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Musician Chris Thile performed for the PBS NewsHour at the Rockwood Music Hall in Manhattan. Here he plays the final movement of Bach Sonata #1 in G-minor. Chris Thile is a musician consumed with ...

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At first blush, Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin played on the humble mandolin might be akin to making a Rusty Nail with single-malt scotch. A successful performance will require, at the ...

In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...

In the grim pandemic nadir of September 2020, violinist Soovin Kim stepped out on an empty stage at the New England Conservatory in Boston and performed Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas ...

This is FRESH AIR. Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin are as big a test for a violinist as his cello suites are for a solo cellist. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says there are many ...

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

The Cleveland Orchestra’s principal flute plays a 19th-century wooden instrument he found in an antique shop and repaired. Though technically inauthentic, its soft, caressing tone suits Bach. In the ...

It’s been a busy concert season for Gil Shaham. The Illinois-born violinist premiered a new concerto commissioned by the San Diego Symphony in December, David Bruce’s “Fragile Light,” and the month ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was bound to face a posthumous challenge through having had the great Johann Sebastian for a father. It's an added misfortune that his music falls between the stools of the ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of the great Johann Sebastian, didn't write much for organ. But there's such an idiosyncratically cheeky brio to what he did that it's well worth exploring. Ton Koopman ...