The preludes and fugues that make up Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” operate on multiple levels at once — they’re a compilation of techniques for keyboard writing, a polemic on the subject of tuning ...

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 ...

Accessibility of knowledge was crucial to the Enlightenment. That ethos was embodied in the celebrated Encyclopédie of Diderot and D’Alembert, the first of its seventeen volumes appearing in 1751, the ...

This review has been updated. See note below. András Schiff is the Master. Wednesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, he played the first book of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier.” A book it is. A Bach ...

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.

I don’t think that Sviatoslav Richter, still less Sir András Schiff, would have reminded me of Kurt Cobain at this point. Not even, maybe, Edwin Fischer, whose pioneering 1930s recordings set a ...

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 ...

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movements: C, BWV846 Andrei Gavrilov, Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer (Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, ...

Bach's "Well Tempered Clavier" gets a new treatment in a recent animation by artist Alan Warburton. You may have seen a few of these videos floating around Facebook. Various artists have been using ...

When Johann Sebastian Bach compiled the first book of the Well-Tempered Clavier in 1722, he wrote that the 24 preludes and fugues were "for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, ...

(Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movements: C, BWV870 Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Gary Cooper, Harpsichord (Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, ...