This review has been updated. See note below. András Schiff is the Master. Wednesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, he played the first book of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier.” A book it is. A Bach ...

High-level human integrity seems a given when great pianists essay epics: certainly true of Elisabeth Leonskaja and Imogen Cooper tackling respective sonata trilogies by Beethoven and Schubert, or ...

This post was updated Oct. 12 at 8:35 p.m. UCLA professor David S. Lefkowitz is stretching the bounds of classical composition, taking piano music to new scales. What first started as a pandemic ...

It's the keyboard work that has lasted through the centuries - Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is the aspiring pianist's go-to text. French pianist Hélène Grimaud, showing off the nimble fingerwork in ...

Today we're delighted to bring you a film of Daniel Moult playing Bach's Prelude and Fugue in D minor BWV 539 on the Silbermann organ of St Marien, Roetha. It's taken from the forthcoming film project ...

When he was a boy, Andras Schiff labored over the tedious, repetitive finger studies that are universally loathed by aspiring pianists. He thought they were like spinach: yucky, but good for you if ...

Like all conductors, David Bernard spends much of his time imparting precise ideas about musical works to other performers, but when he contracted COVID-19, a deep dive into the Well-Tempered Clavier ...

You can’t argue with pianist Craig Nies’ musical pedigree. A longtime professor at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, Nies attended the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he ...

As another train journey in Germany begins, I slip on my headphones and let Johann Sebastian Bach slice away my mind's clutter. Returning, voluntarily, to Bach as an adult is something my teenage self ...

Some 250 years after the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, four noted classical pianists tackle the composer's "The Well-Tempered Clavier," a collection of keyboard pieces often referred to as the "Old ...