Jean Rondeau's new album, 'Dynastie', is an Editor's Choice in the March 2017 issue of Gramophone. It features keyboard concertos by CPE, JC and JS Bach, as well as an arrangement of a sonata by WF ...

In these days of uncertainty, music can provide a safe haven, an escape, or even a boost of energy. I've found all of that and more in a new recording of the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the ...

There is a range of strategies for playing Bach on the piano, from the clipped and elegant to the thunderous. On this new collection of keyboard concertos, French pianist Alexandre Tharaud - a ...

A brilliant new album of bright Baroque concertos from three members of the Bach family. Album of the Week, 11 March 2013. It's well known that the Bach family were unusually talented, but it's a ...

It was an invitation from Karajan to the Salzburg Festival 20 years ago that launched the worldwide career of the Istanbul-born Pekinel twins. Turkey’s answer to the Labèque sisters are an exciting ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Sebastian’s second surviving son, is full of surprises. You only have to listen to the opening movement of his F sharp minor sonata, composed in 1744, to appreciate ...

When it comes to musical dynasties, it's tough to top the Bach family. From town fiddlers to court composers, the Bachs dominated German music for seven generations. Today, Johann Sebastian towers ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel’s music is eminently approachable, full of quirky, angular subjects which swoop in unexpectedly, with virile, bustling allegros and pensive, yearning slow movements of surprising ...