In 1726 - probably the earliest date allowed by the enormous demands of J. S. Bach’s official position in Leipzig for new sacred vocal music - the composer began to write a series of keyboard suites, ...

Bach’s Birthday Bash 2025 will feature Jeremy Denk performing The Complete Keyboard Partitas at Mechanics Hall. This celebration of Bach's music offers audiences a chance to experience Denk's ...

Pianist Jeremy Denk has secured his place in the pantheon of great American performers--as well as in the hearts of Berkeley audiences--through keen interpretive insight and captivating virtuosity.

Before his much-anticipated October 23 Carnegie Hall recital, of music by Bach, Beethoven, and Schumann, the magisterial Jewish American pianist Murray Perahia is releasing a new CD on Sony Classical ...

With the release of his latest three CDs, pianist Richard Goode has now recorded all six Bach Partitas for keyboard. Fred Child of Performance Today visited with Goode to talk about each one of these ...

It is doubtful that Bach ever intended all six of his keyboard Partitas to be performed at one sitting, certainly not in a public auditorium the size of Orchestra Hall. But Bach’s music has proved ...

The music world has scholarly performers and performing scholars - and then a smaller number of true multiple threats. Davitt Moroney, who teaches at UC Berkeley, is one of those. Moroney, 62, has ...

She’s working on a recording series called BACH TO BLACK, which showcases performances of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach as well as Black composers. You can hear Rochelle Sennet’s beautiful ...

Vladimir Ashkenazy's new recording of the Bach Partitas - a follow-up to his 2006 account of "The Well-Tempered Clavier" - boasts many of the familiar virtues of the pianist's youth. The playing is ...

Music Worcester presents a Bach Birthday Bash weekend in Mechanics Hall March 21-23 to celebrate J.S. Bach's 340th birthday. The weekend will consist of four concerts featuring 14 of Bach's works ...

"If you really want to have what I think is a special experience, find yourself two hours and 45 minutes during which you can listen to all six Partitas at once — just put them on, lie on the sofa or ...