Sandra Wong made a bold claim as she held the elaborate wooden instrument, an alien-looking contraption with 16 strings and a dense thicket of white keys: “Personally, I think if Bach had known about ...
(RNS) — Ask flutists to name the greatest pieces for their instrument and high on the list will be Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Sonata in B minor” for flute and keyboard. Now believed to have been written ...
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 ...
When violinist Michelle Makarski approached her friend, the pianist Keith Jarrett about playing some Johann Sebastian Bach sonatas, recording those works wasn’t necessarily in their initial plans. In ...
This week's From the Top, hosted by pianist Peter Dugan, celebrates the various ways music has created community in the lives of the featured young artists. The episode features a strong number of ...
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 ...
Despite the title please note that Steven Isserlis plays these sonatas on a cello, not a viola da gamba. We may miss the plangent quality of the instrument of Bach and Handel’s day, but Isserlis ...
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