Gemma New test-drives the Long Beach Symphony with an interesting, ambitious program 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

The musical forces of the parent church, Trinity Wall Street, directed by Julian Wachner, have presented no end of thrilling Bach performances there in recent years. Review: Apollo’s Fire Enhances ‘St. John Passion’ 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

St. Matthew’s Music Guild Annual holiday concert features works by Bach and Corelli, plus Handel’s “Messiah,” Part I, followed by an audience sing-along on the “Hallelujah” chorus. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Dec. 3-10: Angel City Chorale, Pacific Opera Project and more 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

His Bach is genial and airy, light but not too fast, with subtle, stylish ornamentation in some repeats. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Somebody made the paper on which Bach wrote his scores. Multimedia Tafelmusik concert immerses audience in Bach’s creative cycle 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

In his drawing room I listened to Bach and managed for the first time to hear Schoenberg. Carl E. Schorske, 100, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Historian Saw Vienna as Pivotal 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Saturday’s program pays homage to Bach with a harpsichord concerto, a cantata and an orchestral suite. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 9-15 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

He plays works influenced by dance, ranging from Bach’s Partita No. 4 to Morton Gould’s “Boogie-Woogie Étude,” and including works by Chopin, Scriabin, Granados and others. Classical Playlist: Bach, Haydn, Seattle Symphony and More 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

And why too much Bach is never enough. Essential Arts & Culture: A 2017 rewind, lots of 'Nutcracker' and Bach, art and selfie marketing 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Seated sternly before the Philharmonia Orchestra in London in the 1960s, he appeared to many to be the solemn custodian of Bach and Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. Otto Klemperer’s Conducting Still Stuns, 50 Years After His Death 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

Anchoring it is that of Bach, with a gorgeous slow movement framed by brisk and communicative playing. Classical Playlist: Puccini, Messiaen, Schubert and More 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

As with other shows produced by the ensemble, this one combines music — Bach, Schubert and Liszt, performed onstage — with straight theater, woven through with details culled from the author’s letters and diaries. Robert Fairchild: From God to Monster (and Choreographer) 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

Parts of that film show her frustrated and tense: At one point, recording Bach, she flings her bow to the ground in exasperation with her own playing. A Violinist as Riveting in Silence as in Sound 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

She grew up listening to traditional Zimbabwean styles, as well as James Brown, Michael Jackson, Roberta Flack, the Rolling Stones, Bach and Mozart – an eclectic mix that would influence her later songwriting. Chiwoniso obituary 2013-07-26T18:08:38Z

Perhaps each Bach movement could introduce a whole work by a single composer, to give its ideas room to breathe. Review: ‘Fragments’ Proposes a New Kind of Cello Recital 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Will, played by Ryder Bach, is grateful to be finished with the humiliating ordeal of high school. 'Girlfriend' visits the sweet, tender and perilous summer love of two young men 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

Works such as Handel’s Harpsichord Suite in D minor, Schubert’s Piano Trio in E-flat Major and Bach’s Concerto for Two Harpsichords felt right at home — the pop music of Lyndon’s world. ‘Stanley Kubrick’s Sound Odyssey’ takes audience on an adventure through the auteur’s classical selections 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Klemperer’s late Bach — steady, heavy, momentous — might sound alien now, decades after the period-instrument movement defined itself against interpretations exactly like this. Otto Klemperer’s Conducting Still Stuns, 50 Years After His Death 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

Wieland isn’t as brilliant a prosecutor as Bach, and she doesn’t immediately zero in on the director’s fascist tendencies. ‘Dietrich & Riefenstahl’ review: Two women who made fateful choices 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

So an evening of Bach and Handel by the excellent English harpsichordist Richard Egarr at Weill Recital Hall on Monday was most welcome. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The set was so highly regarded among musicians that Bach made arrangements of at least six of the concertos. Music Review: 6 Vivaldis, One of Them Arranged by Bach 2010-08-31T20:48:00Z

But in a perennial presentation like the society’s holiday performances of Bach’s six “Brandenburg” Concertos, the recycling pays special dividends. ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos at Alice Tully Hall 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

Listeners and scholars who speak of Bach’s works as “sacred” versus “secular” generally understand these terms to mean “religious” as opposed to “nonreligious.” There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

So here is a fresh Bach-infused program without a single Bach work on it. A Bracing Breath of Spring Air From All Directions 2011-04-29T16:17:11Z

He asked members of Ensemble Signal to demonstrate the way Bach used the call-and-response method and doubled voicings on instruments, both techniques Mr. Reich also incorporated in his piece. Steve Reich’s ‘Tehillim’ Meets Bach at Miller Theater 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

On Nov. 28, he’ll pair his own new work with selections from Bach, and on March 9 he opens the hall’s monthlong Migrations festival. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

This is, of course, extremely predictable, but in the same way that the final resolving chord of a Bach fugue is predictable: it is absolutely satisfying and entirely necessary. A Unified Theory of the “Rocky” Movies 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Tines restructured the Latin mass familiar from Bach and Haydn, beginning, as usual, with the Kyrie but ending with the Benedictus. Review: Davóne Tines Hones the Recital Form to a Fine Point 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

There will be several free concerts in the center’s David Rubenstein Atrium, including the pianist Francesco Tristano playing Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations alongside projections of a digital city being drawn in real time. Lincoln Center’s Next Season: ‘Elektra,’ Cleveland, Rouse 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

It is highly attuned to Bach’s rhythms, sounding them out with folk-dance footwork. Review: When Real Life Adds an Unexpected Round to the Fugue 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Like a solo Bach line, music wove its way through Sept. ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering September 11 With Music 2011-09-11T21:09:27Z

Christmas With Bach, Times Two Handel’s “Messiah,” it appears, will reign forever and ever over the Christmas season, no matter that it was written for Easter. Music Review: Canticum Novum and Collegium Vocale Gent Sing Bach Oratorio 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z

Don't pigeonhole me as a woman who plays Bach, it seemed to say. Angela Hewitt 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z

Byrd, Tallis and Bach — I think their harmonic changes are more emotional, and sometimes more radical than a lot of 19th-century composers. How William Byrd Influences Music, 400 Years After His Death 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

An unexpected note of optimism is suddenly heard in the finale, which segues from anxious counterpoint to an uplifting Bach chorale played by a solo trumpet. Music Review: Riverside Symphony Performs Works by Takemitsu and Honegger 2014-01-26T21:13:20Z

The program opened with the Bach, played by the soloists and an ensemble of about two dozen strings and continuo. Review: With Bach as a Catalyst, Thierry Escaich’s Lavish Concerto 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The chorus is the Salzburg Bach Choir. On sale in the lobby is a German musicological opera guide to “West Side Story,” one in a series that includes, “Don Giovanni,” “Tristan und Isolde” and “Fidelio.” Gustavo Dudamel, Cecilia Bartoli and a grim, bizarre 'West Side Story' in Salzburg 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Her sound, too, balances mastery with mystery; her recent recordings of those partitas and sonatas for solo violin trace Bach’s lines with a touch that feels like exquisite, if singular, penmanship. Midori’s career started with a fleeting moment. It’s evolved into a lasting legacy. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

The fluidity between the secular and liturgical in Bach is also illustrated by the fact that several Brandenburg Concertos find repurposing in his church cantatas for Leipzig, where he moved after Köthen. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Bach is available to use without a licensing fee, after all, and the composer isn’t around to protest a misuse. A Children’s Show About Everything, Especially Music 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

In the film, Moore and Bond girl Barbara Bach escape a helicopter attack by driving the Esprit off a pier into the sea. 007 'submarine car' sells for $865,000 2013-09-09T21:44:20Z

Bach, Dvorak and Verdi all wrote musical settings for it. Frederick Douglass, July 4th, and remembering Babylon in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

It is set to five movements from two Bach concertos. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-30T20:37:16Z

Not only did Tognetti combine surfing with Bach and Paganini, but he attempted, with what looks like inspiring success, to entice Australian surfers into his musical world. 'The Reef' concert had a chance to catch a new wave of fans by pairing surf sounds and scenes 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

In his own lifetime, Johann Christian Bach enjoyed a career in London whose fabulous success Esfahani compares to Andrew Lloyd Webber. A controversial harpsichordist? The adventurous Mahan Esfahani makes his Seattle Symphony debut 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

In a 2002 interview with The Times, she was asked whether she would ever return with the remaining Bach solo works. 5 Classical Music Faces to Watch This Season 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, members of the orchestra will perform works by Mahler, Bach and Ohad Ben-Ari accompanied by readings from authors including Elie Wiesel. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

The music draws from the heritage of Bach, Liszt and Wagner, while taking modern paths and anticipating atonality. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Stephanie Blythe, Eva-Maria Houben, Nicholas Phillips and More 2014-03-05T17:18:59Z

And no one who wanted an easy time of it would commit to three dozen exposed, exhausting performances of the complete Bach suites. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Bach concerts in New York, which ended 10 years ago for reasons of Mr. Schickele’s health. Review: Bach at St. Paul’s, and the Fictional Relative, P.D.Q., at Town Hall 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Bach’s world is a measured progression of orderly events concluding within the comforting confines of a circle. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: On Day Eight, Just One More Time 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

To help them negotiate that challenge, the Seattle Opera recruited dialect coach Cay Bach, a trained musician who interprets in Vietnamese and French for the state's Department of Social and Health Services. 'Amelia': Seattle Opera embraces challenge on a grand scale 2010-05-10T04:27:00Z

Plus, because there’s never enough Bach: Times reviewer Richard S. Ginell reviews the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s cycle of all six “wondrous” Brandenburg Concertos. Essential Arts & Culture: A 2017 rewind, lots of 'Nutcracker' and Bach, art and selfie marketing 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Bach takes up much real estate in this memoir and Kennicott spares no detail, providing fascinating insight into Bach as boy, husband, father, master organist, teacher and, of course, composer. Review | In ‘Counterpoint,’ a memoirist reflects on love, loss and Bach 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Turner, known for such hits as “Proud Mary” and “What’s Love Got To Do With It” and dynamic on-stage performances, married German music executive Bach in 2013 after a long relationship. Tina Turner, husband snap up vast $76M estate on Lake Zurich 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

I could probably get the same effect from an Altoid, but I appreciate that just trying out Bach's got me thinking creatively about how to handle any anxiety eruptions. Can I spend my way out of my anxiety? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

Tharp, 74, found herself turning to Bach keyboard pieces that she'd known since her youth in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, which precipitated questions about the reason and purpose of making art.  Twyla Tharp is marking her 50-year anniversary by looking ahead 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

In Australia, earlier this year, an academy interpretation of Bach received a standing ovation from 1,700 people. Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z

In 2006, Trogen, a Swiss town, began hosting a series of performances of the complete choral works by Bach, with their sequence determined by the liturgical calendar for which they were written. Review: Ekmeles Performs John Cage at the Avant Music Festival 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

I told them how AI had successfully generated music in the style of Bach. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Seattle Chamber Music Society’s 2017 Summer Festival to feature musical postcards from across Europe, an American composer’s world premiere and a community performance of Bach before the closing open-air concert at Volunteer Park. The 2017 Seattle chamber-music fest promises a world premiere and lots of winds 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

We finish the whole show with Bach, which is a great way to introduce classical music to an audience. They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Bach wrote in “Leni” that there was little “meaningful comparison” between the beloved star and the notorious director. ‘Dietrich & Riefenstahl’ review: Two women who made fateful choices 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

The Bach minifestival includes concerts and events in collaboration with the 92nd Street Y, which also announced its new season this week. New York Philharmonic Announces Next Season?s Schedule 2012-02-22T17:04:47Z

Baroque Spring will feature a mixture of music, drama and comedy, with highlights including actor Dominic West reading poetry from the period and a celebration of the 'Genius of Bach'. Radio 3 to host Baroque Spring 2013-01-31T17:40:21Z

Asking today’s composers to react to Bach is a dubious idea. Matt Haimovitz and Bach, Colonizing Columbia’s Campus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

In a lecture with Red Bull Music Academy, Glenn-Copeland recalled his father playing the likes of Bach and Chopin on the piano for five hours a day. Don’t despair: Beverly Glenn-Copeland actually has hope to offer us in 2020 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

“I was trying to pretend that I was Bach with one hand,” he said. Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Anyone who attended his Beethoven and Bach cycles of the last few years knows what kind of treat he offers. Sheppard tackles Schubert at Meany on May 5 2010-05-04T20:23:00Z

The Brandenburgs are “a high point in the history of Bach, and very much embodied abstraction, moving architecture,” Ms. De Keersmaeker said. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the Passionate Formalist 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Johann Sebastian Bach played with numbers in his later works. Magic numbers 2010-07-01T15:09:00Z

In the pantheon of cello gods, a place is surely reserved for the late, great Pablo Casals — not least for rescuing from obscurity the six magnificent suites for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach. Paying homage to a man and his instrument 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Seattle Symphony featured artist Hilary Hahn returned for a compelling performance of the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 and, for an encore, one of the Bach pieces that catapulted her to stardom as a teen. A high-wattage evening: violinist Hilary Hahn with Seattle Symphony 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Debates about the “authentic” way to perform Bach continue to rage, and the period-performance aesthetic is too multifaceted to reduce to a single approach. Mystery Mass: Seattle Pro Musica celebrates Bach’s enigmatic masterpiece in B minor 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Less than a decade younger than Bach, Roman sounds considerably more modern, more even than Handel. Music Review: Norwegian Ensemble Flaunts Its Bows and Body English 2011-03-24T22:04:24Z

The sort of expressionist fury with which Menuhin marked up Bach or the stenciled grace of a Schubert manuscript reveal much about the human behind the artist. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Musicians often focus on one or several composers at different stages in their careers, but Bach, Beethoven, Ligeti and Ives — the backbone of Mr. Denk’s recent recitals — are a more unusual combination. Music Review: Jeremy Denk?s Recital at the 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-06T23:30:10Z

Nathan now plays the piano at grade five standard; his favourite composers are Bach and Beethoven. ‘I’m a human calculator’: what’s it like to be a child genius – or to raise one? 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

For those who like newer music, Saturday's concert with Team GB's National Youth Orchestra has Muhly, Meredith and Messiaen; for those who don't, there's Bach's B Minor Mass on Thursday. Proms roundup 2012-08-01T16:14:54Z

But the Montreal Symphony is here with Kent Nagano leading a program tracing the evolution of the symphony, from Gabrieli brass works and Bach sinfonias to ’s Fifth. Spring Performance: Music : Calling All Orchestras: Bring a Creative Program 2011-02-20T02:01:55Z

I must have been about 13 when I first heard a recording of Bach’s Mass in B Minor. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

It offered a sort of Vespers service, incorporating a Gabrieli motet and Bach organ works. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

“Any music that’s happened since Bach, even jazz, to me is unthinkable without him,” Mr. Gardiner said. A Bach Portrait, Heading to Germany, Gets Musical Send-Off 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Sift through tuxedos, gowns, ties and jewelry while enjoying Gershwin tunes, Bach concertos, Joplin rags and more from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Weekend Miser: Back in Time on Governors I. and at Lincoln Center 2010-07-15T21:02:00Z

But it was especially meaningful to hear the Bach Collegium Japan’s account of this astounding masterpiece on Tuesday night at . In a Mass, a Cradle of Consolation for Japan 2011-03-23T22:27:34Z

Hough brought the same incisiveness to Franck's Prélude, Chorale and Fugue, its climactic contrapuntal web balancing that of the Bach, but ending in a typically Franckian carillon flourish. Stephen Hough 2010-06-02T21:31:00Z

With his light, lyric voice he has excelled in Bach, Baroque opera and song repertory, especially Schubert. New Recordings: Britten’s Serenade and Nocturne by Tenor Mark Padmore 2012-07-08T03:53:15Z

He once travelled hundreds of miles to visit Bach, but when he got there, Bach was out. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z

Bach was probably the cleverest composer who ever lived; the mind-boggling complexity of much of his late music, in particular, has yet to be matched by any composer. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

There are also lists for composers, including the usual suspects — Bach, Mozart, Beethoven — as well as contemporary artists like Kaija Saariaho and Steve Reich. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Bach’s motivation for composing his Mass in B minor is lost in the fog of history, but the result isn’t in dispute. The Week Ahead: Spring fair, George Strait, Susan Kieffer 2014-04-02T23:45:18Z

“And it’s fitting for him to lead our homecoming to the hall he helped build, reopening just as it opened 40 years ago: with his own orchestration of a Bach masterpiece.” ArtsBeat: Minnesota Orchestra Announces First Concert After Lockout 2014-01-17T21:07:02Z

This may be the first recital program in history to balance the three Bs — Bach, Beethoven and Brahms — with 13 short new pieces. Hahn, Lisitsa mix old, new with dazzling results 2011-10-18T18:26:04Z

Growing up, he loved Bach, Tchaikovsky and Béla Bartók, and started composing his own songs when he was 5. The Many Sides to Dan Brown 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

The top layer was made up of a short two-part invention and a trio sonata; the Bach bread underneath was the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor for harpsichord.  Bach forever! Camerata Pacifica enters the fray 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Rather as with the debate about whether Bach sounds best on the piano or the harpsichord, there is no right answer, and most Bach lovers are happy to be of two minds. Review | British harpsichordist plays Bach with precision, clarity and finesse at Phillips Collection 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

There were moments, all evening, when he seemed to be sight reading, which was more than a little peculiar because everything other than those Bach pieces were either written or arranged by Newman. '60s organist Anthony Newman continues to perplex and astound 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

It starts meaning everything, the small world becomes the big world and everything starts shining and becoming meaningful...Bach's brain was all over the place all the time. Wispelwey: Loneliness of the long-distance cellist 2013-01-31T11:21:34Z

Massive amounts of Bach! — and the musical mountain he's climbing this year is titled "Mostly Brahms." UW piano prof to perform a bundle of Brahms 2011-02-08T00:50:10Z

Germanic repertory like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven “needs much more maturity and growing as a person,” she said. Yuja Wang, Pianist and Fashion Plate 2012-04-08T03:23:10Z

We find Henry James a reliable way to order your mind when everything becomes too much – the literary equivalent of Beethoven or Bach. Fiction prescription: why libraries make you happy 2013-02-08T18:36:01Z

He played his own transcriptions of two Bach cello suites, No. 1 in G and No. 2 in D minor, and the quick dances were notable for their clean, precise lines and perfectly judged balances. Music Review: A Guitarist Adds Depth With Some Extra Strings 2011-02-21T23:01:33Z

And it is now on its way to the Leipzig Bach Festival in Germany on Saturday and the Royal Academy of Music on Sunday. Review: Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Young Musicians in Bach 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

He is particularly irritated by the soullessness of contemporary Bach interpretations, which he says lack passion, fire and dynamism. Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z

The very brief segment allotted to her begins with a French television clip about “Switched-On Bach” and its high sales. ‘Sisters With Transistors’ Review: How Women Pioneered Electronic Music 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Filling that framework, Tines elided spirituals, Bach arias and pieces by 20th-century Black composers into an hourlong monologue. Review: Davóne Tines Hones the Recital Form to a Fine Point 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Still, the Bach took up nearly half of the concert’s 40-minute first part. Music Review: Evolution, and a Definitive Endpoint 2011-05-15T21:30:31Z

Paul Elie's "Reinventing Bach" and Daniel Mendelsohn "Waiting for the Barbarians" were among the finalists in criticism. Caro, Katherine Boo nominated for critics prizes 2013-01-14T17:16:04Z

I grabbed the bag and settled it next to me by the piano, then started to practice some Bach. There’s a Skeleton in My Closet, Literally 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Bach, and his writing style reflects that homage to counterpoint and voice leading. Carpe Diem String Quartet takes its music to the people 2010-11-18T02:52:00Z

The solo, restored to “Episodes,” heightens the contrast with the final section, which is a kind of downshifting back into balletic order set to a Webern arrangement of Bach. City Ballet Review: History, Rarity and an Odd, Fascinating Solo 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Here he’s referring to my standard press statement: “ ‘Prelude and Fugues,’ danced to Bach, is the world as it ought to be. Twyla Tharp on the Road: Shut Up and Dance 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

Here, it showcases the pianist Ji, who offers a program including Bach’s Partita No. 1; the Bach-Busoni Organ Toccata, Adagio and Fugue; Ravel’s “La Valse” and Corigliano’s “Etude Fantasy.” Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T17:27:04Z

She brought the same clarity to Ravel that she brought to Bach. Israeli pianist Einav Yarden at the Phillips 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

There is some Bach, and there are church bells. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

What is poignant about the original “Des Baches Wiegenlied” is the simplicity — just tenor, piano and a gently repeating melody — that mirrors the lonely isolation described in the text. Music Review: The Knights in Concert in Brooklyn - Review 2012-01-11T22:28:09Z

One violinist tuned up with threads of Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins. Music Review: The Knights Echo John Cage’s Happenings at the Stone 2012-06-05T21:28:02Z

The concept was elegant: on every Coney Island-bound F train platform, someone would be playing the prelude to Bach’s Suite No. 1 for solo cello continuously for an hour. Make Music Winter Brings Music Outdoors 2011-12-22T23:27:08Z

The local chamber orchestra wild Up entered down the aisles, slowly assembling fragments of Bach, almost note by note. Ezralow Dance Makes Its Debut in Los Angeles 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

In the early mornings over three days Mr. Brockington and Ms. Hutchinson filmed themselves and six colleagues performing excerpts from “New Bach,” by the company’s resident choreographer, Robert Garland. Dancing in the Streets of Harlem, and Gathering to Dance, Merce-Style 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Thus the impetus behind Bach’s remark was not progressivist but doctrinal. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

This recording, the one I grew up with, harkens to an earlier time of weighty, thick-textured Bach performances. Classical Playlist: Herbert von Karajan, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and More 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

A regular visitor to Los Angeles for over four decades, pianist Murray Perahia appeared at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday, blazing through a treacherous program of music by Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Franck and Chopin. Murray Perahia evokes suspense, sadness and exhilaration at Disney Hall 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Bach performed in coffeehouses, and Mozart was famously thrilled when the audience burst into applause in the middle of his “Paris” symphony. Seattle Symphony is up for 3 Grammys. Here’s a beginners guide to enjoying the Symphony. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

But some scholars propose that it was not composed by Bach, and I realized that this was likely the first and last time I’d hear it in a Bach organ marathon. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

Like Bach, whose “Goldberg Variations” he has recorded with great rigor and warmth, Denk knows how to spin rich counterpoint out of multiple lines. Jeremy Denk’s Memoir Features Music, Love and More Music 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

On a video of the moment he posted, Bach, 35, responded with a glowing, knowing smirk — not that he felt comfortable. Asian American masculinity is being increasingly celebrated. But many men still face stereotyping. 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ax and Mr. Ma offered a richly hued interpretation of the Adagio, whose chorale reflects Mendelssohn’s admiration of Bach. Music Review: Perlman, Ma and Ax in Live From Lincoln Center 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z

Some two decades after his Bach discovery, Mr. Harnoncourt admitted Mozart to his pantheon: “Bach and Mozart,” he said, “weren’t mortals.” An Austrian Maestro’s Career, Seen Through His Recordings 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

In this brighter, more classical work, to Bach, careful preparation preceded much of the action, as if Ms. LeCrone were trying to perfect each moment before moving on to the next. Review: Emery LeCrone Dance and Amy Seiwert’s Imagery Balance Elements 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” is an enormous work, six cantatas strung together in a sequence of delicacy and wonder. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Bach bookends a program that includes Telemann and Villa-Lobos. Classical roundup: Schwarz back on the podium; Denk back in Seattle with Bach 2010-03-25T21:44:00Z

Along with his Kate Bush project, Mr. Bleckmann is preparing to record a pair of Bach cantatas with a Spanish Baroque ensemble, and a songwriting collaboration with an Icelandic avant-garde jazz guitarist. Theo Bleckmann Performs Kate Bush?s Songs 2012-04-04T22:21:32Z

Drawing on everyone from the Beatles to Bach, Nickel Creek snagged a Grammy award in 2003 and has sold millions of records. The Week Ahead: Beer tasting, Viking Fest, Rick Atkinson 2014-05-07T22:17:13Z

There are four sections of “Preludes and Fugues,” one of the two works on our program and set to Bach, that were created from memories of dancing I have from those years. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Yet even in a stylish courante or minuet, Bach the ingenious master of counterpoint is ever-present. Review: Roman Rabinovich Plays Bach and More at SubCulture 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

It worked for choristers and instrumentalists of L’Ensemble Médical, which, joined by the Barnard Columbia Chorus, performed Bach’s Mass in B minor at Carnegie on Wednesday evening. ArtsBeat: On Music and Medicine: A Performance by L'Ensemble M?dical 2011-02-17T17:30:07Z

Neither Shostakovich’s counterpoint nor ideas have the inspired character of Bach’s keyboard preludes and fugues, but they come from a deep, dark, sonorous place that Levit revealed as only made possible by Bach’s inspiration. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

But at age 10 I knew it wasn't good enough in the same way that I knew that singing a Bach chorale in church was. Janet Baker: A life in music 2012-07-13T21:54:02Z

Tepfer ascribes to the explanation that Bach wanted to focus beginners on only the “easiest keys” — that is, the ones with the fewest sharps or flats. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

Performing as part of the Carnegie Hall festival Before Bach, the six-voice ensemble offered a richly international program of Renaissance madrigals and the like. Review: I Fagiolini, Richard Goode and the Juilliard Opera in Concert 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

But when you play Bach or Beethoven, you get judged. Adventurous violinist Leila Josefowicz to make a Seattle appearance 2011-03-31T20:38:06Z

Patrick Bach of Electronic Arts' Dice Studios discussed the game's single and co-player renditions of "Star Wars: Battlefront." E3: Sony puts a date on 'The Last Guardian,' showcases new 'Uncharted' 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Lin played excerpts from the first book of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” and from that Opus 87 of Shostakovich, which was modeled after “The Well-Tempered Clavier.” Music Review: David Fray and Lionel Bringuier at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-08T22:08:00Z

Heinrich Schiff, a cellist whose lyrical, understated style and singing tone made him a profound interpreter of music from Bach through a long list of contemporary composers, died on Friday in Vienna. Heinrich Schiff, Cellist and Conductor, Dies at 65 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

I still love masses, passions, requiems, and cantatas and don’t really understand why Johann Sebastian Bach ever wrote his secular cantatas, which are so obviously inferior. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z

“He’s always got the right thing to say at the right time,” says Kristie Bach, Chasten’s high school drama teacher. Chasten Buttigieg has been a homeless community college student and a Starbucks barista. Now, he could be ‘first gentleman.’ 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Last month, it collaborated with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street in a performance of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion,” conducted by Gary Thor Wedow at Alice Tully Hall, that caught fire and magic. Music Review: Juilliard415 Performs ‘St. John Passion’ 2014-04-07T20:57:41Z

At 19, as soloist with the Hallé, he gave an astonishing concert of three concertos in one evening, by Bach, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z

In her “Bach Odyssey” recital at the 92nd Street Y, you knew that this excellent pianist would get there eventually, but it took a moment for her personality to blossom. Bach Breathing Free: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

And there was plenty of anti-Semitism in the Lutheran Church of Bach’s day. The worst of Bach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

It was about being told that a girl couldn't play guitar when you're sitting in school next to girls playing violin and cello and Beethoven and Bach. What happened to angry female music stars? 2010-03-25T22:30:00Z

Conveniently forgotten is the fact that Mendelssohn’s great-aunt, Sara Itzig Levy, was an enthusiastic collector of Bach manuscripts well before Mendelssohn’s birth. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Bach didn’t specify a performance order; Mr. Kigawa inserted the four canons between groups of different types of fugues. Music Review: Taka Kigawa Plays Bach at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-08-28T21:20:20Z

Yes, there was a pas de deux by Agnes de Mille from “The Other,” but with that was yet another ballet set to Bach and called, most unimaginatively, “Concerto.” Dance Review: Medhi Bahiri and de Mille Works by Ballet NY - Review 2011-11-20T22:59:48Z

But most important over all, the playing was committed and vital, with no sense of routine: Bach as bold as Bach should sound. ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos at Alice Tully Hall 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

This is how to hear Bach’s organ works: while doing something else. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

The music Mr. Lang wrote for the gifted Mr. Tao in this haunting scene is no Bach pastiche, but a cosmic rumination, with melodic fragments, circling inner voices and hazy harmonies. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Never fully embraced by modern pianists — unlike his father, Johann Sebastian Bach — C.P.E. An All-but-Extinct Piano Plays Once More 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

Her concerts ran from Debussy and Chopin to Beethoven and Bach, but giving lessons was still her livelihood. Dah Dah Doo Dah Dah Dah Dah Dah Doo Dah La Ti Mi Fa La So Fa Mi 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Greenleaf was a predictably fine soloist in a Bach aria and in one of the motets. Music Review: An Exploration of the World That Made Bach and That Bach Remade 2011-05-17T21:41:23Z

Yet time and again Bach has restored text that was far from clearly missing, or has changed perfectly plausible sounding, but in fact unattested, wording to the standard Lutheran rendering. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

In addition to being a dedicated bibliophile, Scheide was a musician and musicologist; his library contains autographed music manuscripts by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and Wagner. Princeton Receives a $300 Million Gift of Rare Books 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Perhaps, if he were living in Leipzig today, Bach would be composing experimental electronic dance music. Next Stop: In Leipzig, the Arts Scene Is Thriving 2010-07-02T15:02:00Z

The organist Paul Jacobs once played all of Bach’s organ works – more than 200 pieces – in an 18-hour marathon. A Bach Organ Marathon Set for St. Peter's in Manhattan 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

We now find inherent in Brahms and Bach other roots that led to some of the greatest musical innovations. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

His Beethoven concerts were capped with whole Bach partitas, and here you almost expected him to add “Carnaval” or the “Abegg” Variations. Music Review: Big Picture in Schumann Vignettes 2010-10-27T22:14:00Z

And on Dec. 27, the Russian pianist Katya Grineva will play a selection of Bach, Tchaikovsky and other greats in “A Classical Holiday.” A Guide to New York Holiday Events: Trains, Nutcrackers and a 79-Foot Tree 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Los Angeles Baroque Players The period-instrument ensemble plays pieces by Bach, Telemann, et al. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 29-Nov. 5: Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and more 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

She recorded a best-selling album of cerebral solo Bach as a high-schooler, and Hahn has more recently revitalized the contemporary violin repertoire by commissioning inventive encore pieces from 27 international composers. In a concert of old and new, Hilary Hahn enchants 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

There’s no question: Johann Sebastian Bach was one serious overachiever. Multimedia Tafelmusik concert immerses audience in Bach’s creative cycle 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

And at home, Richie’s grandmother, Adelaide Foster, who played piano and taught Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Lionel Richie can’t slow down, and we’re all the richer for it 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Fresh arrangements of Bach’s music have been a booming industry for ages, especially among musicians whose instruments or ensembles Bach did not use. Music Review: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra at Zankel Hall ? Review 2011-11-21T23:08:19Z

Aligning the classical sounds of Bach with the stuffiness of the Old World is a typical gesture in historical musicals, notes the musicologist Elissa Harbert, whose research focuses on musical dramatizations of American history. ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Bach at One, the flagship series of Trinity Wall Street’s music program at St. Paul’s Chapel, which was suspended in January, returned on Monday afternoon in a modest way. ArtsBeat: Bach at One Series Returns in New York 2012-03-06T17:39:01Z

A proper assessment of this document renders absurd any notion that Bach was a progressivist or a secularist. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Friday was evidence that, even during a period of transition, the Washington Bach Consort can still produce diverting musical entertainments. Review | Washington Bach Consort gives a cheerful performance fit for spring 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

He took piano lessons for eight years, at his mother’s insistence, but the only thing he could successfully play, he said, was Bach’s Minuet in G. Chuck Stewart, Jazz Photographer, Dies at 89; You’ve Seen His Album Covers 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Bach also figures prominently in the festival program. Classical & Opera Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Bach handwriting experts have identified the vast majority of these verbal entries as “definitely Bach” or “probably Bach.” Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

That was before Bach’s cantatas, Haydn’s and Handel’s and Monteverdi’s operas, and in general the music of the 17th, 16th, 15th and earlier centuries, became part of the living repertory.” Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

His approach to Bach’s music emphasized the emotional core within its rational precision and dancing rhythms, even while retaining the transparency of historically informed performance. Review: A Violinist Connects the Dots From Bach to the Present 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

He was also associated for many years with the Bach Choir, a storied amateur group of more than 200 voices, based in London. Sir David Willcocks, Conductor Who Influenced British Choral Music, Dies at 95 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Bach was a prolific composer and an important pedagogue, a significant influence on Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One) 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

"Most cellists... would tell you that the Bach suites are the ultimate mountain to climb," she says. Weilerstein brings Dvorak to Proms 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Johann Sebastian Bach was both the scion and the father of musicians: Four of his 20 children became significant composers. Review: A Rare Showcase for Bach. His Sons, That Is. 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

The ensemble presented all of Bach’s more than 200 cantatas, as well as works by other baroque composers, went on three international tours and released several recordings. J. Reilly Lewis, organist, choral director and Bach authority, dies at 71 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Describing the sensational success of the “Switched-On Bach” recording in 1968, Mr. Elie says that the album used the popularity of Bach to promote the synthesizer, not the other way around. Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z

By and large, when pianists play Bach or Handel, you don’t want to hear an imitation of the harpsichord, much less with Brahms. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

His large output of recordings ranged from the unaccompanied sonatas and partitas of JS Bach to the two concertos by Belá Bartók and that by Alban Berg. Josef Suk obituary 2011-07-08T19:20:03Z

The complex score is lush and rich with colours: lyrical, mad, sometimes jazzy, sometimes evoking Bach in its architecture. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z

Here Mozart seems to discover his inner Bach. Review: At Mostly Mozart, Joshua Bell Plays a Rejiggered Bach Novelty 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Another was Saint-Saëns’s Janus-like creative identity: he helped to revive interest in Bach and Mozart through performance and emulation, but he also gave premieres of Liszt’s works and borrowed from them freely. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z

Light and lean, they functioned like palate cleansers in between the gloriously rich Bach motets. Together, the Sebastians and Tenet Perform Motets 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Mark Swed took in a pair of Bach performances — in the course of a single day. Essential Arts & Culture: A 2017 rewind, lots of 'Nutcracker' and Bach, art and selfie marketing 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Riding Into Carnegie Hall on a Masterpiece by Bach Piano competitions are often criticized for favoring empty virtuosity over originality and introspection. Music Review: The Honens Winner Minsoo Sohn Performs at Zankel Hall 2012-10-09T22:01:37Z

Although these are harder to evaluate, physicists at the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory have concluded through ink analysis that “with high probability, Bach was also responsible for the underlinings and marginal marks.” Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Where Bernstein hears Gould instead of Bach, he himself attempts, now as a teacher and formerly as a performer, to realize the intentions of the composer as he perceived them. A Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

“We are after all the nation of Bach, and people want to support the great organ tradition associated with him.” Once Top Musicians, Organists See Loss of Relevance 2014-04-25T19:57:41Z

A Bach organ work is a thing of surpassing beauty and complexity. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

It's a great time to be a Bach aficionado in Seattle. All the stars align for a stirring St. Matthew Passion at SSO 2014-02-22T20:45:27Z

We start the tech rehearsal with the dancers in costume for the Bach piece, “Preludes and Fugues.” Twyla Tharp’s Premiere Week: The Stage Ship Sails 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

He was also widely known through his more than 150 recordings, including one of Bach’s six suites for solo cello for which he won a Grammy Award in 1998. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z

So unanswerable are these questions that heaven's perfection is perhaps better conveyed through metaphor or music—the poetry of Dante or Emily Dickinson or the oratorios of Bach. 2009-12-11T19:09:00Z

Yet Papa Bach still towers, not just over his sons but over the whole history of music. Music Review: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Performs at Zankel Hall 2014-04-09T20:18:43Z

Philharmonic and serves as featured soloist for Bach’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Weekend Picks for Jan. 11-15: 'I Am My Own Wife,' ‘PST: Live Art LA/LA,' MLK Day and more 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

They’re featured in this program of Bach Double Harpsichord Concertos as part of this popular chamber series. Classical and opera performances to watch for this fall 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

But entering an oversize plumbing fixture to commune with classic modern art is like hearing Bach played by a man wearing a clown suit. Critic’s Notebook: Amsterdam’s New Stedelijk Museum 2012-12-23T20:27:43Z

This stage musical, for which Turner and her second husband, Erwin Bach, are credited as executive producers, is truer but blurrier. Review: The ‘Tina’ Musical Is One Inch Deep, Mountain High 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

If he wasn't writing music, Bach was obsessively studying it, playing it, revising it, looking at what other musicians were doing. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

Afterwards, in the late Prom, a sequence of Bach and austere late Stravinsky provided the perfect palate-cleanser. Proms 24 & 25: BBCSSO: London Sinfonietta 2010-08-05T10:57:00Z

Those who relish the group’s fiery recordings of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos will thrill to a performance of the Fourth. Classical Music to Come: A Finnish Star, Minimalism and Wagner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The title of the program was borrowed from the alluring final work performed: “Immortal Bach,” by Mr. Nystedt, a Norwegian composer who died in 2014. Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Least pleasing was the opening Bach work, the first French suite, best in the slow sarabande and second minuet, where he added complex embellishments on the repeats. Pianist Christopher Taylor cranks the bombast dial a little too high 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Concerns about anachronism and performance practice were dispelled as Bach worked his magic. Kammerorchester Basel/Schr?der/Hewitt 2010-05-25T21:00:00Z

Ms. Bach developed her program in conjunction with oncologists, integrative medicine doctors and other wellness specialists. At These Hotels and Spas, Cancer Is No Obstacle to Quality Care 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

And Bach framed the evening, as well, starting with the robust, colorful, fluid Sinfonia from Cantata 29, and ending with a single encore, Bach’s A Minor fugue BWV 543, as an emphatic close. Paul Jacobs brings thundering drama in a calm package 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

And Bach certainly would never have heard Arabic being widely spoken, as it is now, in the bustling, largely immigrant neighborhood of Neustadt. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

He will also, however, speak about Bach as a composer and organist between segments throughout the day. A Bach Organ Marathon Set for St. Peter's in Manhattan 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

From the Venetian masters to Bach or Handel to Mozart, Beethoven or Brahms ... they all improvised. At 'Structured Impulse,' expect the unpredictable 2012-02-02T21:16:07Z

Bach wrote the 30-variation set for harpsichord, an instrument most notable for transparency, delicacy and agility. Organist Brink Bush brings out the best of Bach 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

The music is Bach, the words mainly about the spirit versus the flesh; yet Mr. Morris’s art is never that antagonistic to the body. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group’s ‘Gloria’ and ‘Jesu, Meine Freude’ 2012-06-24T21:28:00Z

And if you don’t know Bach’s spectacular and wonderfully compact Magnificat, you’re in for a second huge treat. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

Though he sounded tired and muddy in two Bach arias, Tines was radiantly powerful in “Mass,” his voice careening from airy to rock-solid in Moses Hogan’s “Give Me Jesus.” In a Jam-Packed Weekend at Ojai, a Musical Family Gathers 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Podger’s warm, clean sound, stenciled phrasing and rhythmic vivacity in this program of works by Bach, Tartini and Biber showed why she has become one of the leading performers on Baroque violin. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

With its Bach, Revisited series, the Miller Theater at Columbia University says it seeks to prompt a dialogue between contemporary composers and this Baroque master. Review: Bach, Revisited Series Features Ensemble Signal 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

The Bach begins with a rising four-note phrase that in just a few chords wrenches the music from its key. Jurowski Leads London Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Throughout a program of Bach, Gluck and Jean-Féry Rebel, the group played with crispness and verve. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW at Zankel Hall 2012-12-05T05:03:07Z

Steven Bach, a former executive vice president at United Artists, documented the production in the 1999 book "Final Cut: Art Money and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate." 'Deer Hunter,' 'Heaven's Gate' director Michael Cimino dies 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z

World Athletics President Seb Coe sent a letter to Bach saying that holding the Olympics in July “is neither feasible nor desirable.” Olympic committee considers delaying Tokyo Games 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

The has developed a yearly tradition of including a program that puts the career of Johann Sebastian Bach — who for many is still Baroque music entire — into context with the work of his predecessors. Music Review: Before Bach Arrived, Others Led the Way 2011-08-05T22:37:21Z

Crawford selected a recording of the great guitarist Andrés Segovia playing the Allemande from Bach’s Lute Suite in E minor. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Bach, a keyboard and organ virtuoso, also played the violin professionally at the Weimar court as a young man, and later in his career he often performed as violinist with the ensembles he led. Into the Music: Jennifer Koh to Play Bach?s Partitas and Sonatas 2011-10-23T03:39:15Z

Instead of trying to invent a female Bach in prior centuries, let’s seek her in the present. The Search for Mrs. Bach 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

He opened with Bach’s French Suite No. 5 in G in an exquisite performance that found a judicious balance between lyrical freedom and articulate, dancelike tempos and touch. Music Review: Cyprien Katsaris at the International Keyboard Festival 2012-07-17T22:20:52Z

When 12 dancers had charged through the 45-minute "Preludes and Fugues" during a studio run-through at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in Manhattan, the dance located hope, terror, romance, solace and mystery within Bach's rigorous music. Twyla Tharp is marking her 50-year anniversary by looking ahead 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

They were like, You have to write a Bach fugue. Cosmic Stories: Du Yun Revisits Her Earliest Music Theater 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

And the rhythmic and harmonic quirkiness of the two Contredanses made the sprightliest movements in the Bach, Handel and Muffat works sound staid. Music Review: Juilliard415 at Peter Jay Sharp Theater - Review 2011-10-17T22:12:13Z

There are efforts that try to teach machines to write music, even in the style of Bach. Swapping Songs With Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

Rather than riffs on Billings, the only sustained sonic reference to an 18th-century composer in “Hamilton” is to a European, Johann Sebastian Bach. ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Janitsch’s spacious Sonata da Camera in G minor, altogether sweeter and less densely scored than the Bach, made room for Suzuki’s broad phrasing. Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

For Bach, it must have been more compelling to create his own kind of ritualized theater than to write an opera, which, in comparison, may have struck him as too ordinary. Berlin Philharmonic Performs 'St. Matthew Passion' at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

The one thing, here, to mystify Bach was the harpsichord itself. Instrumental mayhem in the name of Bach: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and company 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

He performed three Bach works, starting with the French Suite No. 5 in G. “Bach is always happy in G major,” he said, the key representing “life, joy, contentment.” Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

I had listened to recordings of Holly Hunter, who played Ada, performing Bach and Brahms and thought she'd be best suited to reflective, lyrical music – and useless at the usual Michael Nyman-type stuff. How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano 2012-07-30T17:30:44Z

It wasn’t Bach’s night, but there was enough rejoicing in Beethoven to go around for every land. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

In a broadside at fellow musicians, he said that some were sidelining Bach into "a rarefied and effete ghetto" while others were turning "philosophical masterpieces" into "shallow showpieces". Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z

The beginning of the work, in particular, is awash in chorales, fugues, agitated crowd scenes and narratives obviously modeled on Bach. Music Review: Tritle Leads Oratorio Society in ?Paulus? 2010-05-11T22:12:00Z

He is eager to delve into composers he has yet to perform publicly, like Bach and Debussy, as well as concertos by Bartok and Liszt. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

In a recent interview posted on Vimeo, the pianist held forth eloquently and sometimes mischievously about his connection to Bach. 'Clavier' Redux: András Schiff brings Bach's masterpiece to Benaroya 2012-10-10T22:23:03Z

But as it turned out, Mr. Zimmermann’s performance of Berg’s Violin Concerto, which followed it, was so deeply involving and thoroughly moving that when it ended, you had all but forgotten about the Bach. Music Review: Alan Glibert and Frank Peter Zimmermann on Violin - Review 2011-10-06T19:56:57Z

This was also Bach with an almost jazzy character. Igor Levit, the best Russian pianist you haven't heard...yet 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Bach’s Organ Sonata No. 4, pealing yet contained, and superb. Review: A Pianist Explores Mozart the Late Bloomer 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Marsh’s December concert presented four of the six cantatas of Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio”; Patrick Rucker, in The Washington Post, called him “a superb choral conductor, energetic and precise.” Perspective | Early music, fresh start: A new leader for Washington Bach Consort 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

“Youth” pairs a Bach oratorio with footage of horses cantering through the snow of a Muscovite suburb. Anne Imhof, Dancing in the Ruins 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

With works that celebrated new beginnings and the glory of music, the Washington Bach Consort opened its 41st season, and a new era, on Sunday afternoon. Review | Bach Consort celebrates new year, new leader 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

It continued with “My Funny Valentine,” one of her signature pieces, conceived as a semiclassical fantasia incorporating fragments of Bach and lofted over a platform of Mr. Leonhart’s delicately bowed bass. Music Review: Barbara Carroll at 54 Below 2012-09-10T23:43:30Z

Paul Klee, an amateur violinist, adored Mozart; Lyonel Feininger, who created the woodcut cathedral that accompanied Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus manifesto in 1919, was known to play Bach fugues, and wrote some of his own. At the Bauhaus, Music Was More Than a Hobby 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

The tenth organist entered: Griffin McMahon, a Juilliard student, bearded, buttoned effortfully into a suit jacket—Jack Black as Jack Bach. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

A recovering one: she took Derbyshire to a local drop-in centre, the Basement Recovery Project, where a fellow addict played Bach on the piano and people talked about denial, resentment, optimism, gratefulness. Rewind radio: Victoria Derbyshire; Tony Livesey – review 2013-03-09T22:50:01Z

But Sunday happened to be a special Bach day. Bach times two: Collegium and Master Chorale double the elation 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Q: Of course you don't play only Bach - though you play these suites a lot. Wispelwey: Loneliness of the long-distance cellist 2013-01-31T11:21:34Z

The modern interest in Bach began in the 20th century, and Dudamel offered two extremes of that interest. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

When he was in the studio, classical music played: Bach, Mozart and Rachmaninoff were among his favorites. Footsteps: In Pennsylvania, Exploring Wyeth’s World 2013-05-24T17:13:58Z

Last November, as part of Town Hall's annual TownMusic series curated by Roman, the Oklahoma native and 2011 TED Fellow played, in a single concert date, all six cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach. TownMusic series kicks off with night of piano trios 2012-09-06T20:25:09Z

“Suite” is for a man alone onstage with a cellist, who plays movements from Bach’s cello suites. Goodbye to All That Blaze: Joaquin De Luz Dances His Farewell 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Just before his father commences his determined performance of Bach, Jack prays in his bedroom. The Oscars: A. O. Scott on the Musical Movement of ?The Tree of Life? 2011-12-31T02:20:50Z

In time it came to be recognized as one of the country’s premier baroque-music ensembles, with an emphasis on historically authentic performances on instruments from Bach’s era. J. Reilly Lewis, organist, choral director and Bach authority, dies at 71 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

His compositions were admired by his contemporaries — they even caught the ear of Bach — but not often played. Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum Perform a Mass 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

The controversy stems from whether her interpretations of Bach are period-authentic. Pianist Simone Dinnerstein brings her brand of Bach to Seattle 2011-01-06T22:08:07Z

She is also touring with a Bach and Beyond series in which she juxtaposes the solo Bach works with 20th- and 21st-century pieces, some written for the occasion. Music Review: Jennifer Koh at the American Academy of Arts and Letters - Review 2011-10-25T22:11:59Z

With a concert of motets by five composers named Bach, the Washington Bach Consort honored its namesake’s birthday Sunday afternoon at the National Presbyterian Church. Marking Johann Sebastian’s birthday with a tribute to the Bach family 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

And oh, right, the music: Did the thorny debate over the proper way to perform Bach play a role? A Firing and a Question of Race Roil the Oregon Bach Festival 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

He taught in the musicology department at Cornell University before he began independently researching hundreds of vocal compositions by Bach that were little known and rarely played. William H. Scheide, 100, Philanthropist, Is Dead 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

But Bach’s set of 30 variations, surrounded by two iterations of an Aria of music-box simplicity, is written with such austerity that it’s something of a blank canvas. Lang Lang, Piano Thunderer, Greets Bach’s Austere ‘Goldbergs’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

It was at Juilliard that he developed his alter ego, P. D. Q. Bach, the illegitimate twenty-second son of J. S. Bach. Philip Glass’ first lessons: Behind the scenes at Juilliard with a soon-to-be modern master 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Among the exhibits on display at the Royal Academy of Music during its centenary tribute to the violinist Yehudi Menuhin is a single page of a Bach violin sonata. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Her fine partners in the Bach included Patrick Williams, flutist, and Bryan Anderson, harpsichordist. Music Review: Joan Tower Is Showcased at Miller Theater 2014-04-20T20:29:13Z

Purcell, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel … baroque, basically, though Howard's not going to call it that. Howard Goodall's Story of Music; Being Human; Borgen – TV review 2013-02-04T07:00:06Z

“For Violin Alone” is also based on Bach’s forms, this time a complete partita. Jennifer Koh’s Bach and Beyond Part III for Violin 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Rota, best known for his classic scores to Fellini films, wove bits by other composers from Bach to Carmine Coppola into “The Godfather.” Review: New York Philharmonic Accompanies ‘On the Waterfront’ and ‘The Godfather’ 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

On Saturday evening, as part the Miller Theater’s series Bach and the Baroque, the excellent vocal ensemble Tenet took a different tack at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin near Times Square. Music Review: An Exploration of the World That Made Bach and That Bach Remade 2011-05-17T21:41:23Z

In short, Bach, in his unswerving religious conservatism, was living and working very much at odds with the progressivist currents of his day, and ours. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

In the middle of one conversation, the architect suddenly popped out of his chair, walked over to a Steinway and started to play a Bach toccata. Rafael Viñoly, From the Drawing Board to the Keyboard 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

Assistant conductor and keyboard artist, Washington Bach Consort. From players, pipes and pedals, a celestial song 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

It toys with arcane ideas across seven movements, and with a summarizing “Epilogue” it’s more unified than any of Bach’s suites. Jennifer Koh’s Bach and Beyond Part III for Violin 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

The Chamber Music Society has long given performances of Bach’s “Brandenburg” Concertos during the holiday season, and now that’s expanded into a larger Baroque project. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

But Thursday afternoon brought the evergreen: the first part of a two-day survey of Bach’s six “Brandenburg” Concertos, by the Chamber Players of the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, at St. Paul’s Chapel. Music Review: ‘Brandenburg’ Concertos at St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-12-28T23:48:01Z

It also takes time to ruminate on everything from friendships and books to meals and caregivers and the music of Bach. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

The multicultural dance troupe presents a varied program that includes the West Coast premiere of "Imprint/Maya," celebrating poet Maya Angelou, plus pieces set to the music of Bach, Vivaldi and Stevie Wonder. From Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to the L.A. Ballet, it's a spring full of dance performances 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

It evokes Bach’s form and craft but not his sustained intensity. Music Review: ‘The Gospel According to the Other Mary,’ by John Adams 2012-06-01T21:51:19Z

In view of the fact that almost all the private notations come well after the public compositions, Bach obviously subscribed to the sentiments expressed in his vocal music. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The Washington Bach Consort will present an Easter Prelude on March 29, and in early May, the museum will host an inaugural Festival of Choirs competition. The Museum of the Bible expands programming to attract more repeat visitors 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Then Ma, far from any major concert hall and hundreds of miles from his home in Cambridge, Mass., stood with his cello propped up by its endpin and played a Bach Sarabande. Yo-Yo Ma Is Finding His Way Back to Nature Through Music 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

The case for Bach transcriptions rests on Bach’s own habit of transferring works from one instrument to another. Rearranging Ideas About Alternate Arrangements 2010-06-11T14:18:00Z

After making his Carnegie Hall debut in the 1956 recital, which featured Bach, Hindemith and Shostakovich, he played there again at 15 and at 17. Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

The result surpasses even the expectations raised by the Bach Passions, or at least it did during Saturday night’s performance at the Philharmonie here. Review: Berlin Philharmonic’s ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ Boldly Stretches Boundaries 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

Anderson finds a stylistic sweet spot in this piece, which simultaneously hints at hoedowns, Vivaldi concertos, Bach toccatas and bebop. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hahn’s Bach is as earnest as ever, yet naturally wiser. Hilary Hahn Returns to Bach, 21 Years Older. And Maybe Wiser. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

This weekend’s concert concentrates on percussion, with composers including Bach and Steve Reich. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 11-17 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

A Bach adagio was played by Mr. Redman and Mr. Grenadier, in an austere reduction of counterpoint. Music Review: Joshua Redman at Town Hall 2013-06-06T21:53:18Z

But the other composer who hovered over his work was Bach. Review: Piotr Anderszewski Goes for Dim Lights and Intimacy at Carnegie Hall 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

We introduced Jaws, and Barbara Bach isn’t exactly a terrible strain to look at. Roger Moore on Why Daniel Craig Is the Best James Bond Ever and What 007 Role He’s Dying to Play 2012-11-09T13:00:14Z

Partly, that's because the view that Bach provided the platform on which Beethoven built, thus paving the way for Brahms, classic and Romantic all in one, is over. In praise of ? Brahms 2011-08-18T22:21:21Z

Bach, Vivaldi was a leading composer of operas and sacred music as well. Dmitry Sinkovsky plays violin, sings and conducts as part of Vivaldi project at Seattle Symphony 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Because in Bach’s keyboard music the structure is visible, the same way in really good modern architecture form just follows function. Swapping Songs With Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

So there is inevitably an element of special pleading when works by other members of the Bach dynasty are performed. Music Review: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Performs at Zankel Hall 2014-04-09T20:18:43Z

If Bach’s suites fascinate him, it is partly because they exploit the cello’s capacities more satisfyingly than any other music has. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

He was buoyant, opening with one of Bach’s most overtly jubilant cantatas and ending with what the conductor described as the most joyous symphony ever written, Beethoven’s Seventh. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the last great composers of the baroque era, while his sons were contributors to the rapidly developing classical style, brought to maturity by Haydn and Mozart. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra does the Bach family proud 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Their enlightening “Prism” albums trace lines from Bach’s fugues to late Beethoven and works of the 20th century. One Night, Several String Quartet Premieres 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Bach was also the inspiration for Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124,— which opens with a chaconnelike movement — and Baráti turned in a reading that was almost painful in its intensity of feeling. Review: In a violinist’s high-wire act, virtuoso Kristóf Baráti transfixes 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

In recent years, audiences were treated to his buttery voice and inimitable artistry, born of profound philosophical reflection but utterly unaffected in delivery, in music by Bach, Schumann and Schubert. Christian Gerhaher: From His Voice to Your Ears 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Another project is "Baby Got Bach," a music series aimed at 3- to 6-year-olds. At SSO: Adams' 'Doctor Atomic Symphony' 2011-12-29T21:18:04Z

And how, more precisely, did the Bach half relate to the Gordon half? Music in Review: Performances by Sasha Cooke, Escher String Quartet and Ensemble Signal 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

The unifying theme of the evening was Bach, but there wasn’t a single piece entirely by that composer on the program. Review | Noseda ends his NSO season with 3 B’s, and a bang 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

For Handel, as for Bach, that theologically indispensable miracle rather than the birth of Jesus represented Christianity’s essence. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Bach’s work holds its own with those scores, especially the urgent, compact and stormy first movement. Review: A Rare Showcase for Bach. His Sons, That Is. 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Nowhere in Bach’s music or Calov notations are these sentiments contradicted. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

From Jan. 21 to 25, the Palace will host an Early Music Festival, kicked off by a performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor led by the conductor Philippe Herreweghe. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

The piano as an instrument was not much more than a gleam in a builder's eye when Bach died, but the word "clavier" encompasses all the keyboard instruments. Bach in the hands of a master: András Schiff in Seattle 2012-10-16T15:20:05Z

For me, his work stands with Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Ellington and Stravinsky in achieving that rare fusion of heart and mind. Ennio Morricone Was More Than Just a Great Film Composer 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

In many ways, that has to do with Ms. Dinnerstein’s approach to the Bach, one that Ms. Tanowitz described as “holistic.” Who’s Afraid of ‘Goldberg Variations’? Not This Choreographer. 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

I would often think about the stuff that I learned about in comp class like, “Can I do Bach counterpoint?” or “Can I do a little musique concrète-y stuff and treat them as Stockhausen might?” The Creator of ‘Radiolab,’ a Lapsed Composer, Returns to Music 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

In an interview, Darius said that his father had a shelf full of music theory books, and kept the scores of Bach and Shostakovich preludes and fugues next to his piano for reference. A Dave Brubeck Cantata Boasts Star Soloists: His Sons 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

The result, backed by string bass and drums, was a 1963 album, released as “Jazz Sébastien Bach” in France and “Bach’s Greatest Hits” in the United States. Ward Swingle, Who Made Classical Music Jazzy, Dies at 87 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

But Bach's greatest glory is in the ways his richest music moves beyond profound suffering and salvation. L.A. Master Chorale brings sense of community to 'St. Matthew' Passion 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

“Bach sought to show everything he knew about writing unbelievable counterpoint,” says Stern. Seattle Phil concert focuses on late works by the greats 2013-01-10T22:01:56Z

Los Angeles Children’s Chorus The ensemble is joined by soprano Susan Graham and members of the LA Phil for seasonal favorites by Bach, Vivaldi, et al.; for ages 6 and up. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Nov. 26-Dec. 3: Hilary Hahn, Handel's 'Messiah' and more 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z

Bach Vespers with Magnificat and other works; Bach Soloists and Players, on period instruments. Music, From the Amens to the Fa-La-La-La-Las 2013-12-12T23:42:21Z

I didn’t think too much about it until, at 20 or so, I discovered the music of the Renaissance and the Baroque, and particularly that of Bach. 500 Years Later, the Reformation Is Still Creating Music 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

Bach at Leipzig The young German composer competes for a position as a church organist in Itamar Moses' historical farce. L.A. theater openings, March 13-20: 'Once' and more 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

In recent months, Wachner has emerged as one of three finalists to serve as the next artistic director of the renowned Oregon Bach Festival. Trinity Church’s Conductor Put on Leave Amid Investigation 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

It's taken from a 1911 book by composer Arnold Schoenberg, in which he illuminates the harmonic language of Mahler, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart and Bach. John Adams to conduct own 'Harmonielehre,' Beethoven's 'Emperor' with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z

The fashion for making big orchestral arrangements of Bach peaked in the first half of the 20th century, and then gradually disappeared as the early music movement got underway. Proms 38 & 39: Bach Day 2010-08-15T12:09:00Z

Bach played a bit later is still in use today. From players, pipes and pedals, a celestial song 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Gift shop find: No gift shop at the moment, but grab a free postcard of the Bach House from a stack in the living room. On the trail of Frank Lloyd Wright in Illinois and Wisconsin 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

In Shanghai, he practiced Bach and Mozart on the violin to the sound of artillery fire. Edgard Varèse’s Protégé Chou Wen-chung, Going Strong at 91 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

“They broke him down,” said Debra Schmidt Bach, a curator of the show. A Jewish Exodus to a New Nation 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Bach gets his own backing track, and what Kennedy does to the Double Concerto is anyone's business. Nigel Kennedy: Recital – review 2013-04-13T23:05:50Z

But in this case, Bach does not even specify an instrument or group of them. Review: Angela Hewitt Decodes Bach’s ‘The Art of Fugue’ 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Conroy set down his experiences in “The Water Is Wide,” a book he originally intended to self-publish but submitted to a New York agent, Julian Bach, at the urging of a friend. Pat Conroy, Author of ‘The Prince of Tides’ and ‘The Great Santini,’ Dies at 70 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

But the piece is also a homage to Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. On the Mattress for ‘Sleep,’ an 8-Hour Lullaby 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

“J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation” illustrates how the genius didn’t work alone — someone made his paper, his candles, his instruments. Multimedia Tafelmusik concert immerses audience in Bach’s creative cycle 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

The structure, counterpoint and harmony of the sonata allude to Beethoven, Bach and Hindemith; the percussive drive shows the influence of Prokofiev. Classical Recordings: Sebastian Currier: Piano Sonata, Other Works ? CD Review 2011-12-22T15:26:52Z

I’ve often wondered how taken aback Corelli, Bach, Schubert, Wagner, Stravinsky and other composers would be by the alien visions he married to their scores in mysterious but uplifting harmony. Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

At the same time, I delved into the Passions of Bach, which, in their godlike way, at once stand apart from the contemporary world and encompass it entirely. Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

The allusion to Bach forms one of the starting points for English Touring Opera's new production: director James Conway prefaces the opera with Bach's cantata Christ Lag in Todesbanden, with its comparable emphasis on mortality. The Emperor of Atlantis – review 2012-10-09T16:49:30Z

The rare opportunity to hear the excellent Japanese Bach Collegium, so familiar from recordings, live and in the responsive acoustics of Tully Hall was most welcome. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

In his college years, Mr. Harnoncourt and fellow students played through arias from the Bach cantatas and much else, realizing in the process that “the performers in Bach’s time used different instruments.” An Austrian Maestro’s Career, Seen Through His Recordings 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

“But you could say the same thing about Bach, in some ways.” A Composer’s ‘Travel Guide’ to His Family’s Unspoken Past 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Shortly after Bach’s statement, the Canadian Olympic Committee said it won’t send teams to the Olympics unless the Games are postponed by a year. Olympic committee considers delaying Tokyo Games 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Escaich uses snippets of the Bach as motifs in his new piece. Review: With Bach as a Catalyst, Thierry Escaich’s Lavish Concerto 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stein, as associate organist and chorus master of Trinity Wall Street, also directed the Bach at One concert, this time from the positive organ. Review: Bach at St. Paul’s, and the Fictional Relative, P.D.Q., at Town Hall 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Piotr Anderszewski Enigmatic, unpredictable but never ever dull, the Polish pianist frames his own arrangement of delectable rare Schumann, the Six Canonic Etudes for pedal piano, with another of his specialities, Bach's English Suites. The best classical concerts for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z

“I would call this an adventure because this is one of my first times in this area of Bach repertoire. It’s fresh ground for Seattle Symphony.” SSO, Pacific MusicWorks each to put on a Bach Passion 2014-02-20T19:58:01Z

Then it was back to St. Paul’s at 5 for another Twelfth Night program, the Helicon Foundation’s “Inspiring Bach.” Review: Bach at St. Paul’s, and the Fictional Relative, P.D.Q., at Town Hall 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Merging classical music with pop culture is reminiscent of early 20th century cartoons, notably Walt's Disney's "Fantasia," which featured music by Bach, Schubert and Stravinsky. Video game music comes to the orchestra concert hall 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

What if a lost Bach cantata were found that had a text so anti-Semitic that it was not appropriate for performance? The worst of Bach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Bach left no final manuscripts of the set, if it even was meant to be a set. Academy of Ancient Music takes on Bach in Disney Hall debut 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The big choral works are pretty unmissable too - Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, Elgar's Apostles, Bach's Mass in B Minor, Bernstein's Mass, and… I could go on. Proms 2012: my opera highlights 2012-07-13T13:47:44Z

Avid P. D. Q. Bach followers, and there were many, knew the routine cold. Peter Schickele Brings P.D.Q Bach Back to the Stage 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Saunier takes phrases from Deerhoof songs  and arranges them intriguingly —  bass for instance, doing something in the style of a Bach solo cello suite. Chicago-based Dal Niente pops up in new L.A. music series called Poolhouse 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Bach's Christmas Oratorio, for example, was not specifically composed for Christmas, but assembled from his earlier secular scores. The music that makes Christmas 2010-12-16T23:30:00Z

Columbia Records was hoping to cash in on the success of the 1968 album “Switched-On Bach,” a synthesizer take on the classical composer, but it wasn’t sure how to market the new record. He Made Kids’ Music and Albums About Lucifer. Now His Work Is a Rock Opera. 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

Those today who view religion negatively sometimes go even further and view Bach’s church cantatas as essentially instrumental concertos, with the religious texts more or less extraneous. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Following her superb release of Bach’s monumental “Art of Fugue,” the pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei turns her attention to these smaller-scale pieces, finding the drama in each miniature and rendering the set with myriad nuances. Classical Playlist: Villegas, Praetorius, and Boulez's Mozart 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

“The music is a music that Bach and Beethoven and all the greats would have loved and admired. It is so beautiful and it is also the soul of my country, Catalonia.” Yo-Yo Ma Makes His Encore a Call for Peace, With a Nod to Casals 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Since then he has found ways to adapt Bach, Beethoven, Aaron Copland and Thelonious Monk to the accordion, and makes a living teaching music and playing on advertising jingles. Showing Off the Accordion’s Hip Side 2013-06-26T21:57:23Z

The musical score switches sharply from Bach's St Matthew Passion to classic blues. The Gospel According to St Matthew – review 2013-02-28T23:00:01Z

The eclectic, audacious score — for vocal soloists, chamber orchestra, rock band — combines angular modernism, ’60s-style rock, echoes of Weill, hints of Edwardian ballads, riffs on Bach chorales and more. Classical Playlist: Bach, Haydn, Seattle Symphony and More 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

She’s a musical pioneer, a grande dame of her country’s music scene, the first person in the world to record the complete harpsichord music of Bach. A survivor’s life in music 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

So did her first album: At 17, she recorded three of Bach’s solo violin works, including the Second Partita and its infamous Chaconne, an audacious choice for a young artist. 5 Classical Music Faces to Watch This Season 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Thus, Solzhenitsyn invoked Racine, Murillo, Raphael, Bach, Beethoven and Schubert as the "spiritual foundation" of their times, though their work was known to far fewer people in their own times than in subsequent centuries. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

So it was disconcerting to hear Bachanalia open its 24th season on Wednesday night at Merkin Concert Hall with such an ineffective performance of two chorale preludes by Bach. Music Review: Bachanalia at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:21Z

Bach lived and worked in Hamburg, which was a significant musical center in the baroque and classical eras. What does this critic hear at the new Elbphilharmonie concert hall? The sound of the future 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

His music, by turns minimal and lush, incorporates an array of influences from Bach to rock to West African kora music. Ludovico Einaudi: A Classical Artist for the YouTube Age 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

“The accordion is not a chamber music instrument,” huffs the letter, written in the wake of a concert featuring a Bach sonata transcribed for cello and accordion. Chamber Music Society’s Leaders on Balancing Old and New 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Bach undoubtedly knew those models, too, and wrote with them in mind, just as he adopted French and Italian musical forms. Artek Celebrates the German Harpsichord 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

At other times, the words — so important to Bach and so lovingly set — were nearly reduced to the clicks and hisses of consonants. Together, the Sebastians and Tenet Perform Motets 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

“Glenn Gould was a genius because he could watch 12 movies at the same time, and that’s why he plays Bach so well,” said Milad.  Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z

Later this year in New York, he will collaborate with Marina Abramovic in a performance of the Bach "Goldberg Variations." Igor Levit, the best Russian pianist you haven't heard...yet 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

Catch him in intimate surroundings on Friday as he presents a delightfully rangy recital featuring solo works by Bach, Dutilleux, Carter and Kodaly. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The heroes of this book, whom Mr. Elie discusses in absorbing detail, are towering modern interpreters of Bach. Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z

“When someone asked me what Bach meant to me,” Mr. Harnoncourt once recalled of his youth, “I replied that he was a mathematician, and that this wasn’t truly great music!” An Austrian Maestro’s Career, Seen Through His Recordings 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

The Bach “Passion” stagings have shown off the best qualities of both him and the players, combining scrupulous style, individual virtuosity and theatrical momentum. The Berlin Philharmonic Comes to New York 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Thursday also happened to be the birthdays of Haydn and — according to one calendar — Bach, yet that celebratory coincidence went unmentioned. Nicholas McGegan and the L.A. Phil offer a performance for the eras in 'From Bach to Schubert' 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

He also figured prominently in debates over how music from the early modern period — such as the work of Mozart, Bach and Handel — should be played in the present day. Neville Marriner, Prolific Musician and Acclaimed Conductor, Dies at 92 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

With all the new pieces, Hahn fans also were grateful for the nobility of the Bach Violin Sonata No. 1, the exciting rush of the Beethoven Sonata No. 2, and the warmhearted Brahms "Sonatensatz." Hahn, Lisitsa mix old, new with dazzling results 2011-10-18T18:26:04Z

The poet Dana Gioia and the jazz pianist and composer Helen Sung will demonstrate how verse is linked to all kinds of music, from Bach to bop. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Bach accompanies arias with solo instruments, and Sellars persuaded the first chair players to memorize their solos and interact theatrically on stage with the singers. A passionate Sellars-Rattle triumph with Bach's 'St. Matthew' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

His last American appearance was a Bach recital at St. Thomas on June 20. John Scott, Organist and Choirmaster, Dies at 59 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

A version of this review appears in print on April 10, 2014, on page C2 of the with the headline: An Evening Full of Bach, The Father and the Sons. Music Review: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Performs at Zankel Hall 2014-04-09T20:18:43Z

“The museum celebrates artists of Philadelphia and the region,” Ms. Bach said. From Shed to Museum: Bertoia Sculpture Returns to Public Square 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

Last Tuesday a performance series called “Red Bull Flying Bach” debuted within the enormous ground floor exhibition room of the Neue Nationalgalerie. In Berlin, Break Dancing to Bach 2010-04-22T10:00:00Z

Turner and Bach have rented a home in the town of Kuesnacht, closer to the city of Zurich, for years. Tina Turner, husband snap up vast $76M estate on Lake Zurich 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

It is surely good that pianists are no longer scolded for playing Bach, Handel and other Baroque masters on their modern instruments. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

In another chapter, steely, propulsive Ligeti études frame an elegantly intricate piece from Bach’s “The Art of Fugue.” A Pianist Loses Himself in a Musical ‘Labyrinth’ 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

But the day closes with a rather less authentic nod to the master: a series of transcriptions, or reworkings, of Bach from conductor Andrew Litton and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

What was it like when Bach joined Germany’s greatest musicians to vie for a coveted job in 1722? A&E highlights: a pretty good ‘Gatsby,’ music from Monsters and beers from Bend 2013-05-08T21:37:12Z

From July 18 to Aug. 1, Carmel-by-the-Sea in California will host the 78th annual Carmel Bach Festival, focusing on the composer Johann Sebastian Bach and the musicians he influenced, such as Handel and Mozart. Wednesday’s Travel News and Tips 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

He largely avoided Germany after the war, but the most performed composers in his first decade in Boston were Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Brahms. For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Bach’s Christmas Magnificat was written in 1723 when Bach was a very busy and underpaid teacher and music director in Leipzig. 5 classical-music recommendations for Dec. 9-16 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Criticism is also growing about “a welcome reception” for Bach set for Sunday evening at the state guesthouse. Japanese composer for Tokyo Olympics apologizes for abuse 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

In this programme, spanning three and a half centuries and from Bach to Kurtág, the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera could have made no stronger a statement of their credentials. Orchestra of WNO/Koenigs - review 2011-01-23T18:22:54Z

Bach’s music, played on a harpsichord representing his time and place: as natural as this may seem, it is an infrequent event, at least in New York. Artek Celebrates the German Harpsichord 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Named after a carol by Bach, it features synthesisers replicating the sounds of warplanes and bombs. Why Kraftwerk are still the world's most influential band 2013-01-27T09:00:03Z

At a certain point, Bach and his fellow executives found themselves considering "the Cleopatra option": let the production continue uninterrupted and hope for the best. Cleopatra and Heaven's Gate: the last of the great Hollywood stinkers? 2013-07-19T13:00:00Z

“It was no longer possible to play even Bach Chorale securely — parts were unbalanced, progression from note to note insecure.” Critic?s Notebook: Dystonia, Which Struck Glenn Gould and Other Musicians 2012-03-13T22:19:34Z

The result is a soft-spoken contemporary choral work in the manner of a Bach passion. Music Review: The Crossing in ‘The Little Match Girl Passion,’ at the Met 2012-12-24T22:47:20Z

Leipzig is no stranger to music; the likes of Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Wagner all called the city home. ‘New Berlin’ or Not, Leipzig Has New Life 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

Like Bach, Ysaÿe used a wide range of expressive and technical elements in the Ballade, a showpiece that displays Mr. Bell’s virtuosity, rich tone and characterful playing to full effect. Sam Haywood and Joshua Bell at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-16T22:38:31Z

“It’s a startling moment,” David Hill, the musical director of the Bach Choir, said in a telephone interview. ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

Of course, as with Bach, that surface is inseparable from the intricate architecture that supports it. Review: Blue Heron Performs ‘Missa De plus en plus’ at Corpus Christi Church 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Pieces by Bach and Haydn seemed to show an awareness of historically informed performance practice and the sounds of both the harpsichord and the fortepiano. A young virtuoso makes his D.C. debut 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Although the choreographic rightness of “Barocco” is an illusion — Bach certainly never envisaged anything like Balanchine’s physicality — it’s a persuasive one. New York City Ballet Double Bill at Lincoln Center 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

The Bach was as fluid and swift as rushing water, and the Mozart sounded as contemporary as the Abril. A lyrical blend of new and old in Hilary Hahn and Robert Levin’s performance 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

And, as with Bach’s cello music, almost ceaseless motion here has the uncanny, unexpected effect of encouraging reflection. Kaija Saariaho: 11 Essential Works 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z