Tag Archives: Bach

Bach's contrapuntal masterpiece took flight in the hands of one of the world's premiere viol consorts.

All told, these are some of Bach's most compelling and beautiful works, and it's hard to imagine a finer performance than this.

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.

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.

An intriguing plunge into the many sharp and woolly possibilities of the cello in the age of electronics and genre-blending.

Ever wonder what Johann Sebastian Bach would sound like with a little '70s gloss on top? Good, actually. It sounds damn good.

Two recent albums that do new things with very old music.

Jefferson Friedman's sharply modernistic but accessible new 'The Heart Wakes Into' paired nicely with Brahms's Quintet in F minor at the Metropolitan Museum.

As the boat rocked – luckily, mostly gently – Segev gave an account of these difficult pieces that was impressive both technically and idiomatically.

"Music starts where words end," says the cellist as she prepares to record these difficult, seminal works.