Composer Yevgeniy Sharlat takes Bach's English Suite No. 2 as a starting point, and engineers energetic rhythmic surprises, ear-catching counterpoint, and busy, angsty drama in a prismatic work of accessible modernism.
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Music Reviews: Tesla Quartet – Haydn, Ravel, Stravinksy; Amit Peled – Bach Cello Suites
The Tesla Quartet makes a strong debut with Ravel and more, while Amit Peled plays Bach's Cello Suites 1-3 on Pablo Casals' instrument.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Marc-André Hamelin at Carnegie Hall (NYC, 15 November 2018)
Hamelin's magical concert program flowed from Bach-Busoni to Schumann to Chopin, with twinkling detours into the 20th century.
Read More »Concert Review: Vox Luminis – Motets of J.S. Bach (NYC, 28 October 2018)
In the hands of a gifted group like Vox Luminis, Bach's motets exhibit the great composer's artistic genius as fully as anything else he wrote.
Read More »Concert Review: Fretwork – ‘J.S. Bach – The Art of Fugue’ (NYC, 12 April 2018)
Bach's contrapuntal masterpiece took flight in the hands of one of the world's premiere viol consorts.
Read More »Music Review: Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout – ‘J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord’
All told, these are some of Bach's most compelling and beautiful works, and it's hard to imagine a finer performance than this.
Read More »Concert Review: MasterVoices – ‘The Saint John Passion’ by Bach at Carnegie Hall (NYC 9 Feb 2017)
The soloists shone both separately and in concert, as if distilling the work of the huge chorus behind them. I didn't want the penultimate piece, "O Sleep," sung by the chorus and then the soloists in counterpoint, to end.
Read More »Concert Review: PUBLIQuartet – ‘The New Baroque’ at the Met Cloisters (NYC, 11/5/2016)
The members of this adventurous quartet proved themselves masters of tonal variation, broad technique, and compositional creativity in a fascinating program that transformed and adapted Bach and Haydn and presented modern works that nod to the Baroque.
Read More »Music Review: Maya Beiser – ‘TranceClassical’
An intriguing plunge into the many sharp and woolly possibilities of the cello in the age of electronics and genre-blending.
Read More »Music Review: Craig Leon – ‘Bach to Moog: A Realisation for Electronics and Orchestra’
Ever wonder what Johann Sebastian Bach would sound like with a little '70s gloss on top? Good, actually. It sounds damn good.
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