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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Now, instead of having no gigs she's inundated with offers to perform everywhere. Still, the mild-mannered pianist hasn't let the success get to her. She plays upscale music festivals and fancy ...

Containing his Air on a G string, Bach composed four orchestral suites, including his most famous offering, the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068. Bach wrote a total of four orchestral suites, the ...