Old man Johann Sebastian Bach begat 20 children by two wives. Those that lived to adulthood turned out pretty good. Rather, it was one of the children Bach created that went bad, his last one, Die ...
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue' Les inAttendus Vincent Lhermet, Accordion Marianne Muller, Viola da gamba Alice Pierot, Baroque violin There’s a strange blend, sometimes remarkably so, to ...
A fresh look at one of Bach's most elusive masterpieces proves that this is far more than paper music. The lively Berlin early music group make the sometimes dry counterpoint burst with inventiveness ...
How string quartets engage with the musical challenges and opportunities of performing ‘old’ four-part music – whether Purcell’s Fantasias or The Art of Fugue – depends largely on how a perception of ...
Next Saturday evening (November 1), my son Sam and his brilliant colleague, pianist and harpsichordist Ralitza Patcheva, will be performing the complete “Art of the Fugue” by JS Bach in Washington DC ...