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 ...
Bach: Harpsichord Concertos Nos. 1-7; Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord; Brandenburg Concerto No. 5; Italian Concerto. Murray Perahia, piano and conducting the Academy of St.
Bach's glorious concertos exist in many different forms and here are some new hypothetical reconstructions. Viktoria Mullova and Ottavio Dantone offer the C minor BWV 1060 in a lively version for ...
The two great forces in J.S. Bach’s life were music and family - somewhat inevitably, for a man who had twenty children. Bach first wrote the concertos on this disc as a young composer finding his ...
No one needs to be told why “The Messiah” or “The Nutcracker” have become Christmas perennials. There are, of course, further Christmas-themed works of glory galore. It’s time we dig out Bach’s joyous ...
Jane Jones tells how Bach found a new harpsichord, a new wife and looked for a new job. At the beginning of the 18th century, all the decent music jobs were linked with either church or state, and ...
This is a very curious disc, in which a top-flight pianist seems to be indulging his nostalgia for a pre-lapsarian view of Bach - a return to a time before issues of style and period instruments ...
Isabell Faust takes a tour of Bach's violin concertos, interspersed with alternate versions of sinfonias and sonatas that have been reconstructed for the first time. This is the next instalment in a ...
Yet the look, and sound, of these six pieces “for several instruments”, rather obsequiously dedicated by the job-seeking Bach to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721, can still startle audiences. Last ...
Virtuosic, dynamic and overflowing with richly imaginative music, Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos still sound as fresh and exciting today as they must have when audiences first heard these works ...
Concerto for Violin and Strings Kati Debretzeni, Oboe John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer English Baroque Soloists Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings Johann Sebastian Bach ...
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