Tag Archives: Bach

The newest Honens International Piano Competition winner demonstrated in his Carnegie Hall debut his deep interest in musical resonances over the centuries.

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.

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.

Hamelin's magical concert program flowed from Bach-Busoni to Schumann to Chopin, with twinkling detours into the 20th century.

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.

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.