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 ...

Right from the opening notes the listener is thrown. Instead of measured grandeur, the Adagio of the Sonata No.1 feels rushed and restless, with almost too much to say. Violinist Gil Shaham has taken ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of the great Johann Sebastian, didn't write much for organ. But there's such an idiosyncratically cheeky brio to what he did that it's well worth exploring. Ton Koopman ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was bound to face a posthumous challenge through having had the great Johann Sebastian for a father. It's an added misfortune that his music falls between the stools of the ...