The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Pythagoras thought the cosmos was all about numbers and their relationships, an idea that always struck my liberal-arts mind as dry and cold and impossibly lacking ...

In her accompanying essay to this release (there is no specific biography), the Danish pianist Elisabeth Nielsen claims that the unifying factor in her programme of Bach, Schumann and Prokofiev is ...

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They’re called Bach’s English Suites, but no one really knows why. Bach never went to England, and the music sounds more ...

As a little girl, Rochelle Sennet saw a pianist performing on tv, thought it looked cool, and begged her parents for piano lessons. They figured she’d lose interest, as kids often do, but she showed ...

Polish-born Piotr Anderszewski is no stranger to playing Bach’s English Suites. He first recorded them more than 10 years ago. But time and experience has honed his expressive interpretations. His ...

Bruce had Bach on the brain when putting together this week's Puzzler. To get a taste of the real thing, we hear Andras Schiff play the Sarabande from Bach's English Suite No. 4.

Bach’s “English Suites” are among his most diverting music for the keyboard, where a delight in patterns and brilliant finger-work crowds out a severe contrapuntal approach. Bach’s encyclopedic ...

Internationally noted harpsichordist Carsten Schmidt continues his multi-year project of performing all of J. S. Bach’s hundreds of compositions for keyboard. This year he offers two programs of the ...

Although Zhu-Xiao Mei’s somewhat under-the-radar engagement with Bach’s keyboard output has so far encompassed the Goldberg Variations, Well-Tempered Clavier, Art of Fugue, Partitas, French Suites, ...

One of Britain's leading baroque specialists, Richard Egarr, performs a selection of Bach's English and French Suites for harpsichord live from the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh. Programme: JS Bach - ...