Latest News: Classical, Bach, J S (composer)
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Recording of the Week,
A new Bach cantata project from Les Arts Florissants 5th April 2024Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants kick off a new project aimed at retracing the steps of Bach's life - focusing on his early work in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen, still barely out of his teens.
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Interview,
Rachel Podger and Chad Kelly on reimagining Bach's Goldberg Variations 4th December 2023The violinist and composer share their thoughts on adapting Bach's immortal set of keyboard variations for Baroque instrumental ensemble.
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Recording of the Week,
A slow-brewed Goldberg Variations from Víkingur Ólafsson 6th October 2023The Icelandic pianist presents the results of twenty-five years of thoughtful preparation, in a recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations that combines control and spontaneity, limpid gentleness and furious virtuosic energy.
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Recording of the Week,
Well-tempered Bach on the clavichord from András Schiff 27th January 2023An oft-neglected early keyboard instrument finally gets its moment in the sun in an intimate programme of Bach that plays to its strengths, built around the two-part and three-part inventions.
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Interview,
Francesco Corti on Bach 10th August 2022The harpsichordist and conductor talks about the pleasures and challenges of reconstructing a harpsichord concerto from a single page of music - and how Bach's resourcefulness resonates with his own 'very Italian common-sense practical side!'.
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Recording of the Week,
Adapted and reconstructed Bach concertos from Francesco Corti and Il Pomo d'Oro 22nd July 2022Francesco Corti continues his series of Bach harpsichord concerto recordings with an album of double concertos - including his own collaborative reconstruction with Francesco Zimei of a tantalising fragment.
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Recording of the Week,
Bach's St Matthew Passion from Raphaël Pichon 15th April 2022Raphaël Pichon and his Pygmalion ensemble present a vision of Bach's masterwork that aims for clarity and immediacy over exhaustingly intense theatrics.
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Interview,
Ana de la Vega on Bach Unbuttoned 6th May 2021The Australian flautist talks about her new album of new perspectives on Bach, inspired by an intriguing detail on one of the most famous statues erected to him.
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Interview,
Emmanuel Despax on Spira, Spera 25th February 2021The pianist talks about his new album of Bach transcriptions, inspired in part by his personal reaction to the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of 2019.
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Interview,
Parker Ramsay on Bach's Goldberg Variations 29th September 2020The harpist talks about his new album, on which he performs his own arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
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Interview,
Lang Lang on Bach's Goldberg Variations 9th September 2020The superstar Chinese pianist talks about his new double recording of Bach's keyboard masterwork, and about his approach to preparing and performing Baroque repertoire.
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Interview,
Sean Shibe on Bach 18th June 2020The eloquent young Scottish guitarist talks to Katherine about his third solo album on Delphian, Pour La Luth Ò Cembal, which was recently described by The Times as 'masterful, beautiful and convincing in every way'.
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Recording of the Week,
Sean Shibe plays Bach Lute Suites 22nd May 2020The award-winning young Scottish guitarist's third solo album on Delphian sees him turn to the music of JS Bach, with a highly varied triple-bill of suites for solo lute.
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Interview,
The Well-Tempered Consort 4th February 2020Phantasm's founder, director and violist Laurence Dreyfus talks to David about the consort's new disc, exploring the polyphonic keyboard works of JS Bach in new arrangements for viols.
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Interview,
Jonathan Sells on Christmas in Leipzig 25th November 2019Jonathan Sells, artistic director of the British early music ensemble Solomon's Knot, talks to David about their début recording, featuring three consecutive musical directors at the Leipzig Thomaskirche - Johann Schelle, Johann Kuhnau and, of course, Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Interview,
Kati Debretzeni on Bach's Violin Concertos 11th November 2019Violinist Kati Debretzeni talks to David about her new recording of Bach violin concertos - originals and adaptations - with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists.
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Interview,
Antoine Tamestit on Bach 27th August 2019The viola-player talks to David about his recording of the three gamba sonatas on Stradivari’s ‘Gustav Mahler’ viola from 1672 - one of only thirteen extant violas by the legendary Cremonese luthier.
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Recording of the Week,
Mahan Esfahani plays Bach Toccatas 2nd August 2019David enjoys Mahan Esfahani's exhilarating recording of Bach's seven keyboard toccatas, BWV910-916.
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Interview,
Mahan Esfahani on Bach's Toccatas 2nd August 2019The Iranian-American harpsichordist talks to David about his new album, featuring lively accounts of the seven keyboard toccatas by JS Bach.
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Interview,
Rachel Podger on Bach's Cello Suites 9th May 2019The violinist talks to David about her new album, which sees her perform JS Bach's popular cello suites on the violin.