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 ...

The deliberation of the piano playing at the opening of the Sonata in B minor, BWV1014, and the way both piano and violin negotiate a little extra space between phrases, like time taken to ensure a ...

According to Kristian Bezuidenhout, “The Sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014-1019 are some of the composer’s most elusive and puzzling works… this is music that poses tantalising ...

In these works in trio sonata form, the harpsichord takes a second upper melodic line as well as the bass line. The two instruments are thus featured equally, and if you listen without paying close ...

The violinist discusses his recording of the suites, out today on Sony Classical Leonidas Kavakos's recording of the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin is newly released on Sony ...

After years of silence following an injury it seemed Kyung Wha Chung had retired. Then came a return to live recitals (her Royal Festival Hall appearance sparked headlines when she berated a noisy ...

First, the rivals listed above. Felix Ayo, one-time leader of I Musici, has recorded Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Philips on only two discs. To make this possible, he cuts most of the repeats, and ...

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