The famous conductor Hans von Bülow, slightly less famous as a pianist now and nearly forgotten as a composer, remains most present to modern music lovers either as the jilted husband of Cosima von ...

Piotr Anderszewski has recorded Book II of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, sort of. I’ll explain in a moment. Anderszewski is the Polish pianist born in 1969: brilliant, versatile, and individualistic.

Keith Jarrett and Johann Sebastian Bach go back a long way. Between 1722 and 1742, Bach composed two sets of preludes and fugues in all twenty-four major and minor keys, written for keyboard; the ...

It's the keyboard work that has lasted through the centuries - Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is the aspiring pianist's go-to text. French pianist Hélène Grimaud, showing off the nimble fingerwork in ...

I've just ended a year of playing Bach, and it was a no-nonsense deal. Like going hunting with your father-in-law. Every day started with a shouting match in my head. Stop! Intruder! Call the keyboard ...

When he was a boy, Andras Schiff labored over the tedious, repetitive finger studies that are universally loathed by aspiring pianists. He thought they were like spinach: yucky, but good for you if ...

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