Such was Sergei Rachmaninoff's admiration for Bach's Violin Partita in E Major, BWV 1006, that he arranged three of its seven movements — Prelude, Gavotte and Gigue — for solo piano. Bachmaninoff, if ...

Emilia Mettenbrink performs Bach's Partita in E Major for solo violin from her St. Paul balcony on Sept. 24, 2020. Mettenbrink, a member of the Minnesota Opera Orchestra, has been playing Tiny Balcony ...

Our encore bin is overflowing with great performances. Here are three: the Ensemble Zimmermann plays the finale of a CPE Bach Sinfonia in e minor, in concert in Arhus, Denmark. Then we go to Prague ...

What's in a name... or instrument? J.S. Bach wrote two versions of his Suite or Partita in E Major. The suite was written for lute and the Partita for solo violin. Sharon Isbin performs the Prelude ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Bach is at the centre of the violin repertoire, and in their latest national tour the Australian Chamber Orchestra give an insider's ...

Australian piano virtuoso Jayson Gillham presents his fourth album on ABC Classics, devoted to the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Featuring 11 of Bach’s compositions transcribed and arranged ...

Compositions for solo percussion were virtually non-existent before the 20th century, so in order to play the music of J.S. Bach, percussionists must borrow from the violin and cello repertoire. TSO ...

It is extraordinary that of over a thousand pieces written by J S Bach only about a dozen were published in his lifetime. The pieces he chose as his opus 1 – although published in 1731 when he was in ...