This review has been updated. See note below. András Schiff is the Master. Wednesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, he played the first book of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier.” A book it is. A Bach ...

Pure musical inspiration as a jazz song overflows with Baroque counterpoint, with the effortless cool that could only come from Nina Simone. We know Nina Simone as an icon of 20th-century music: a ...

(18) Chorales, 'Leipzig Chorales', Movements: ~ Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Edna Stern, Piano (Das) Wohltemperierte Klavier, '(The) Well-Tempered Clavier, Movements: C minor, BWV847 Johann ...

Many people, if they wonder how music is made up, suppose that it consists of a tune and an accompaniment. The paradigmatic guitarist in front of a campfire croons the melody, while his hands create ...

When he was a boy, Andras Schiff labored over the tedious, repetitive finger studies that are universally loathed by aspiring pianists. He thought they were like spinach: yucky, but good for you if ...

Thursday night, I went to a chamber music concert and a choral concert broke out. Well, it sometimes felt that way at the first performance of this weekend’s St. Paul Chamber Orchestra program. The ...

In the last decade of his life, from 1740 to 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach abandoned the furious pace of composition he had maintained for over 30 years and concentrated his creative energies largely on ...