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 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook With an ear for dance and a new five-string violin, Johnny Gandelsman set out to transform a towering classic. By Joshua Barone ...
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 ...
Baroque purists and historical-performance loyalists would have left the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall with feathers ruffled on Tuesday evening after a daring Premiere Performances concert by ...
The arrangement of violin sonatas and partitas, and the cello suites of Johan Sebastian Bach for solo double bass is a tasking and rare challenge, especially for improvising bassists. Classically ...
Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: I. Adagio; Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004. Corrente; Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004. Sarabande; Elegia; Violin Partita No. 1 in B minor, ...
We'll strip away the orchestra to find just Julia Fischer, her violin, and music by Bach. From her all-Bach CD on the Pentatone Classics label, Fischer plays two movements from Bach's Partita No. 3 — ...
Miriam Fried, one of the world’s pre-eminent violinists, returns to Curtis to shepherd the students through Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin. The sonatas and partitas for ...